Friday, December 24, 2010

A White Christmas…

…can sometimes be a bad thing.

When we woke up this Christmas Eve the yard was covered with snow and the snowflakes were still falling!IMG_3708

Benjamin shoveled our driveway and then did one of the neighbor’s driveways.

I guess that I was so delighted by the sights that met my eyes I forgot to check the settings on my camera and later found that it was still set to night photography from the night before.  Just in case you were wondering why the photos look like they were taken in the 1980s.

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(Right) He’d l strike any pose as long as it wasn’t a smile (Left) What a menacing look! Now I know why he’s always the villian in our videos.

 

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UPS stopped by a couple of times today to deliver some last minute gifts.

 

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Our long time friends and cousins of the Bauwens family got to drive down from Detroit on Christmas leave. They came over to our house and visited-it was so good to see them!

We all really pulled together this evening and started getting the living room in order. Mom finished the trim, so we could move the piano against the wall.  Take a look at the time lapse video below of us tried to get our construction site ready for Christmas tomorrow morning.

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We laid down some of the left over carpet to use as a rug tomorrow morning

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We were walking out of the van to meet up with Grandma & Glenn when they called and told us that they had slipped on the roads and were in the median of a highway. By the time that we grabbed a tow strap and drove to where they were a couple of people had stopped including a guy with a big truck who towed them out. Their Mustang (rear-wheel drive, big engine, light car) hit some ice and spun around for awhile, when it stopped they were facing the oncoming traffic so they slid backwards down the hill. Thankfully neither of them had gotten hurt even though they were a little shaken up and also the car didn’t get messed up.  Glenn turned the car around and we followed him back home. The roads were in pretty bad shape and we had a slow drive back home.

We still had some wrapping to do and had to setup some decorations before going to bed and we fell asleep from 2am-3am.

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