It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

We have had the last two days off of school because of snow and bitter cold temperatures. We have thoroughly enjoyed getting caught up on laundry and baking and wrapping presents and playinig in the snow and watching Levi experience snow for the first time. We all slept in yesterday morning and then Bret was out shoveling the snow off the deck. Levi was so fascinated by it. Bret gave him a bowl of it to play with and he wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Rachel showed him what to do with it though. Later in the morning we went outside to play in the snow. The neighbor kids came dowwn and helped to build a snowman. Rachel calls the snowman her boyfriend (Bret's idea).












Seeing that this is a catchup post, I'm going to post about several things that have happened to us over the past 2 months. For Thanksgiving, we spent most of our time in Wisconsin with my family. Levi and Bret got to meet my friend Michelle and her family for the first time. Then, when we returned we got to meet Bret's aunt and her daughters who were visiting from Tennessee. It was a full weekend with all of our family. It was nice to see and spend time with all of them.












On Monday Levi put his own shoe on at the babysitter's house. It took him a little while but then he came over and showed her his foot. He is growing up so fast and trying to do more and more things by himself. He wants to imitate everything we say it seems.

The beginning of November my parents, niece, aunt, cousin and her son were here for Rachel's fall play. They were only able to do it on Saturday night because of sickness (Rachel and I were sick with the flu that week.) They did a play called, "Those Crazy Old Ladies in the House on the Corner." Rachel played one of the old ladies. She did an excellent job. I guess working at the nursing home for the past year and a half has really paid off. The play was hilarious!