Weekend Family Fun & First Snow Fall

I made taco salads for dinner Friday night for the kids and I.  The kids eat the shell with mass quantities of cheese. It's parenting at it's finest.  Cate takes her taco shell eating serious.  

I needed to find ways to keep the kids busy to limit the amount of screaming and fighting. The time change is still killing me b/c when it gets dark at 5pm it feels like it's 9pm.  The little two took a nap Friday which means the kids are up later than usual.  We received our family Christmas cards and they needed stuffed into envelopes and address stickers applied.

I apologize to anyone who gets a card that looks a little bit like it was licked by Cate.  It was. She took her envelope licking serious.

 Willie was also responsible for licking envelopes.  We got him a wet washcloth and he created a method of his own and turned the envelope over and ran the sticky part over the washcloth.  It was so smart. I was so proud of it for thinking of new ways to do things.

Saturday night we went to Naperville to celebrate the holiday season and catch up on life with great friends.

Sunday morning it started to snow around 10:00am.  The kids wanted to go out and play in the snow. They were thrilled with the amount of snow that was on the ground in the picture below.

And in just a few hours we had so much more snow. It is the wet and heavy snow. I started shoveling to get a start on it but by the time I finished it looked like I hadn't done much of anything.

 Miss M worked really hard on her snowman.  She even got him an umbrella to help keep him dry.

I wish we had a mudroom or area of the house where we could drop all the wet clothes when we walk in the door.  Four sets of gloves, hats, coats, boots, snow pants is a mess.  The mess takes up the entire kitchen and leaves water everywhere for the kids to slip on.