Eight and Nine

The eighth day on our Christmas countdown was another crazy day. First of all, I jinxed myself by bragging about the girls yesterday. When they came home from school all they did was complain about doing their chores, homework, etc. Sigh.
Then, to top it all off, Kyle and I had to take the van back to Sears so they could try for a THIRD time to fix my tire studs...that they broke and stripped during a routine oil change and tire rotation. This meant that after dinner we had to go back out to pick it up. We live out in the boonies...so this is a 30 minute drive.
All that means is that our activity for the day...decorating a chipboard Christmas tree...happened pretty late last night. Kellen and Jenna put it together and did their decorating last night and Riley finished it up this morning.

Riley decorating the chipboard tree.

It didn't really matter that the girls were up late last night because we woke up to a SNOW DAY! Which was pretty fitting because Day Nine's activity was to make snowman pancakes! I love a snow day and this is our first of the season. Sleep late, watch movies (and Christmas shows), stay in pj's all day....perfection. It's even better this year because Kyle isn't having to get up early to snow blow his way out to go to work. All he has to do is walk down the stairs.

Snowman Pancakes

Ready....Aim....

Fire!

Kellen and Jenna playing in the snow.