Christmas #4

Christmas #4 was surely eventful....Especially since we woke up to the snow falling down....I told Kohen and he immediately wanted to see it...Here he is sitting on our windowsill looking in our backyard...We assured him that it wouldn't last long nor would there be enough for him to make a snowman since that was what he kept asking to do....Little did we know!!!

We went over to Maw and Papa's house like we do every Christmas Eve morning to open gifts with them and Kerry's sister's family....Kohen had to get a play in the driveway for a second before getting in the car....

This is our 3rd year to have Santa (aka--my uncle) come and visit the boys....They get so excited knowing Santa comes and sees them in the morning knowing he will be by to leave them presents that night....My uncle was always our Santa when my sister and I were little girls...My parents would wake us up (which I hope to do with Kohen in a few years) and we would secretly watch Santa set out our gifts...It was honestly the best thing ever!!...My uncle has played Santa and still does and loves it...He had several stops to make Christmas Eve morning and we were glad that he can come to the Maroney's every year.....

Kenzie did NOT want to be near Santa...Kresee was fine but Kenzie continued to bawl and so Kresee thought that maybe she should be a little afraid...She didn't cry, but sure pouted those little lips...

And then she continued to not like him when we moved Kenzie and put Kohen up there:)The boys, however, loved him and sat on his lap for a long time....Then we decided to sit the girls on the floor and Kenzie still didn't want to be near him....
Kresee wound up with Sleeping Beauty DVD, a necklace, and lots of clothes.....

Kohen got the G-Force DVD, a puzzle and a FatHead of Adrian Peterson!!....Kerry of course loves it!!.....

But we ate breakfast at 9:30, visited with Santa, and then opened gifts....We go over there in our PJ's....I brought Kresee's 10:30 bottle and some food for breakfast and that was it....Around noon we thought we would run home to get a few things while the kids played....Shellie and Jayson thought they would do the same....We had no idea how bad it was outside....Kerry and I tried to get our car out of the driveway for awhile...Then Jayson came out and shoveled around it...Then Kerry's dad came to help as well.....Then ours was permanently stuck on the curb of the driveway blocking Shellie's car.....So after about an hour or so, I decided to go back inside the house:)....They tried to move Shellie's car and got it stuck as well....I'm now not having fun...It's 1:30 and I haven't pumped and Kresee had no food...Fortunately, she eats table scraps well and I was able to nurse her at 2:30 instead of doing a bottle since I had no milk to put in a bottle....We laughed as the boys came inside needing some heavier duty clothes since Kerry was still in his PJ's....Jayson wore this hot number (Kerry's dad's ski pants from obviously years ago b/c they were tiny and barely fit little Jayson).....

Kerry had some on but later added way more since it was 25 degrees and the wind and snow was blowing like crazy...He did fall and bust his bootie...Really thought he broke his elbow...It is still very sore 2 days later.....

Kerry's dad had the bright orange ski mask that was pretty funny and then whatever else he could get on.....

Kerry realizes that maybe if he got his car (4 wheel drive) that he could pull our cars out into the street....So his dad and him WALK to our house....Our house was much worse and he had to jump the fence since the snow drifts were so high on our front door and the garage...They had to shovel our driveway and pour sand...Luckily they got it out....

In the meantime, a friend of Jayson came over in his big truck and yanked my car out of the driveway...They thought if we could get my car out of the cul-de-sac that we could get it going....It got stuck 3 more times and they ended up parking it for good 5 hrs later....And its still there (26th) since it's not moving.....They also pulled Shellie's car out as well....So now we had this guy's truck, Kerry's car, my car, and Shellie's car all in the cul-de-sac along with 2 other cars sitting there.....

Basically we got home at 6:30 that night and I've never been more happy to be home!!!!!

But Kohen did in the midst of all that, since the boys had no idea what was going on, got to play in the snow for a few minutes...We didn't have snow clothes attire and his little feet and hands were freezing within 5 or 10 minutes......

This was our house from the garage before we left that morning......
This was the next day (on Christmas)......

What a day:)