White Christmas

Well, we are now 2 weeks into having snow on the ground and I have to say, I don't think this has ever happened before in my lifetime. The last time I measured our accumulated snow, we had just over 13 inches. It snowed about 3 more inches over Christmas Eve and Christmas, but I'm sure we're still near 13-14 inches because of some melting. It has been very fun and enjoyable, but the snow has caused its headaches too. We have been driving Jaime's Lexus everywhere we go which is rear wheel drive. Surprisingly we've only gotten stuck twice, which were in our own driveway (it's sloped upwards.) One night we got stuck, we spent about 1.5 hours digging out the car and then shoveling half the driveway so he could get up into the garage.

Our Christmas was so amazing!! Especially because Andra was actually here for it! It's so much better having them living here. Jaime and I are luckily able to perfect doing both the Hinckley Family and LeBlanc Family Christmas activities every year. We had a huge Christmas Eve feast at my parents house with everybody but Damion's family. Right after that, Jaime and I left to go to the annual Jex Family Christmas Eve gathering at the Ward's home. We had a great time catching up with family and all sorts of fun activities. We only wish more people could have made it. A few families stayed home because of the driving conditions, but there was still a large turnout.
Christmas day was picture perfect! We woke up to tons of fresh snow on the ground and it continued to snow for the majority of the morning. We spent Christmas morning back at my parents house with Andra, Dustin, Brent, Aaron, and my parents. After opening presents and hanging out with the family for a while, Jaime and I left to his sister Nicole's house for our annual Christmas Day Brunch. After stuffing ourselves with pancakes, sausages, hash browns, bacon, eggs, etc, we pretty much laid around and relaxed while the nieces and nephews played with their new toys.
Later in the day, Jaime and I met back up with my siblings and we all went to see the new movie, "Valkyrie", which I thought was a great movie. We finally retired back at home and spent another hour digging the Lexus a path through the driveway again. For the remainder of the night we played our new Xbox games. (I got Jaime "Dirt" and "Grid" and he got me "Shaun White Snowboarding.") It was such a fun day. I'm sad that it will be another year till Christmas. Here are some pictures from the last week or so.

Pawsi watching the birds in our backyard.

Lexus and Pawsi enjoying their new Christmas present.



Lexus wondering what I'm cooking. She's pretty scared of actually getting up on the countertop now because last time she walked across the hot stove and burnt her foot. So now she just sits on the bar stool and looks at me like this.

Our Christmas Lights are buried under lots of snow. But it sure looks cool.

Pawsi in what my dad calls his "Battle Chair."

Me doing a hand stand on my snowboard.

Lexus being cute playing in Jaime's snow clothes.

I'm watching Andra and Dustin snowboarding down the hill in my parents neighborhood.