North Carolina Trip!

For Christmas, we gave the kids a box with snow pants, a snow globe, and a map from our house to a cabin in North Carolina. Then we told them we were taking them there to see snow from December 28-30, 2014. They were THRILLED!

Love Bailey's shocked face!!

We loaded up the car (thank GOD we have a van, LOL) and headed out early on December 28. We reserved a little log cabin that was really exciting for the kids. This was also their first road trip and first time seeing mountains.

Unfortunately it rained for two days and wasn't quite cold enough for snow. We did get to visit Grandfather Mountain and walk across the mile-high swinging bridge, though! We also mined for gems and saw people skiing on Sugar Mountain.

We contemplated leaving early and heading somewhere else, but we decided to stay and do snowtubing at Hawksnest on the 30th. I'm glad we did because it flurried that day AND we got to snow tube, which was a first for all of us! It was loads of fun, too!!

I'll have to scan the photos of snow tubing and upload those as well. I think we had a very nice time and hopefully made some great memories.

Christmas

Once again we had a wonderful, blessed Christmas. Santa was very good to us and I was thankful that the kids let us sleep until 7:00!

Here are some of the highlights:

Later we'll go to Mimi and Grandpa's house to have Christmas with the Blom side. So far, it's been a wonderful day.

Happy 9th birthday, Emily!

Today my sweet girl is 9 years old. Nine!! We had her birthday party about a week ago at Chuck-E-Cheese's. She was thrilled with the party but I wasn't impressed. They are like a party machine in there. Very militant--pizza NOW, cake NOW, etc. But it was what she wanted and I think she had a lot of fun. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the day.