SNOWFALLING IN WASHINGTON

The weatherman was right. It started snowing (mixed with rain) this evening around 8:00 p.m. and it is still coming down at this hour. Only now it is just the snow. Butch is not quite sure what to make of it since he has never seen snow before. Mom called Brandy to have her tell Halle about it since they too moved up here from the O.C. in Southern California this past September. Next thing mom saw was Brandy outside taking pictures too. Mimi is quite ecstatic about the whole ordeal and cannot wait to go outside to play in it tommorrow.

KUNG FU PANDA

Tomorrow is Zoe's 5th birthday but we celebrated it today since there was a early release day at school and Mimi's kindergarten class was able to stay home. Shelley had a small pizza party for Zoe at the house and afterward they all decorated their own cupcakes. There was a houseful of kids. There was Zoe, Blake, Mimi, Alex, Halle, Erin, Olivia, and their siblings Bailey, Braden, Nate, Liam and Patrick. The kids all had loads of fun together.

When all was said and done, Mimi stayed at Zoe's while mom went back to Costco for more Christmas decorations. Mom absolutely loves having a Costco close to our home nowadays.

Then it came time to pick Mimi and Blake up from Zoe's and bring them home. Zoe was wanting to come over to the house also and so she did. While the kids were playing Kung Fu Panda warriors (Zoe=tigress, Mimi=monkey, Blake=master shifu), mom was outside hooking up our generator. The weatherman says that we are in for a wind and rainstorm tonight and mom does not feel like going out in the dark to hook it up in case the power goes out like it did last Sunday. We are expected to have snow tommorrow and Sunday. "Woo Hoo!!!" says Mimi.