We had a wonderful, fully white, Christmas this year that we celebrated together as a family. I have to say, I liked being "shut in." It was nice not having to get ready to go anywhere (although we were never planning on going anywhere today anyway).
The kids played with their new toys all morning until lunchtime. We had a light lunch after just finishing our cinnamon rolls, and then Asher went to bed. Just as Chris and I were about to sit down, a young man in a civic got stuck on our street. How he made it as far as he did was beyond us! So, Chris and I along with the girls went out to help dig him out. Boy, we did not know what that included! We shoveled, pushed the car and snowblowed the street so the young man could park on our driveway. There was NO WAY he was getting out of Shadow Lake! He works at UP and HAD to get to work at midnight (and was leaving at 1PM?). Anyway, his car remains in our driveway. Many other crazy people ventured out to test their cars today and ended up stuck on Ponderosa. Seriously, do they think we want to be outside all day? Chris helped dig one more person out while the others were able to push backwards back home. About 7PM when Chris and I were so sore from shoveling that we could hardly move, the big front loading snow tractor came through the entire neighborhood! Yeah for Papillion!
Asher found he likes his new workbench and tool kit quite well. Alivia and Addi played with their babies most of the day. We had our nice dinner in the evening of chicken (what else?) and Angel Birthday Cake for Jesus for dessert. It was cute to see Asher participating in the singing to Jesus. We also remembered Wade's birthday, too, which would have been today (Wade was my cousin who Asher Wade is named after. His birthday was on Christmas, too).
The kiddos were quite tired come bedtime, after Chris introduced Asher (and the girls) to parts of the movie Ironman.
It is always sad to have the day end, but we had a Merry Christmas celebrated as a family. And, it definitely was a white Christmas!
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