Christmas Part II

Each year the girls and I try to make some type of photo ornament for the grandparents. This was our 2019 ornament. It was one of the better ones we've done as it was really fun and easy for the girls to put together. (Usually we make one for our own tree too!)

On Friday Dana's family arrived to celebrate Christmas. Yesterday was a beautiful winter day with a pretty snowfall all day. Grandma, the girls and I took advantage and went out to play in the snow while Daddy was on the snowblower.

Documentation that I was playing outside! Ha! It wasn't so bad this time.

The girls got so many fun and nice gifts...

Our celebration is currently extending a bit longer as we are snowed in. Most of Fargo has closed down with no travel advised as well as portions of Interstates 94 and 29.

Here is a drift in front of our downstairs window, but also pictured is one of the two windows on which Dana finished the trim work. He just has a few more windows in our lower level to complete and then he's done with updating all the trim. Yahoo!

What better to do during a snow day than to play with new Lego sets!

Dana went out to blow snow a few times. Grandma went out with Clara right before it got dark. It was so funny watching them out there.

We played many rounds of a new game Dana picked up called 'Loaded Questions.' Each player writes down answers to a 'loaded question' (like what's the worst smell in the world?) and then the guesser tries to match up the players with the answers. It's pretty fun and although it's for ages beginning at 10, Clara was able to still catch on pretty well.

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