It's NOT a Snowman.....

It's a snow Miss!

After months, if not years, of wanting and wishing for the chance to make a snowman and snowballs for a fight, after seeing it on all their favorite cartoons and their favorite Christmas movies, FINALLY today was the day.

Dace and Zade decided on their own that they didn't want a snowman but rather their Sissy would be their muse.  Hence, Snow Miss was built.

Shortly after the first photos were taken, SnowMiss received cosmetic surgery and earned herself a smile.  

It was gorgeous weather here today in Utah.  We were outside for over an hour and nobody got cold.  They even took turns riding scoorters and the crazy coupe in the driveway.  Happy Kids = Happy Household.

I rarely catch Ammon with a good face but didn't want to leave him out.  

 And sitting on the stairs and being able to peek through is definite a favorite here at Gramma's.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Merry Christmas from the Deans

From Sand to Snow

We went from this:

drove this:

Just a quaint 3440 mile jaunt, battling rain, icy roads, snow for the first time in 8 years, a flu of vomiting and diaahrea that circulated through all of us, a van heater that quit,....need I go on?  but we survived in one piece to Utah to spend a week there with family then headed up to Canada for Christmas with my family.

And landed here in this:

We are no longer South Carolinians.  We have moved.  Stay tuned for more details later on.  But we are having fun here for the holidays.  The kids are meeting uncles and aunties on my side for the first time, some of them, and are loving their first experiences with snow.  The wind chill has been relentless so the trips outside are very brief.  Zade braves it more than the rest.  He is in heaven.  2 days away from christmas and the energy and excitement is already through the roof.  Gotta love that magic!