It has definitely been a white Christmas this year. We went to my parents' cabin in Oregon where we had our fair share of snow. While we were there, we got at least two feet of snow -- on top of the already four or five feet.
Christmas morning started off bright and early - around 6:30 am. Ryder was so excited to see what Santa had brought him. Naturally, the one present Ryder was most excited about was his $6 spinning Spiderman toothbrush. According to him,"That was exactly what I wanted. Santa knew!"
Payton had a great Christmas as well. Santa hit up the Hanna Anderson outlet store in Woodinville, WA (thanks to Susie & Tucker for taking me on my one and only outing during our Seattle visit) and scored some adorable outfits for our sweet girl. She was quite content sitting in Daddy's lap grabbing and biting anything and everything she could get her hands on.
When we tried leaving on Saturday morning, we got down to a small town called Elgin and didn't make it any further. As we were driving, the wind gusts were picking up quite fast and created a complete white out. Since we had zero visibility, we drove right into a snow bank that had drifted its way onto the two-lane highway. The car was nearly completely covered in snow, except for the driver's side. With the help of a small pick-up truck, we were able to break my rear bumper and pull out the emergency brake line. (It's in the shop today.) Since that didn't work, a fellow Elgin resident was kind enough to hop on his tractor and pull our car out of the snow bank. As we turned around to drive back up to my parents' cabin to wait it out, we saw that three more cars behind us had also ran into the snow bank. It was pretty intense. I felt claustrophobic with the snow all around the car.
While Ryder, Payton and I stayed warm and dry inside the car, poor Jeremy was out in the blowing snow trying to get us out.
We did have a great time at the cabin though and here are some pics from our very white Christmas.
Payton and Grandma Jan, getting ready for Santa Claus.
For some reason, it was quite easy for Ryder to go to bed on Christmas Eve ... he knew Santa was coming and he would wake up to a room full of presents!
Jeremy enjoying a nice cup of hot cocoa on Christmas morning. Payton, looking adorable, of course. You look adorable too, Jeremy.
Miss Payton was so excited about her new books from our neighbors, Scott & Maggie.
Payton & Grandpa Chris, relaxing after an exhausting morning of opening presents.
A Christmas bath.
Come on Grandpa, let's go for a snowmobile ride.
Ryder watching Grandpa on the tractor snow blower.
Ryder even got to help Grandpa blow snow.
Jeremy and Ryder digging our cars out of the snow! So much snow. Unbelievable.
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