Ho! Ho! Ho! and One More Surprise!!!

We thought we were lucky enough just having Nanny here for Christmas this year, but you'll never guess who walked through the door yesterday afternoon??? TREY!!! What a terrific surprise!!! None of us knew he was coming to visit (though this is his usual holiday haunt) ... Bryn kept his secret beautifully!!!

Here's a little peek into the Landsberger7 & Gracie + Nanny and Super Surprise Trey Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas Family & Friends!!!

Twas the night before Christmas

And all through this home

Steve & Brad were going nuts

And Norad said Santa was in Rome ...

Kayla is wired

And so are the twins

Nanny is exhausted

And Rob is out of grins.

I stole away a moment

To drop you a line

To Say Merry Christmas

and throw back some wine.

It's just not the same

For the boys without Trey

And we miss our sweet Bryn

And Baby Colton today.

Uncle Brian and Tammy

The girls, Mamaw too

and dancing Papa John ...

we miss you guys too!

Bobo and Sharon

Grandpa Bob and Jan

Maybe next year?

Wouldn't that be grand?

No presents are wrapped

There's much work to be done

So I'll have to get going

Morning will soon come ...

Then their faces will shine

When Santa's done his part

But right now I'm sending you ...

all the love in our hearts.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

With all our love!!!

Snow Days & Cookie Swaps ... What A Week!!!

This week has been WILD!!! No school Monday - Wednesday ... finally back on Thursday & only half a day on Friday ... talk about living it up!!! On Tuesday & Wednesday, there was a lot of this:

On Thursday night, we held the first annual Landsberger Cookie Swap (and *next year ~ crazy Christmas Sweater) Party. It was loads of fun. All of the girls brought wonderful cookies and we had lots of great snacks. Becca Wilson won the "girl" doorprize ... a gingerbread house to decorate and Karen Degonni won the "mom" prize ... some cookie tools!!! Click the picture above to check out the Wilson-Six blog. Her snow days blog is called "3 Snow Days, 2 Glassees of Wine, & A Partridge in a Pear Tree

And just imagine ... all of this while Rob was on the east coast! ((pat on the back for me!!!)

ICE, ICE Baby ... Again ... With A Little Snow This Time

More precip. last night ... another snow day ... no school today.

The temp is hovering in the teens and everyone is a wee bit anxious ... will we get to go outside? when will we get to go? Is it time to go out yet? How many more minutes? Now?

And so goes the day (I'm guessing).

Just wanted to update. Must go make more snacks and break up a fight.

XOXO,
Ann

ps ~ our computer is on the skids ... working on Bahar's laptop we borrowed last night ... so if updates are few and far between beyond this point, don't worry ... we're working on it!

ICE, ICE Baby!!!

Today's a SNOW DAY!!! ... just without the snow!!! Ice only ... even on the inside of our storm door!!! ... yes, that is where Kayla wrote her name in the ice ... from INSIDE!!! It's not supposed to warm up past freezing until late tomorrow & the weather channel says snow/wintry mix tomorrow as well. EEEEK GADS!!! Then, up to 61 on Thursday??? I love Jim Cantore as much as the next girl, but whaaaa??? We have about a half inch of ice on various parts of the terrain here ... mostly on the driveway & road, but practically none on the grass (I don't much understand global warming, but this seems totally hinky to me). Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock it was 71 degrees and by 6 pm it was only about 25! How crazy is that!!! We've had winds from 20 - 50 mph for the last three days (lots of our neighbors have lost their siding) ... and now this ... but hey, ... nothing like a White Christmas. As for those staying home from school today ... so far, so good ... everyone is getting along and enjoying the long weekend. We'll have to wait and see how long that lasts. Robbie got off to work ... but said the roads were very slick ... he had to go super-slow.

OOPS!!! The door was blocked by the ice ... Kayla had to go out and scrape the ice off so Gracie could go out to potty!!! ... boy, this is one of those times, I'm glad I'm not a dog!!!

Update later ... pray for me!!! :) Ann