Winter Wonderland

Out my kitchen window. I feel so blessed!

Our Rain-O-Meter sorry pic is sideways lol

Jersey, my horsey

Dandy getting ready to eat
Pixie(Nate's horse)

Going out to feed the horses

Sandy

Ringo playin in the snow(these pictures were all taken this morning and we have since had 4 or so more inches with it snowing very hard again right now)

Its so neat to be unschooling in such crazy weather this week. We have been able to have a blast with it. As most know, California has gotten a batch of the crazies for weather this week, tornado's, 2-4 inches of rain each day with 70mph wind speeds and tons of snow in low elevations. We are really enjoying it because its not something we get to see all the time. Snow is usually only a few times a year where we live. On Monday we made snowflakes and hung them all over our dining room window and put winter wishes on them. They have snow, hot chocolate, stay healthy, live in gratitude and J-O-Y(Jesus first, others second, yourself last), etc. Well, their wishes are being manifested right before our eyes. We have so much snow, its incredible. It is still pouring snow as I type. Anyhow, backing up to Monday, we ended up finishing out morning by making snowflake tortillas and frying them and putting powdered sugar on them for breakfast mmm. Then we got curious since we knew we had a whole 9 day forecast loaded with big rain, about how to measure it for ourselves. Well, we went online and made a rain-O-meter. We have been able to track our precipitation each day. Wyatt added it up for a total today (5 days into these storms) and we have gotten 5.35 inches thus far. Kayla averaged the temps for the week thus far, coming up with 40. The week started warmish(48) and its currently 38 today. Life is learning, learning is living and we choose to live our lives in a deep gratitude for each new thing. Seeing 6 beaming little faces from ear to ear this morning when they saw everything white outside, nearly melted my heart in joy for my life. I am one lucky mama.

4 Birthdays in One Month--January!

Wyattman Jan 19th(excuse the mess of train parts on the floor lol)
Wyatt wanted a Pengiuns of Madagascar cake , I made it

Heres Skipper

Tanner Jan7th I made him a hotwheels racetrack cake!

His new wooden trainset

And, Nate was Jan 2nd......and me, Jan 20th. Its been an expensive month:)

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Kenna and Wyattman
Aw Kayla and Daddy

Ebbers

Nanner

Everett

Kenna! She has since fully weaned from bottle and breast! yay

Madelynn crawling

My mom and her boyfriend Chris

My sister and her boyfriend Ronnie, holding Maddy and Lexi

Christmas morning! OMGosh, this was put together during the night so they woke up to it as a total suprise

Kennas fav new toys

Christmas eve, in their new jammies




What a blessed Christmas we had.

Knotts Merry Farm

Joie(step coisin) and Kenna
New Sling I MADE!!

MaddyMay sleepin on mama

The whole fam in line for calico mine

Joie and Kenna again, having a lot of fun

MaddyMay and Grandpa

Tanner

riding the trucks

This is our 3rd annual Knotts Merry Farm trip. We go each year with Grandpa, Nana and their Step coisin Joie. Its so much fun and a tradition we plan to continue.

Christmas Baking

Kenna mixing frosting
Kayla

hehe Cheesy Wyatt

Ebbers final product

Tanner frosting

Everyone working hard decorating

Kayla did these all by herself! mmm

Chocolate chip cookies nad I actually made 3 loaves of Chocolate chip banana bread(its famous round here)

Brownies in the back, sugar cookies in the front

Hey gang! Havin fun?

Serious business

Excuse the messy floor, we were baking!

My pretty baby!

I don't recall taking many pictures of baking, though we do it each year. So, this year I went a lil crazy! Enjoy the pics. We had a blast and then we went and drove them all over town and handed them out to family and friends. It was a fun night.

Ringo!

This big boy is our 2 year old 60lb border collie, Ringo! We got him from the pound. He was an owner surrender from a family who lost their home and had to move into an apartment. He is such a good pup. He loves all the kids and animals and you can tell he is so happy to have found a forever home after what he had been through. He runs until he can't run anymore, then he comes in with Sandy(our small border collie/cocker spaniel mix) and they cuddle up and sleep on their doggie beds together in a doggie pile.

Wyatt Declared it a Christmas Miracle

Maddy waiting for Wyatt

YAY no more cast!

Kenna hangin out while they sawed Wyatt's cast off

Its a long story, but the short of it is; Wyatt wanted his cast off a week before it was due to come off. He premeditated a cast soaking. Well, he succeeded and.....he won! Okay really, he went out that morning and cleaned his whole basketball court. I asked him why he was doing that. His reply was something about his cast coming off in a week. Ok so? That night in the bath he dunked his entire arm and laughed and told me that he cleaned his court off cause he is getting his cast off tomorrow because his arm is wet and they have to. Well, lucky for both of us, his xrays were good and his WAS indeed removed. Lil stinker. Backing up for a second for anyone who missed it, he fell out of their big playset fort onto the wooden edging that keeps wood chips in the play area and landed square on his forearm, which broke it.

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