FIRE, FROSTY, FORWARD

WOW! What a busy week this has been on top of Christmas preparations. We started the week off with an early morning FIRE at Jongr's school on Monday. It burned through 6 second grade classrooms and their is smoke damage throughout the building. They lost all of their computers and other technology. It is so sad! Our awesome principal though had every grade assigned to a new school for Tuesday, so the kids only missed one day of school. It has been a hard week on the teachers and administration and interesting for the kids. Thankfully the fire didn't harm anyone and it only 2 weeks before Christmas break and we are going to be able to come back to the school in January.
The weather has been very FROSTY here in Houston for us. We actually had snow on Wednesday evening that stuck to the ground and the cars. It was weird to see snow at our own house. It has been more than 7 years since we have seen it fall where we live. We are especially grateful for our cold weather clothing and a special thanks to Aunt Jen for sending Tucker a coat. We sure have needed it this week! We had FROST on the windows of the car on Friday morning too, I had to dig out the old ice scraper that we keep in the trunk for our trips to ID.
Jonev has mastered the FORWARD motion of crawling. He was chasing me around the kitchen yesterday as I was baking away. I would walk one way and he would follow me and then grab my leg. He wanted to be up and seeing what I was doing. He loves the mixers and is fascinated by them, just like the other boys. They all enjoy helping me to cook whatever I am making and are already pretty handy in the kitchen for their ages.

We are busily making the final preparations this week for our trip to IN for Christmas. It is like Christmas is a week early for us because I have to be done by next Wednesday so that we can pack and be ready to go. LOL!