White Christmas?!?!!

Here are a few pics of what we have been experiencing in Oregon.... We usually only get snow once a year at most and it usually lasts the day and then melts. We have now been getting snow and or freezing rain for over a week and we are not done yet! Our poor tree in front of the office had a limb break from the weight of the freezing rain ice. There are trees down all over the city and we have pretty much come to a stand still. I am happy that we will have a white Christmas! Jerry has had the last two days off of work and we are hoping for a 3rd day tomorrow! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I have the sweetest boys.....

Jerry and Jack braved the snowy roads last night to get a few items from the store. They were waiting in line and jack saw some flowers and said "cherry blossoms.... these are perfect for Mom!" Jerry could not help but buy them... What a couple of sweethearts! I know.. I know... they really are not cherry blossoms, but they sorta look like them! I love my boys!

we FINALLY decorated for Christmas!!

Okay... we got to it a little late this year, but better late than never. We had fun keeping the kids up way past their bedtime to help decorate the tree. Abby played some music for us while jack & jerry put the lights on the tree. I think jack had more fun decorating himself with the lights. Since we are in an apartment we opted for a smaller tree, but it is beautiful! Every year I say that we should decorate early but this year it didn't happen. There is always next year! We have had fun talking about the gifts of our Savior that we celebrate at this time of year and discovering the magic of Christmas through young eyes and hearts is so sweet!

Abby's First Prayer

Jerry asked Abby to say the family prayer tonight and usually we help her, but she wanted no help at all, yes she is two years old. She started out with the standard prayer, thankful for mom & dad, thankful for jack & abby...she then started mumbling so we steered her back on course... then she went on saying she was "thankful for the workshop" (we have no idea what that means), "Thankful for the hairshop" (she just got her hair cut yesterday), "thankful for the Diego Party Church" (huh?). At this point Jerry and I look up at each other trying not to laugh....She continues, thankful for our "flamley".....She was so sincere and excited to be saying the prayer by herself, but at that point Jerry and I could not stop the giggles. Oh we love our Abby!

It's a good thing he's cute.....

So, jackson decided it would be fun to use the refill ink from the office to "make tracks" all over the house! He has figured out that when someone comes into the office mom's attention is elsewhere and that is when all heck broke loose! He came into the office with black ink all over his hands and clothes saying mom i think i need to take a bath! I started saying NO over and over again as I was running from room to room seeing the destruction that took less than 3 minutes to happen. I stripped him down and started cleaning for the next 5 hours. Then jerry came home loaded with cleaning supplies and we spent another 3-4 hours getting it out of the carpet! So.... if you ever need to know how to get ink out of carpet or pretty much anything, ask me.... I will tell you to just throw it away!!
Don't get me wrong, I love my children, they are imaginative, creative.... and destructive (at times).

This is the only Hippo we saw at the Zoo!

Jackson & Abby waiting for the Train Ride

Jerry & Jackson checking out the Tide pools

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