December

First of all, I can't believe it's December.  Where did Fall go?  Anyway - we've been busy.  Abram had a friend from school over this weekend (along with her parents) and we made Christmas cookies for their teachers. 

Abram and Katelyn after cookie baking

Liz came over to help watch Abram so Josh and I could get some chores done.  He looks pretty comfortable!


Just to warn you this next story has nothing to do with Abram and is pretty much the ramblings of someone who spent to much time in the cold.

For those of you not in the midwest, we had about 10 inches of snow this past week.  Josh and I both spent time in the driveway shoveling late into the night.  Josh started at one end while I watched Abram and then once he got tired he came inside and I went back out.  This was really cold, wet, heavy snow that stuck to the shovel.  So as I'm scooping only a few bits of snow would come off and the rest would still be stuck on the shovel so it was a long process.   As I got closer to reaching the part of the driveway Josh had already scooped I got excited and was reminded of the main character in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

He was digging his way out of jail....I'm digging my way out the driveway
He could only dig as fast as he could bring the dirt out to the yard in his pant leg...I could only dig as fast as I could knock off the snow
When he finally escaped it was raining...When I reached the end it was snowing

I was so happy with my analogy that I made Josh take a picture of me after I finished.  I've inserted a picture of Andy after his prison escape to show you how similar we are :)  Happy Winter!