Holidaze

December was a whirlwind. We were so lucky to have all the family here for most of the month. The Reids got to come early and stay for almost three weeks. Mark and Jenni came in for a week and the Fontano's flew in and surprised all of us a couple days after Christmas. Kim and her family left a couple days after Christmas to move to Denver, but it was so fun to have them here for three months! We had a great time with all the cousins. Jacob, Jonah, and Elle got to try ice-skating for the first time and we had a really fun New Years too. It was a little tough to juggle time with both families, but what a great problem to have. We're so blessed to have so many loved ones so close. The morning the kids had to go back to school we were shocked with a morning snow-storm! Jonah came in and said, "It's snowing!" and I thought, yeah, yeah, little flurries, but he said, "No, it's really snowing, look outside!" When I did, I felt like a little kid growing up in Virginia looking out my window and seeing white everywhere. Unfortunately, it all melted 2 hours later and the kids had to go to school, but it was a nice little end to Christmas break.

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