It's Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas! / Nelson Notes

It's Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas!

12.15.2019

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!! Look at that beautiful winter wonderland.

We enjoyed our first big snowfall this weekend: inches where we live and a couple of feet up in the mountains! The best part is that it's cold enough to stick around for a while. I love going up into the South Hills after a fresh layer of snow has fallen. The snow hanging on the evergreen branches just feels magical. It makes me giddy with happiness... until about February. Haha. But for now, I'm soaking it in for all it's worth.

After a few chores around the house yesterday, Bron and I loaded the boys up into the truck to take them sledding for the first time this season. The hill was surprisingly uncrowded. Bron helped the boys cut some brand new tracks in the snow and they careened down the hill over and over again. I'm pretty sure they all got a face full of powder at one time or another!

Conrad would not keep his gloves on. He complained that his hands were cold, so he'd take his gloves off only to stick his hands in the snow. That routine was obviously not working for him, but a couple of cups of hot chocolate seemed to reverse the damage. Conrad is such a happy kid. He really had a good time overall and chatted my ear off about it.

After our snowy sledding adventure, we returned home for some dry clothes and then took the boys into town for dinner and some Christmas shopping. We really wore them out! Sunday morning I felt so stupid walking into their room after 8am to wake them for church. Who wakes three sleeping boys?!?

Good memories I hope we'll get to repeat a few more times this winter.