Family Pictures

Eric and Brian and Grammy and Grandpapa were all at the house to celebrate XMAS eve. We had a wonderful dinner, opened presents, and had some cupcakes for dessert. It was the perfect night!

Nora and Ronan in XMAS outfits

The kids were so cute in their XMAS outfits. Ronan and Nora were so good all night and we were able to get a ton of good pictures.

Nora loves the SNOW!

We walked to Foothill park and found a great snow fort that another family had built. It was pretty big and I bet 4 kids could fit inside. Nora loved it. We also borrowed an tube from someone so that Nora and Jeff could slide down the hill. Nora laughed the whole time! PDX ran out of sleds the first day of the snow, so we'll have to pick one up sooner next year.

Snow in Cedar Hills

There are some of the pictures of our house and the pond with SNOW! It's been almost two weeks since it started and we even had some snow today (it really is a white XMAS)! I loved the icicles that we had hanging from our roof. Jeff pulled one off for me. Nora loved walking down to the pond. It's about half frozen over and just beautiful.

Artic Blast 2008

The picture of the snow is from in front of our house and was taken on Thursday- the only day last week that Jeff actually made it into work. Jeff's parents arrived about noon on Thursday. We were supposed to go to the coast on Friday, but we turned back once we realized how slick the roads were. Even though we were on 30, there was no way we would've made it all the way to the coast.

Jeff's parents decided to stay downtown for the weekend, and we joined them on Saturday night because we knew that the weather was only going to get worse. We took the MAX downtown and had a great time. Most of the stores were closing and we watched the local news and their 24 hour coverage of the storm. At this point they were predicting about 10 inches of snow.

This morning we made it home. I won't go into the details of our journey- except to say that it was longer than expected. We'll have to post more pictures, because we've had freezing rain and now a ton of snow in the past hour.

I've always wanted a winter wonderland, but now I'm over it!

Having a Blast!

We're so lucky that Jeff is from WI and knows how to really build a snowman. Nora was so excited to have Frosty in front of her house. We only had carrot sticks to use for the nose instead of a big carrot- it's the thought that counts.

Ronan is becoming a little man. There's something about putting him in blue jeans that really ages him.

Ready for Christmas Video

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Ronan

We bought a new camera this weekend and were able to take better pictures of Ronan. He's cute even when he's crying!

It snowed in Portland! It started snowing at about 8:00 yesterday morning and continued for hours! Jeff and Nora went outside a few times to play in the snow before the temperature became too low. When Nora came in, Jeff made her a little hot chocolate. It's now about 20 degrees outside and Jeff is staying home from work. We LOVE the snow!