Winter Wonderland

We had our first, and probably only, snow of the year. It is still a flurry outside as I am writing this.

As Lucy and Kevin were outside playing, a local news channel stopped and interviewed them and just taped Lucy playing. They asked her where she had seen snow before and she answered "Princess Jasmine". Duh. She was watching Aladdin just before going outside.

This was Owen's first snow but he is getting over some sickies so he didn't get to play for very long.

We're in trouble!

While we were in Oregon for Dawn's wedding I had the opportunity to look into the future. Lucy likes to party. She was the first one on the dance floor at the reception and the last one to leave. She officially has a crush on Dylan Hackett and all the kids were like a little clique the whole night. The grown ups are already outsiders. They wouldn't let us in on what was going on and I started to feel like I was losing my grip on her. She is growing up and she hasn't even reached three yet. At least Owen can make me feel like I still have purpose.

It was a great visit. It wasn't always good times. My cousin was in an accident the night before we arrived and so we balanced some pretty big emotions, constantly going back and forth between wedding and funeral planning. Even though it was for a sad reason, it was good to have some extra time with family coming together. I could blog about at least 20 different things that happened on this trip but I don't know if that will ever get around to that. Hopefully I will be able to do more before Christmas.