It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We are all a little excited for Christmas this year so we set up our Christmas tree a couple of weeks ago.  The kids were so excited.  Keith also did a great job hanging lights and decorating the front of our house.  I love Christmas time.

These two crack me up.  They were pretending that Caitlyn was Santa Claus.  I have to write a couple of funny things the kids have said.  We were driving in the car the other day and Caitlyn said, "mom I need a new computer for Christmas, my Little Einstein computer is a piece of crap."  Keith and I looked at each other and I asked her where she learned that.  Caitlyn replied, "from you mom, you said my bike was a piece of crap."  In my defense that was while I was trying to put her chain back on her bike after it fell off AGAIN and we were about a half a mile from home and I was in my roller blades pushing Wyatt in the stroller. The other morning Jonah came upstairs almost in tears and said, "mom I had a bad dream."  In his most pathetic voice he said, "someone gave Cailtyn a piece of pie and then they gave me a piece of pie and mine fell on the ground and then I didn't have any pie."  He almost burst into tears while he was telling me.  It was so funny.

We had a ridiculous amount of snow this morning when we woke up.  Keith and I shoveled the driveway out this morning, with the help of two neighbors and their snow blowers.  I love nice neighbors!  We have a lot of cement, we have extra parking on the driveway and then a lot of cement in the back and we shovel our deck because the snow is so heavy. All that adds up to a lot of shoveling.  While Keith was at school me and the kids went outside so I could start shoveling the deck and the backyard. Caitlyn and Jonah were so excited with all the snow.

The snow was so high it practically buried our swing set.  The kids tried to swing anyway, it didn't work out so well!

The kids had a blast jumping off the big hill into the snow.  I couldn't believe they stayed outside so long. Usually they have to come inside after 10 minutes because they are so cold.

It loved watching them have so much fun.  It was killing me not to pull out their sleds that we got them for Christmas.