Winter Wonderland

Alternate Title: When can the rain come and wash this stuff away??!?! We have had snow on the ground since my last post, and on Sunday night we got dumped on again. At least now the kids are supposed to be out of school! They had 4 snow days last week (wimpy school district would explain two of those). This is the most snow I've ever seen in the Pacific Northwest! Jarrett has been picking up staff in the SUV to get them to work for the last 3 days. The main roads are fine but the neighborhoods have snow packed on them and apparently they don't believe in salt around here because of the impact it might have on the Puget Sound or the salmon or something. I took the kids sledding again today. They never get tired of this stuff! We'll be having that "White Christmas" this year (and it's not even in the form of California fog)!

Merry Christmas to all my friends and family!

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Soccer in December!

Today was Tristan's last regular season soccer game. As you can see, it snowed overnight. The field was very slushy and muddy. It was a very slippery and cold game, but the Rapids came out on top, 7-2. Today is also Tristan's birthday, so there were donuts to celebrate.

Karina paid no attention to the game. She and another little sister made a snowman and threw snow balls.

Just last week, here was the beautiful, sunshiny scene at the last game. Notice the heads hanging down - they were following the coach for a much-needed pep talk.

So you'd think that's it, but the Rapids will face off with other state teams in a tournament beginning in mid-January. Brrrrrr!