The snow has finally melted enough that you can see the ground, and so this morning he took the kids out to forage! They armed themselves with their books and flash cards and headed out. I sent the camera with them, and told Bumpa to get some pictures of the kids. These are the only two pictures he took. They didn't come home with any "food" but they did have a nice hike with Bumpa!
The restaurant slowly spins around so you can see all of Seattle while you eat. 
Of course we made sugar cookies for Santa. 
And everyone gets to help decorate.
After decorating cookies, we do our nativity scene. Both of the girls wanted to be Mary, so we decided to flip a coin. They were warned beforehand, that the loser was not allowed to throw a fit, and could then chose to be an angel, wise man, or shepherd. 
Can you tell who won the toss?? To her credit, when Kennedy saw that Whitley was crying she told her that she could be Mary. Every once in a while, the soft side of Kennedy comes out. Whitley chose to be the angel, and all was well.
Here is our small nativity. Hopefully next year, there will be some cousins around to add to the scene! (Colton made it clear that this was his last year in the nativity scene)
And then it was time to open up just one present. They know every year that they get to open one present on Christmas Eve. And it's always pj's. They know this, they even talk about what their pj's might look like, and yet they're still so excited!
Even Bumpa got pj's this year.
Saturday December 20-Colton went first thing this morning on a scout outing. I took Whitley to the Stake center for a song practice. Her and Colton are singing in the Stake devotional Sunday night. Landon took Kennedy to the airport to pick up Bumpa (Landon's dad). What should have taken him an hour to an hour and a half, took him almost 4 hours because of the snow. Later that afternoon, we start to hear from our neighbors that we're going to have a wind storm that night. About 5 o'clock the wind starts to blow. It is snowing, and the wind is blowing so hard that the snow is blowing completely sideways! We start to get calls from our home teachers to see that we're okay, and from the elders quorum to let us know that we're only having Sacrament meeting tomorrow. But the bishop says to do what is safest for our family. The way it looks outside, we're not going anywhere!
(Our backyard)
Tuesday December 23-We ate the wheat berries for breakfast this morning. We put honey on them, and they weren't that bad. If it comes down to it, we could survive on that stuff. Still working on the sprouts. There is snow and rain in the forecast for the next few days. With the temps in the 20's everything is frozen! The roads are like an ice skating rink. We're headed out this morning to make that snowman in the back yard!
Do you know what this is. It's my arch rival! Every night after dinner, Landon gets one of my 2 cup measuring cups, fills it with ice cream and milk. Then he mixes it all up with a spoon and devours it. It's bad enough that it happens all year long, but during the holidays, when I'm trying not to gain 50 lbs before January?? Help me out here. On a side note, Landon hasn't gained an ounce since we got married. That's right. You hoover down that much cream and see how it works for you. So unfair! 
It starting snowing last night, and you would've thought it was Christmas my kids were so excited. They had a snowball fight in the street with some neighbor kids until 9:30 at night. They got up first thing this morning and got dressed to go out into the back yard and enjoy the little bit of snow we did get. I think it was 26 degrees outside, so I took these pictures from the comfort of my family room. 
