So here's the rest of our Christmas vacation....which was amazing. Molly and I flew in to Seattle on Saturday the 20th in the morning just in time to miss the next storm coming in later that afternoon. Earlier that week they had a storm come in and it left a few inches pretty much everywhere and it wasn't going to melt off like it usually does because it was pretty cold the whole time we were there. As soon as we got to my parents place it started to snow and really didn't stop until we left on the 28th. One of the nights we were there we managed to get over to the Richard Dance home for some family fun. Molly was a big fan of the hand bell/audience participation part of the family concert. I think we'll be getting a set of our own for next Christmas.
This was during a break in the storm when we were able to get out to build ourselves a friend. You can't really tell because of the extra snow that fell on top, which set him at about 5'11", but our snowguy is wearing a crown, his eyes and mouth are made out of almonds, his nose is a carrott, his pipe was made out of a pine cone stuck on the end of a pencil, sticks for arms, and licorice for buttons (which ended up bleeding a little bit). Since most of what we used to build his features was food the animals got to it eventually....and so did we with an angry shovel right before we left.
This was during a break in the storm when we were able to get out to build ourselves a friend. You can't really tell because of the extra snow that fell on top, which set him at about 5'11", but our snowguy is wearing a crown, his eyes and mouth are made out of almonds, his nose is a carrott, his pipe was made out of a pine cone stuck on the end of a pencil, sticks for arms, and licorice for buttons (which ended up bleeding a little bit). Since most of what we used to build his features was food the animals got to it eventually....and so did we with an angry shovel right before we left.
Molly wasn't done building snow people and this was her snowbear waving his little arm. The storm that moved in that night completely buried this little guy.
Then she felt the need to jump on top of my mom's car.
When we weren't playing outside in the snow we were spending time with the family. This is pretty much how my vacation was when I was indoors with the kids. Don't get me wrong, I love it otherwise I wouldn't be on the ground laughing as hard as I was. In this picture Tyler, MacKenzie, Spencer, and Carson were keeping me down. Maybe next time I can fit everybody else.
This last pic was from Friday night...Rock Band night. After all the little munchkins got tired of playing the adults got on and we were pretty good. This was the all brother band. Nick on the guitar, Mark on the bass, I was rockin the vocals, and Tim was on the drums. 98%!!...almost a flawless track. I think we were doing "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins and I tried my best to sound just like Billy.
