SNOW! In Midland?!

 Snow princess!

 Snow Prince!

 Trying to make a snow man... we could not get the snow to stick!

We had our first snow, a real snow! The kids were so excited. We layered up.. we have no snow clothes so it was real giggy... (socks for mittens and sweatpants.. both of which absorb snow quickly!) They finally got all dressed, and the excitement lasted 20 minutes until their hands were frozen. School was cancelled so we warmed up with hot chocolate and movies... it was a real lazy day. WE had lots of "orange snow cones" Which is fresh snow with OJ. 

It starting to feel a lot like Christmas!

December is here, and we have actually had cold weather! No snow, but cold enough to actually wear a coat. The trees are decorated, lights hung, and the kids celebrated last night with the town's Christmas parade. Skeet had a float this year the kids got to ride on and were super excited... not sure if they were more excited about riding or the candy they had to pass out! This year there were 85 floats adn I have to say some were really impressive. Zach and I watched ( by ourselves!) so we ordered Cancun Grill take out, picked it up and had a dinner date watching the parade. It was rather nice! Oh adn did I mention we went out on Friday night to coterie.. I actually got dressed up and in a dress.. it has been a while!

 My sweet Daddy.. who is so good to us.. he lives right down the street and always takes such good care of us...including babysitting!

 My handsome husband (No, that is not my jacket.. I wish it was.. thanks Pam!)f

 An idea of how our Christmas pictures went this morning....

 Riding on the float

 Even with a hat we still found a way to wear that princess tiara!

This morning we even took our Christmas card pictures.. before Church..can you believe we even made it to church without any arguments?! The pictures are just super casual in the front yard, my sweet mom came over to take them and out of 154.. we had 1 that everyone was looking at the camera with their eyes open.... really?! So it has to work!  A great start to a full month of a true celebration!