This Christmas, being in Oregon, we decided to go out and cut down a tree! My brother and I planned a day that he could help me with the kids! And just our luck, that day is the day our snow storm started! Due to the fact that we were snowed in, we had no Christmas tree. I was completely bummed since Mason was finally understanding Christmas. The two times I left my house during the storm, I slid down my street, with chains and all wheel drive. So I decided, the heck with a real tree, lets make one. I found a box in the garage. I drew an outline of a tree, cut it out and the boys and I painted it. We tacked lights on it, painted some ornaments and made ribbon bows! At first I thought , how ghetto, but actually we had a blast and I must admit, it came out cuter than I thought! 
I guess snow is rare here in Oregon! In 10 days we had quite a bit of snow! So beautiful to look out and see and let the kids play in but not fun to drive! Mason had three weeks off from therapy because the driving conditions were so bad. We had 6 inches of snow, 2 inches of ice and 6 more inches of snow on top of that. My car doors were frozen shut!! Craziness!! All thawed out now!! I miss that Vegas sunshine!!
Grandma's visit and all those yummy decorated Halloween cookies! She even got Mason to eat a cookie, with frosting... imagine that!!! Good work Grandma!
We've been waiting for the day our boys would realize how much fun it is to interact with eachother. Mason has a hard time with social skills and poor little Riley has been following Mason around trying to get him to notice he is there! Today it finally happened! All it took was a good day for Mason and the silly little red tunnel! Finally these two boys have realized the joy of brotherhood! 
