It's Winter

I always wanted a "real" winter as a kid. Well, my years in Calgary and now Cranbrook are fulfilling that wish. It didn't start until late (apparently) this year but now it's here with a vengeance. Today has actually warmed up and I might let the kids go play in the snow. It's been -15F (-25C) and today it's above 0 before noon (actually before 9am).

I've been seeing lots of snow pictures from all of you, so it's time to show mine, though I'm never quite happy with how snow pictures turn out.


I love looking out the window at the top of the stairs over to the church. The tree is so pretty covered in snow and the church is my perfect idea of what a winter church should look like.
The town actually looks pretty too.

Cute Singing Boys

Christmas Baking

I started baking today. I've been pondering it for quite some time but things have been busy and I'm just beginning. So here's my plan:

Kringla (that's what I started with today)
Russian tea cakes
Sour cream twists
fudge

Cheese ball
Sausage rolls (if I get to them)

Any requests? This is all traveling with us to Arlington!

John John likes sushi!

Ok, so not really sushi but seaweed and rice! I like to make lazy sushi when we have rice for dinner. I just fold the nori in fourths and pick up a scoop of rice with it and sometimes kimchi -yum! John John agrees.

St. Nicholas Day

We had a fun morning at church celebrating St. Nicholas Day!

From St. Nicholas Day

New glasses::2nd try

Gabe's glasses broke less than 2 days after getting them - so it was back to the store and they exchanged them for a frame that should be much more 4 year old friendly. He was tantilized by those 2 days of seeing and kept asking when he could go get his new glasses. So here we go.

It's that time!

I love pulling out the Christmas decorations and I think the kids love it even more than I do. Our living room is really small and I have absolutely no idea where we'll put a tree so we got a couple small trees for the kid's rooms. They were so excited to have their own little tree to decorate! We'll still put something small in the living room but this way we can still use most of our ornaments.

They keep asking me what we can decorate next!