Two of My Favorite Things: Christmas and Snow

And they both happened on the same day! We had a wonderful Christmas! We stayed home this year for Christmas. We normally spend Christmas with family but this year the kids wanted to be at our house so we stayed here and plan to travel later this week to spend time with our families. On Friday my parents and my aunt & cousin came to our house for the Kirby/Cobb/Haneline Christmas celebrations. The kids opened tons of presents and we ate lots of yummy food!
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Later that evening the kids decorated cookies for Santa and it took them forever to get settled into bed. But when they did, we woke up the next morning to lots of presents under the tree... wink, wink!

Chandler got an iPod...Carter got drums for the Wii....Kensley got a Nintendo DS...and they got a lot more stuff to go with it! We had lots of fun playing with all the new toys & games yesterday as we watched the snow fall outside.

What a wonderful treat to get on Christmas Day... well, ours didn't really come until later that day but we woke up to a winter wonderland this morning. The snow started on Christmas Day around 3pm but was mostly rain/snow mix until around 5pm and then the flakes started falling. By 7:30 the ground was mostly covered and was so pretty.

This morning everything was covered in 3 1/2 inches of snow (some parts of the county got even more) and the kids were ready to go sledding. We went to Crest Middle School. It has a "big hill" which everyone loves to go to. The sledding down was fun, but the climb back up the hill was not! The kids had a blast anyways and I got some great pics from it. (Yes, I did sled too... I just never get my picture taken)

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I am so thankful for time spent with family, the beautiful snow, many presents and most of all the birth of our Savior!