Decorating the tree

    

  

I know I am a little behind, especially since we have already taken our tree down but I wanted to make sure it was documented.  The line of ornaments was an attempt to get the kids from picking the ornaments out the of box and dropping them while looking at all of them, it actually worked pretty good!

Cade's piano recital

Tonight Cade had his first piano recital.  He did a solo, Jingle Bells, and a duet with his teacher, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.  He did great!

  

SNOW DAY IN LAS VEGAS???

Usually when it snows here it snows for one day and then we are done and usually it is just by our house.  Yesterday about 1pm it started snowing and it continue to snow.  It was hilarious, I turned on the tv to watch some random show while I got dinner ready about 3pm and on all of the major tv stations they were covering the snow.  I guess we had our biggest snow storm in 3o years and it even snowed on the strip which it never does.  It kept coming down harder and never let up so by 8pm the school district called a Snow Day for today.  It snowed throughout the night but early this morning it stopped and it has started to melt.  Thank goodness because in a town that only has 4 snow plows it could have got really ugly.  Of course Cade couldn't be happier, he even had yesterday off for Parent/Teacher Conference!  So he gets to join us at Peter Piper Pizza for Claire's Preschool Christmas Party so he thinks he hit the Jackpot.  

I wish I would have taken this picture last night with more snow but this is what palm trees look like in the snow.  

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas?

    

         

Monday around 6am it began snowing in Las Vegas!  It has snowed a couple of times since we have been here but it SNOWED on Monday.  First it was just slushy wet snow but then big fluffy flakes started coming down.  Of course living in Vegas we don't have snow clothes so the kids went through a few outfits but they had a blast.  Casey even came home early and helped the kids build a snow man, yes we had enough snow for a snowman.  

Fun times at Thanksgiving

       

    

My kids love to spend time with their cousins and so of course they had a great time at Thanksgiving.  They had fun with Allie and Laney and I feel bad for them because they think that they are a lot younger than they really are.  Laney is only 5 weeks younger than Chloe and Allie 14 months but they think she is a little baby.  It is so neat to see them interact with each other and see the love and friendship growing between all of them.  They also got to play with Uncle John and Stephanie!