PHOTOS: Winter Wonderland

Christmas Ninjas

Christmas Comfy

The boys relaxing (momentarily) under new fleece blankets with their Pillow Pets from their Christensen grandparents.

Christensen Christmas

New Family Photo

Duck and Cover!

Both boys received Marshmallow Blasters from the Deur grandparents. Forty foot power (according to the box) and plenty of zing behind the fluffy ammunition!

The Deurs

Christmas PJs

Pre-Travel Christmas

VIDEO: HCA Christmas

HCA First Graders

Aidan and Miss Richter

VIDEO: Church Program

A few clips from the boys' Christmas Program at church last night. It was Kellen's first program and he spent a little time looking for big brother Aidan. They had practiced together at home for two weeks. Both boys had speaking parts and did well with the reward of cookies awaiting them

Blizzard!

This weekend we got hit with a lot of snow and some very high winds. It was so treacherous they actually cancelled church on Sunday morning...the first time we've had anything stopped by snow in Minnesota. In fact Aidan's never even had a delay at school because the people of our fine state are hardcore winter warriors.

Below you'll see Kellen and Logan demonstrating the size of the drift on our deck. This was before the winds really picked up.

I found the snow in the driveway to be light and fluffy but very deep near the street. In the back yard trudging through the drifts was very difficult and I lost a leg a few times...as in they disappeared in the snow, I still have all of my appendages.

I shot a little video of the snow and wind but the clip below is slightly more dramatic. Nothing says dangerous snow like a stadium roof collapse!

I do wish I had some video of me clearing the driveway in the high winds. Some of the gust were so stiff I could loft the fluffy stuff into the air and watch it fly over the neighbor's driveway. It was very entertaining until I turned my head and caught whatever was blowing down the street.

For more information on what it's like to live in Minnesota refer back to my reflections from our first winter in the Great White North.

Memory Man

Aidan shares some of his recent memorization work from school. Not sure why the video is so jumpy.

Do It Yourself Dinner

Meltdown

Do you love Christmas candies? Assorted items covered in white chocolate or almond bark?

Make sure you peak in the oven door before preheating for your chicken nuggets. That's a Tupperware lid melted on the treats Rachel made for Aidan's teacher. We had stashed them in the oven before vacating the house for a showing. I thought the preheat was smelling extra delicious.

Kid Compare (10M)

Logan

Kellen

Aidan

You Choose

I'm sharing this photo to...

a) show you Logan's newest talents of standing by himself and taking a few steps

b) illustrate the horrible daily choices I make when dressing him in clothes that are not the appropriate size

Improvise!

Your parents don't own a ping-pong table? Build your own with Mega Blocks and find make shift paddles!