Christmas Morning

Canyon was first up and Sahara found him out at the mailbox in his Santa shorts. It's 18 degrees out! We spent the next 15 minutes warming him up in moms bed. Then it was time to see what Santa brought and get the banana bread in the oven. 

 

Thank you everyone for some great gifts. We wish we were spending the holiday with you. Love and Happy New Year to all. 

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve

We exchanged gifts and opened them with Jared tonight. 

Canyon got a Pottsville shirt, pajama bottoms, and a Hog truck. 

Sahara got a beautiful opal ring, pajama set, and massage gift card. 

Misty got latte mugs and a massage gift card. 

Jared got a camo LED flashlight/work light and a life proof case for his phone. 

Merry Christmas Eve

A night with the lights.

Bitmey's birthday and early Christmas

Bitmey (as Canyon calls her) came over today for her birthday and early Christmas with her.

after he completely destroyed the box...

She got Canyon a Hog Snuggie.  

Sahara got a necklace with her name.  That never happens.  She was excited.  Brittany said she had connections! haha

Brittany got a mug, fuzzy socks, scarf, bracelet, candy, and itunes gift card.

And I didn't expect this, but she got me a redbox gift card :)

Now the girls headed to Little Rock so Brittany can wedding dress shop!

December Art Walk

It was so freezing and raining and hardly anyone showed, but we went. It was a reschedule from last weekend during the 3/4 day ice storm. 

This tree was so bright and pretty in the jewerly store, but the Santa faces on it were a little creepy. 

In front of the cabbuse Jared tried to peg me with an ice ball. Lucky for him, he missed!

Snowmen and more trees. 

We finally saw where Santa was hiding. In the pottery painting shop. He didn't seem interested it talking to Santa, just wanted a picture. Santa was involved with grown up talk so he wasn't gonna be a good listener anyway. We may find Santa again later. The one at the train depo is usually good but because of the reschedule he was booked elsewhere. 

Confetti

Soft little ice flowers fell from the sky today. I have no idea what to call this percipitation. 

Getting ready for the holiday

The house is decorated. The lights outside are few, but I plan to get some more up when it's above freezing. Sahara says that will be next Thursday!

We went with a real tree for the first time ever. It hasn't taken ANY water yet and it's been 8 days. It's mounted in the stand it came in so I can't recut the bottom. It will most likely be brown by Christmas. Bummer. We only decorated with picks, lights, and snow flakes. But Sahara wants me to find last years tree spider. Again, waiting for the thaw. 

Since we're kind of iced in we decided to get some holiday baking done. We loaded up trays and headed out to meet our four new neighbors. House one, no answer, we left the tray in their chair on the porch. House two, Alisha answered. Nice lady and she said Scott and Cindy live there. House three, really nice mom, Amanda and 3 elementary kids there. Then we got stuck in their driveway. Too icy. Took forever to get out and pretty embarrassing. So we skipped house four for now. 

We have 4 more batches of cookies to make and 1 loaf of bread. Maybe tomorrow. 

And everything is wrapped and under the tree and in the stockings.

                          🌲 YaY🌲

Snow Day

School/ work got out 2 hours early yesterday to prepare. 

Today everything was cancelled. Even the Christmas Parade (not to be rescheduled), the Bost party for Canyon (probably will be rescheduled), the Art Walk downtown (unknown).  

This is looking out my kitchen window box. 

Frozen. 

Even tho that totally looks like Malaki looking out the window, it's not! It must be ghost Malaki spirit or something because...

He is out here with us!!

Ok, time for soup! 

Supposed to get to 11 tonight. Brrrrrr.  

State Bowling

Canyon and his crew qualified at Regional for State. I had to get him to school at 6:15 to catch the bus to Little Rock. That's earlier then his alarm usually goes off to wake up. 

Looks like another Spare. 

The team gets 2nd place! 

Awesome job APACHES!!

Canyon is proud of his medal. :)