Christmas Festivas

We had our annual celebration of Christmas with the Nettesheim siblings that live here. We decorated the Gingerbread houses that Ben made, the kids acted out the Christmas pageant, and we exchanged gifts. So much fun!! My boys were bouncing off the walls and couldn't wait for it to begin! For weeks they had been talking about it!

Diego was a sheep, Luca was a wiseman, Alessandro was Joseph

Icy!!!

Yet another reason I hate the location of our house!!! Every winter we have problems with this big hill! Right before I took this picture I was watching a car slide down the hill backwards because the road was too icy to make it up. That has happened to me on more than one occasion. And often I have trouble getting in the driveway because our driveway gets icy which is also an incline, so I'm stuck with a bunch of kids to walk through the snow into the house. And trying to walk up an icy road with two little ones to carry up and 2 bigger ones to watch, is not fun! I hate it! BUT, with all that complaining, I have to say, I do realize we are very blessed to have a home and I am grateful for that.