Dec 28, 29, 30

Why wait?  Let me toss these up here now because the kids have a cool mini vacation from school starting today.  They do not have to be back until next Wednesday.  We're going to build more Legos than you thought possible.  and... bake naan, take down our Christmas tree, snuggle our cats, read stories, have a tea party with my real teapot (I haven't told Gretchen yet... I still have time to chicken out about using Auntie Charlotte's tea pot with a couple 7 year olds), take pictures for our Valentine cards, play some Webkinz... probably the only thing they won't want to do is sleep late.  So, we'll probably watch some Wild Kratts at 6:30 am each day like normal.

So, more NY snow!!  It snowed more which left about a foot and a half on the ground!!!

 We visited Grandma's on the 30th.

 One of Gretchen's favorite gifts... hot cocoa and princess mugs from Aunt Kay!!

 Carl loves his TAG reader and USA map from Uncle Kenny.  He loves maps.

Next year we'd like to find a bigger hill for some real sledding.  But, for this year, they had fun on the driveway plow piles.

 Gretchen's snowman.

The zipline is fun in the snow, too!!

 This next photo was taken by Gretchen when we went to Aunt Joanne's to visit.  Wish we could have seen more of you guys - and had a longer visit.  The Legos were a huge hit!  Thank Will again for his help, too.  Thank you so much for the new recipes!   That was my favorite gift of 2012!!  ♥

 These next 2, also.

 She did really good lining us all up!

 Carl took this shot of Uncle Allan and Lew.

Here is my 1 snowflake picture.   The big, lacy flakes just weren't falling.  I tried at several time to find them, but it was mostly clumps or little ice balls falling.