December 22, 2008
Spencer was pretty proud of his fort, he worked pretty hard at it (with a little help from the older kids and dads shoveled snow.)
Are we sick of the snow yet? Certainly NOT!!! It's been a lot of fun to be snowed in, the kids have been in and out a bazillion times playing in the beautiful white stuff. I did a bit of baking with Ellie and Spencer today, it's been quite relaxing...it's kinda nice having an excuse not to go anywhere. I think Matt and I will do our last minute Christmas shopping tomorrow night before Christmas Eve Day, but other than that we're all set for Christmas day so it's been fun on a slower pase these last few snowy days just hanging out with the kids.
Spencer was pretty proud of his fort, he worked pretty hard at it (with a little help from the older kids and dads shoveled snow.)
Are we sick of the snow yet? Certainly NOT!!! It's been a lot of fun to be snowed in, the kids have been in and out a bazillion times playing in the beautiful white stuff. I did a bit of baking with Ellie and Spencer today, it's been quite relaxing...it's kinda nice having an excuse not to go anywhere. I think Matt and I will do our last minute Christmas shopping tomorrow night before Christmas Eve Day, but other than that we're all set for Christmas day so it's been fun on a slower pase these last few snowy days just hanging out with the kids.
Bre sliding down the way.
Matt and the older kids stayed out way longer than the younger two and myself. As the wind kicked up, the snow was just too cold blowing on the little boys faces! Josh and Spencer were content little campers watching the snow fall from inside the warmth of the front window.
Matt's bother Dave and Stacie had their baby yesterday, Wed. December 17th around 4:30pm-ish at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue. Little Mazie Lynn Jackson weighed 8'-6oz and she was 19 1/2" long. She is a VERY sweet and adorable little thing, simply perfect...We had fun visiting with the happy family last night at the hospital. We timed it right and the kids got to see their cousins as well so it was good.
Mazie with mama.
Daddy Dave helping Gavien hold his new sister. 
No school again today...SNOW!
Bre and Amelia.
Here's another one w/ Ellie & her friend Madison...just got an update in, no school tommorrow either. Looks like Winter break came early this year!
Monday evening, we had the Noble family Christmas party at the Federal Way Church bldg. Still being a school night & since Winter Break hadn't started, they were promptly starting dinner at 6:00pm. Well, unfortunately Matt was still in the paint booth at the shop finishing painting a car at 6pm. So all of the kids and I were set ready to go for a bit, it gave me a chance to snap a photo of them under their stockings before we left the house. Matt is a busy man, bless his big heart...he's on the go all day long! We ended up getting to the party at around 6:45pm, a tad late but we didn't miss much and there was still plenty of food to go around. Rod & 
Traditional Pinata Action, 
Aunt 
It's always wonderful to see the kids great grandparents G & G Noble being the initial off-spring holders of the great Noble family. As I sat with my granparents with the opportunity to chat with them a bit, I reminded g-pa who I and the kids were (with age his memory is sadly slipping) but he is the cutest g-pa ever! He asked and so which man is your husband? And as I pointed Matt out to him, g-pa says..."he's a good looking man." I responded "yah, I know that's why I married him," Yep, strictly on the looks...just kidding honey! 
We finally got to meet Mike (my sister 
We can't believe how fast little David (Leah & Charlies little man) is growing! He is such a happy camper and content little guy so this is a rare face, it was getting late and he was ready to call it a night. I was happy to see that he's been using the 
(#1 Happy Spencer & Dad)
(#2 Mad Spencer and Dad) 
We visited the Old Cannery in our lovely town of little ole' Sumner Saturday. It really is a fun place for the whole family over many holidays.
Moodolph the red nosed COW?
JP Pathches my absolute childhood FAVORITE!
We went to the Sauleyce's b-day party at McDonalds after our visit to the Old Cannery.
And Lo & Behold, the prayers of our children were answered...it started to snow on our way home from the party! Yippy, it'll be fun to have some of this beautiful white stuff over the holiday season!!! Maybe we'll have a white Christmas this year, or is that too unheard of around here???
The kids sang in the program at our Christmas party at church over the weekend, my kids are in the picture above somewhere. We brought our neighbors the Thomas family w/ us & some of their kids went up and joined ours on stage, it was cute.
PJ time & Decisions, Decisions....I took these pj pictures last week. Josh and his two year old independence comes out in the evening hours after bath time when he chooses his own pjs (of course after throwing them all on the floor.) Then he gives every effort to dress himself saying "I do it, I do it," until he realizes he needs moms help most of the time. My how it would save time if he'd just let me dress him from the beginning, I get to learn patience as he learns to dress himself.
Decision made & all dressed!
Our Wintery Pink Fairy Princess.
Josh went to his first friend b-day party (he's been to his share of cousin parties) but this was his first FRIEND party, the little neighbor boy Mitchell down the street is a month apart from Josh, he had his 2nd b-day party this afternoon & Spencer and Josh both got to go.
Josh taking his turn pulling the string on Mr. Curious George Pinata.
