Happy Golden Anniversary, Grandpa and Grandma James!

The girls each want to wish you a Happy 50th Anniversay, Grandpa and Grandma! We love you and hope today is special!





Grammy's house and more

We had a fun visit at Grammy's house last week. The girls loved seeing everyone, especially Great Grammy Pyron, cousins, Shelly's hamster, and of course Mitsy the dog.

This Sunday at church Danielle took off running. Where was she running to? Nursery! She loves it now! What a big girl! We sure love her!

Christmas

We enjoyed Christmas Eve at Mount Vernon. They opened the third story, so we got to have a look around up there for the first time. And there was even a camel visiting Mount Vernon for the holiday season. Kind of fun.

Christmas morning was fun. Danielle (still waking up) joined in the fun. She knew she was supposed to be excited about something.

Let it snow ...

We got about 2 feet of snow this past weekend. That's A LOT of snow! Our dining room door opens out, so it's very stuck - we wont' be using our deck for a very long time.


Can you see the very tall, skinny wall of snow on the railing - it started to melt, and just suddenly froze, so now we have waves.



Danielle LOVES being outside in the snow.

So, are you wondering why our car is the only one that doesn't have 2 feet of snow on it? Well, we decided to take a trip down to Williamsburg. Saturday we decided to brave the snow storm and come home. It started out fine. We drove slow and made it about 10 miles from our exit. Then all of a sudden, traffic stopped. We waited, and waited, and waited. 8 hours later we finally made it home! (It turns out there was an accident at our exit that took forever to get cleared.) We hope we never, ever have to be in the car for 12 1/2 hours straight again!

Our Williamsburg trip was fun (not worth the trip home, but fun nonetheless).

Danielle needed a little help throwing her penny into the fountain.

Rebekah and Samantha are trying to warm their back sides by the fire.

We even got to see Santa while we were there. Of course, Danielle is still terrified of anyone in costume. She didn't even want to make eye contact (if I don't look at him, he won't be there).

Grandpa and Grandma

Here are a few pictures from Grandpa and Grandma James' visit. We had such a fun, relaxing visit over Thanksgiving. Gary's turkey turned out better than ever! So good! His secret tip: a few pieces of bacon on top.


We also enjoyed the pies. When Samantha saw Grandma's plate she said, "Grandma, you're going to get a tummy ache."

The girls' favorite day was of course playing at Chuck-e-cheese and then picking out a toy at the store. Can we say "spoiled" ...

Laundry

Danielle has come up with a new use for our laundry basket.

Shopping with kids

It's always a fun experience shopping with the whole family.

Riding (I mean, shopping) at Ikea and testing the music selection at Costco ...