MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I know, I know - I'm a couple days early, but I figure I won't have time to post this before Christmas. We are soooo ready for Christmas. And by we, I mean me. I've got all the presents wrapped, the kids and I baked Santa some cookies and I even had Andrew and Alivia make some thank you cards to give to Santa. We. Are. Ready.

This here's the card we sent out this year - if you didn't get one, it's because you're not on our super elite mailing list. Sorry! That means you didn't meet our super strict elite mailing list requirements, which are as follows:

1. Send me your mailing address.

See? It's pretty complicated. Soooo.....You can look at it here instead. Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Oooooohhhh, the weather outside is frightful...

It finally hit us. And when it did - it hit big. We got alot of snow yesterday!!! I had plans to take the kids to go see Santa yesterday, but by the time I got the kids ready, I looked outside and my back yard looked like the last frontier in Alaska. So....we stayed home. And I banished the two older kids upstairs with a movie and lots and lots of toys - with strict instructions to not even think about coming downstairs. And then, I wrapped presents for 3.5 hours. I almost finished - but I still have a few more to go. And you betch'er rear end it's all the odd shaped packages that are left sitting on my shelf. Why do I always wait to torture myself till the very end?

Extremely long side note: I would just like to say that Jason (and other men in his position) have the Christmas season pretty easy. Jason hates shopping - but especially during Christmas. He hates the crowds. He hates the sales people who pressure him to buy things he's too nice to say no to. He. Hates. It. And get this - he only has to shop for one - that's right folks - one person. Me. He takes an entire day to shop for me. You see, he needs this entire day so that he can take "beer breaks" between stores - just so he can keep shopping. That's his tradition.

My tradition?

I generate present ideas for every other person on our list - which usually totals around 30 people. Then, I shop for those 30 people - most of which I get done in a Annual One Day Power Christmas Shopping Extravaganza. How do I do that, you ask? It's one of the many perks of being so awesome.

I then wrap those presents for 30 people, and stuff 4 stocking to the brim.

Just so we're clear - let's do a little recap:

Jason - one person to generate ideas, shop and wrap for.

Alecia - 30 people to generate ideas, shop and wrap for.

Yeah, yeah, yeah....he makes the money that pays for those presents....(sigh)...whatever.

Anyways......this morning I was feeling a little bit guilty about not letting the kids go outside to play in the snow yesterday, so first thing this morning I bundled them up and let them hit the back yard. And they did. They ran. They laughed. They made snow angels. They threw snow at our dog. For about 15 minutes. Then they were begging to come inside. But being the photographer mama that I am - I snapped a few pictures of them in the snow. So here you go. They were cute while they lasted!

Awwwww yeah.....it's business time.

I just had to share my new favorite. song. ever. If you are married - heck, even if you're not, enjoy....because....thass right....it's business time.