A White Christmas!

I knew it was possible, but it is a dream rarely realized for Kentucky kids...a WHITE Christmas! Other than the arrival of the big guy in the red suit, what could be more exciting then sharing a special day with family and getting to sled, feast, and drink hot chocolate. The girls got up EARLY Christmas morning and Sarah dragged us downstairs to find out if she was on the "nice" list this year. She turned the corner and spied a Rapunzel tower and a Rapunzel dress and got her answer. YES! Leah received a VTech remote control doggie and a Thomas the train small train set. We let the girls play for a while and I made a great eggs and bacon breakfast complete with honey butter biscuits (yum). Then we opened the remainder of our presents. What a wonderful morning we spent, looking at the beautiful snowy scene. Sounds like Norman Rockwell, right? Well not exactly, but it was a pretty great Christmas. After naps, we went to Jason and Ashley's new home for some of the best sledding around! Their property backs up to a pond and the dam section features a pretty steep drop that makes for some exciting adventures. Sarah is now spoiled and won't sled in our backyard anymore because "it's to easy for a big girl like me". Ha! Ha!  Here is a sampling of our sledding adventures

From this vantage point, it looks like a normal hill in central Kentucky.  Lots of fun, right?

Up we go...

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And holy cow!  Down they come!  Sarah loved it!

Being from the mountains myself, I am used to this type of sledding experience.  Frankly I am easily bored with sledding around here.  Not anymore!  Thanks Jason for buying this property.  I hope he doesn't mind us hanging around on snowy days.

Now the real fun begins.  Leah's first sledding experience begins.  We have no idea how she will react to the snow.  She has not spent to many moments outside due to the fact that she was pretty much crawling everywhere and had only started walking mere days before this outing.  Needless to say, we looked like the kid in A Christmas story who fell down and could not get back up in this outfit.  This made for a tired mommy. 

Back to Leah.  She had an absolute blast!  What a relief!  Sarah hated the snow at this age.  Leah crawled around trying to eat snow.  She loved sledding and had an overall fantastic time.  Yeah!

David took Alena and Cohen down the hill as well. Where is the sled? LOL!

Chris decided to break out the bright orange ski mask for the event.  We will never lose him!

Sarah is getting much braver these days.  She is going head first down this hill.  Go Sarah!

Do you think she impressed Caden?  I know she is proud.

Here I am on Leah duty.

What a cutie! 

Okay, its getting dark, time for the little one to go back inside.

The big ones don't want to quit.  That is Jason sailing down the hill!  We all went inside, warmed up and had a nice Christmas dinner.  This is definitely a Christmas we will never forget.