Home for Christmas - Part 4

We got back to Laramie on Sunday night, the 19th, and were ready to spend the next few days playing games, doing last minute Christmas shopping, going to a couple more basketball games, and enjoying being around family.  My sister and her family were finally up there for the week, so we had a full house, but it was so much fun!

On Monday night and all day Tuesday, we got the big storm that had been predicted a day earlier.  We ended up getting around 12 inches of snow, and despite there being warmer temperatures afterwards (in the 40's...it felt GREAT to us!) we were still able to have somewhat of a white Christmas because a lot of the snow stuck around.

The guys (Cameron and Kipp) took full advantage of all that snow by building a snowfort and a HUGE (maybe 6 or 6 and 1/2 feet??) snowman. The kids loved playing around in the snow outside too...unfortunately on Wednesday, Miley came down with a fever and a sore throat or something and ended up feeling crummy for the rest of our trip. :( This put a little damper on all the fun, because she wanted one of us to hold her a lot of the time, and overall she was just a little crabby, but she perked up every now and then and was able to have a little bit of fun.

The boys decorated the snowman with some very random things...bobbers, and a ball from our ladderball game...keep this in mind for later...

Yes, Miley's pants are off in this picture...it was actually pretty warm outside, and in my defense, we had gone inside and taken off her wet clothes from walking through all the snow, and just came back out to take the picture!  :)

While the kids were napping on Tuesday, after the snow fort and the snowman had been built, my mom and I ran to do a little bit of shopping (that seems to be the theme of these posts, huh?  We love our shopping time...what can I say?).  The boys took the opportunity of being *mostly* kid free (I think Cruze was napping at the time too, but I wasn't there) and played some catch with the football out in the street...this has become somewhat of a regular occurrence for the guys when we are all together for Christmas.  My sister got some great action shots of them...

Now boys will be boys...we all know that.  I guess they are always little kids at heart.  So anyway, when my mom and I pulled back onto the street, we noticed that the some of the snowman's decorations had....ahem..."fallen."  We then realized that some things were a little too strategically placed too have fallen there by accident.  Yes...our very mature husbands made this little ditty and left it like that in our front yard for our whole neighbohood to see...

*WARNING....may not be safe for work or for younger viewers...parental discretion advised.  :)

Lovely, no?  After pulling in, I promptly removed the...urm...balls from their place.  :)