Snow, Snow, Snow

We have gotten a lot of snow this week and the kids are loving it, especially Mackenzie.

Saturday it pretty much snowed all day.  We stayed home and enjoyed the day together, doing a lot of prepping for Christmas, including making Christmas cookies.

On Sunday morning we took the kids shopping for Christmas gifts for cousins and then we headed to the hill to go sledding.  After sledding for a while, Mackenzie decided to build a snowfort.  In the picture below, you can see Brian in the background, but Mackenzie is hiding behind her fort:

 Here you can see Mackenzie's head poking up from behind her fort:

 

Isaac loved sledding, but when we got home he was ready to get warm.  As we were getting out of the car I said, "Let's head inside and get warm."  I resceived an animated, "No" from Mackenzie.  Isaac and I headed inside while Mackenzie went down the street to get Payton.  The girls used our two sleds to drag big chunks of snow from our front yard, where the folks plowing the snow were nice enought to pile it on top of my flower bed, to our back yard.  They made a nice circular snow fort/house.  Mackenzie informed me that they just need to make the beds now.

Mackenzie continues to spend time in the snow each day.  Isaac on the other hand is loving pbskids.org.  He has decided that he really likes hot chocolate if he does spend time in the cold though.

I finished wrapping Christmas gifts today.  I think that I am ready.  I am sure that I forgot something though and I will be frantic on Christmas morning over something.  One more week . . .