Let It Snow

It starting snowing here last night and we woke up this morning to the ground totally covered. Andrew actually took the kids out last night for just a little bit and then he also took them out this morning before church. I got them all dressed up in their snow pants and boots. I was happy to finally be able to use some old clothes of Jackson for Ellie. She will just have to settle with blue snow pants and boots instead of the girly pink because he has them in multiple sizes and she will get to use them the next few years. Ellie was the first one ready. Isn't this your typical snow day picture?

By the time Jackson got ready, Ellie had lost her gloves and was ready to come back in and play with her stroller. But Andrew entertained Jackson by building a snowman. They had a pretty big one, but part of it's head fell off. Our neighbors down the street just moved here this year from California and they were out playing and building a snowman too. They were still out when we came home from church.

Today we finally tried out the new church in town, The Crossing. It is a church that was originally started in Quincy and a group from Kirksville started up a satellite church here. Part of what really drew me in was that the pastor is Joe Belzer. Joe used to be the pastor for Campus Christian Fellowship at Truman, which was were I attended during college. He is a great pastor and a great person and I was excited that he took on this position. The kids enjoyed it. The first thing that caught their attention was a big jungle gym area that they got to play in for just a little bit before church. Then they each went to their own room. Ellie didn't even notice that we left-she just jumped right in playing with everything. Jackson was more used to it since he had gone to children's church at our church. Each kid was assigned a number and if they needed us, they would flash the number on the screen in the main church room. I enjoyed the worship part but the sermon was actually a video feed from the church in Quincy. I think I would like to hear Joe speak a little more. So we'll have to see where we go from here.

Here are a couple pictures of some of our Christmas decs and a little video I forgot to put on earlier. Matthew and Kristin gave Ellie a little piano/radio toy that plays a few different songs and the kids love to dance to it. As soon as one song was finished they would start another one and start dancing again. These aren't even Ellie's best dance moves in the actual clip