Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

We got dumped on this weekend. Bryson was trying to make his way through the snow and look how deep it was!Just kidding. He was on his knees in the picture. But is was still really deep. Almost 18 inches at our house!

This picture gives a little more realistic perspective on how deep the snow is. That's our picnic table in the backyard.

So of course we had to take advantage of it. Tubing at the High School!

David

Bryson

Chris (Me)

McKay

Nathan and Rachel arrived home from Arizona between snow storms on Saturday and joined us for tubing last night.

My little (ha,ha 6 foot tall) sister, Jaime, came to visit Tuesday from Arizona. As she put it, "It's cheaper for me to fly out and buy your Christmas presents than it is for me to ship them." She works for one of the airlines, so it's really true. Plus we get to hang out together and go shopping. The only problem was that neither of us likes to shop. So we finally kicked ourselves out of the house around 11 to face the stores. We were done (fed up with shopping and got what we needed) by 2 and that included a stop for lunch. The rest of the day was spent as "Candy Fest 2008". We made lots of my Grandma Spykerman's candy recipes. Carmels, fudge, mints, candied pecans, etc. We had a great time! That night she wrapped the presents and asked if she really had to wrap mine. Of course she did. Watching her try to wrap it was as much fun as getting it! Check it out.

Aren't sisters great!?!