christmas time... what does that entail for most? the smell of mom baking cookies in the kitchen, the kids all sitting around the christmas tree reading christmas stories, the house filled with the quiet sounds of mom's favorite christmas melodies as she hums along to the cd player, everyone focused on the true meaning of christmas, a cute little snowman in the front yard... not for us!! if you were at the petersen house yesterday you wouldn't have seen any of that. mom, me, kimble and carter were outside building a ginormous sledding hill out of the almost 2 feet of snow we got.

cortney was inside making chicken noodle soup for dinner that night, homemade noodles passed down through the generations, dad was shoveling other peoples' driveways and then for FHE we all got pulled behind the suburban on our sleds!!!

i couldn't feel my face for a while! but oh so worth the frostbite. :]

i also talked daddy into letting me snowboard behind the car. that was a blast. now with all the snow the boys have some friends over and they are playing snowbaseball... with a glove. :]



we love them. :]

merry christmas everyone.
please be safe where there is snow!
love to all,
kelsey ellen