SLEDDING VIDEO

SLEDDING!

We've enjoyed an incredible amount of snow since we arrived in the "north" last week! It snowed within hours of us getting to North Carolina. We arrived in West Virginia to several days in a row of snow! We even had a fresh couple of inches when we woke up on Christmas. It's been a welcome winter wonderland for us flamingos.

Yesterday we took Lucy and Zoro (The Huffman dogs) on a walk on the carriage trial. The dogs had a blast running in the snow and we really enjoyed hiking the trail in the snow. We played with ice sickles, made snow angels and enjoyed the snow covering the woods!

Today the kids went sledding right across the street. There's a little hill that's the perfect size for them! Tim was at the top of the hill to give them a little push and then Andy would stop them before they went into the road! They loved it!!!!!

Jack, our little dare devil sled by himself and even put his hands in the air!! Way to go Jackie!!

How could I resist making hot chocolate for these two cuties????

Celebrating Christmas

An excerpt from my favorite Advent Devotional Book, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.

People love to celebrate. People love to break from the routine of life and celebrate. All over the world right now lights are strung and special music is being broadcast and trees are decorated and gifts have been lovingly purchased and lavish feasts are being prepared. The curse of C.S. Lewis's land of Narnia was that is was always winter but never Christmas. What monotony and tedium and bleak weariness! Life must be punctuated with celebration. It's a universal human impulse. And where did this inclination come from? God created us this way. "What is the chief end of man?" the Westminster Catechism asks. "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." Now, that is celebration worthy of the name!

And we who belong to Jesus have powerful reasons to celebrate. God has come to us. God has shown us that this life is not the only life we will ever know, and that this world is not the only reality we will ever experience. God has thrown open the gates of heaven to us through Christ his Son. We have seen the celebration going on within those gates. And that's where we're headed!

TIME TO CELEBRATE!! Merry Christmas from the Huffmans!

Thacker Christmas

Jack and Emma Grace have loved playing with Sophie! Even though it's been cold, we've spent a good amount of time outside!We also enjoyed lots of indoor fun too!

Tonight I'm seeing my brother and extended family! Pictures to come!!!

Emma Grace's First Snow Man

On Friday I wore flip flops and short sleeves. We were excited to come north for colder weather. It started snowing within two hours of us arriving in North Carolina! A lot of it was gone today but Dan still took Emma Grace out and helped her make her first first snow man!


How cute! YAY for grandparents! We have lots of fun planned for the next two weeks!

One hour and counting

I have one hour at Starbucks and I have a lofty goal! While I'm sipping my Holiday Caramel Brulee Latte, I'm going to attempt to go back and update my blog from this past two months. Typically I just post when I have time, and if I'm too busy I just skip out. (see the past few months that only have 2 posts in them? That's because I've been a tad overwhelmed with life!) But, there are so many great things that have happened and I don't want to leave them out. So in honor of Alisa, the most faithful retro blogger I know, I will attempt to catch up....in one hour!
Happy speed blogging to me! So scroll down to Nov 1st to retro read our life!

A Fun Age

Emma Grace is at a fun age for helping in the kitchen! She helped me make cupcakes for Jack's Birthday! She loved doing the sprinkles. And her favorite part? Washing the dishes. I think she takes after her Aunt Katie (Huff) in being super neat and tidy! She got all dressed up for the occassion! Here she is enjoying the fruit of her labor!