We Survived...Did You?

Well, we have survived another whirlwind of a Christmas. If you are anything like us we have several different Christmas' that we must attend. Typically they start on Christmas Eve Eve (Dec. 23) and wrap up the day after Christmas. Here is how our time broke down:

Our first Christmas was with my mom's side of the family. There are usually gifts for the kids and then my grandpa will buy us a ham or something. Christmas eve day, Wendy and the girls attended church with her parents (I was home extremely sick from something that I ate). They then went to my grandparents (dad's side of the family) for Christmas. I really hated missing that time with my grandparents. We draw names for kids and adults for this time together. I had to buy for my cousin's husband who I have never even seen before, in fact, I don't think I have even seen a picture of the guy. For all I know someone in her house got a new flashlight (that's what this person wanted), I don't even know his name. Anyway, Christmas morning is done at our house with just our family. I like being able to do that now that we live by all of our family. We then went to Wendy's parents house for lunch and Christmas. Here we also draw names for adults and kids. I went even though I didn't feel like eating much and repeating the day before. Finally, on Tuesday we went to my parents house and celebrated Christmas with them, again we draw names for the adults and just buy for all the kids (my sister and I each have 3 kids).

It was a fun time and quite enjoyable. There is nothing more fun for me than to watch my kids open their presents. I am sure those of you with kids understand and agree with that. I am a person that enjoys the holiday's because I enjoy spending time with family. I don't feel that it is a time for worrying about how much I get. I wish other's felt that way. There are some things I would like to change about all of the drawing of names that we do, but no one ever wants to listen to me because it would mean they might not get something. Aren't we adults, don't we normally buy what we want, when we want anyways? I like buying for the kids, as I have said.

Okay, enough of that. With that said, however, here is a list of the gifts that I received for Christmas.

1. NIV Study Bible for my phone

2. Cash (always good)

3. Hard gun case

4. Lowe's gift card

And the greatest gift that my adorable wife could have purchased for me...

5. Season 1 DVD of Beverly Hills, 90210

What did you get?

We've Got ICE!!!!!!!!

I don't mean sleet and snow this time, but I mean actual ice. For those of you that know us, probably remember a conversation like this at some point:

US: Would you like to come over for dinner?

YOU: Sure, can we bring something?

US: We will handle all of the food, but if you want ice in your drink you might want to stop and get some.

Well no longer will you hear us say that. We finally broke down and purchased a new refrigerator. For those of you that don't know we have not had ice since our first year of marriage and that was because we made it with the old plastic ice trays. Our first refrigerator to own was left in our house that we bought in Searcy. We have had it ever since. The refrigerator was delivered yesterday and now we actually have ice. You are probably thinking, yippee ice, well we are talking 10 years of marriage without ice. So we are pretty excited.

By the way, you won't believe were we bought it.....

Winter Wonderland

It finally started snowing yesterday around 3:00 pm. That was after it had sleeted for about 15 hours straight. The snow ended late last night and parts of Oklahoma had it's first ever blizzard warning from the National Weather Service. We ended up with about 10 inches of snow on top of the 1-2 of sleet. Roads are hazardous and travel has been discouraged. Most of the roads will not even begin to clear until tomorrow because most of northeast Oklahoma will have below freezing temperatures today. So, we are stuck in doors.

The girls were begging all day yesterday to go and play in the snow, this was during the massive sleet period. We told them that we would tomorrow. So today we bundled up and headed out for them to make snow angels. They wanted to make a snowman but the snow would not pack. It was quite deep and we have some very deep snow drifts. It's awesome. I love snow. I don't like the fact that we have used 2 of our 4 built in snow days before December even starts but I do love the weather.

Here are some pictures of the girls making snow angels and our front yard before it was all messed up.