It's been awhile - lots of pics and video

I have some Christmas pics, maybe a few day after Christmas, a couple videos that Char took and at last OUR BIG TRIP TO THE FARM! We went to visit Bret's sister and family (Jill, Rhett, Tobias, Eli, Curtis and Tatiana) at Rhett's mom and Clark's house in Nezperce, Idaho. SUPER FUN - SUPER LOUD (7 kids all running around in one house)!! We all had a great time. The kids went sledding and played games. Morgan got to help Rhett's mom feed the chickens and took home the egg she collected. Bret and Clark took the kids to explore the farm buildings and to check out the barn. Tatiana is their youngest, just turned a year old and it was nice to see another little one as clingy to mom as Braden is. :) I got to hold her a couple times while Jill was getting food together.

We finally see snow...

After a couple days of threats from the weather people we finally get some snow!! "Where is the truck," you say? Bret took Morgan to do his favorite thing in the snow... DRIVE! while I tend the sleeping babes. That's okay - I get to do my favorite thing in the snow... sit on the couch, next to the fire and WATCH! :) As you can see from the pics, the kids already got to do their favorite thing in the snow... SLED! (which happens to be Bret's second favorite thing to do in the snow) Braden was a chore to get ready, he's very much a creature of habit. Gloves, boots and a hat are not part of his usual routine so he was not happy about me forcing them all on him until he got outside to see the sled hill that Morgan and mostly Bret had already built by the time he was ready. Once he saw that, he forgot all about the torture of getting dressed, good thing kids have a short memory. Except Morgan, she has a memory like an elephant.

Morgan built a snowman with Char yesterday with the little snow that they got. Cute!

Gotta run! I've only got a precious few minutes of quiet time. Maybe I'll read!

Oh, too late, Braden's up.

We did it - the tree is decorated!

So the tree is decorated. We've been busy working, sleeping, eating and somehow sneaking in Christmas shopping. Hope you like the pics (I even included some of myself this time).