Growing Snowflowers

One of Santa's Helpers!

We woke up this Christmas Eve morning to a beautiful full moon ... although it was a bit brisk to go outside with my camera I stood on our front step and took a picture through the trees. It was a lot prettier than this photo, but I thought I'd post it anyway.

When Piper woke up she grabbed her Christmas dress and black shiny shoes and said "okay, lets get ready for Church Daddy"...she was more than a little disappointed to learn that she will have to wait until this afternoon to go...I think at this point in her life, the motivation is that cookies are served freely at our Church and she knows that if she puts on her best smile she can just about get anyone to give her one!

Piper and her Daddy went out on a last minute mission, to gather a few 'bits & pieces' for Christmas dinner and our first attempt at making cookies for Santa. When I went outside to bring in the trash cans I came face to face with our neighbor Brady who in the spirit of the season had snowblown our driveway and was shovelling our walk...thanks Brady, you made Mike's Christmas wish come true! No shovelling!

We have always thought about the need for a snowthrower...especially during the five years we lived in Vermont, when three feet of snow could fall in the matter of a day! We've been in Minnesota for two and a half years now and we still want one, but have never got up the courage to write the check. There have always been so many more important things that a snowthrower seemed 'frivolous', but now that we are going to have two little ones, and the fact that Mike travels for his job, perhaps we should consider a small one for those winter blizzards that just about knock your socks off and can leave you stranded at home with no chance of getting your car down your driveway...hmm, perhaps its a good idea after all.