Three Peas in a Pod: December

First things first bucket list pictures:

Send cards to the soldiers - check

write Santa - check

Take a picture of Emma everyday - check for this week

Donate old clothes - check

Watch Elf and The Grinch - check

Make Cinnamon ornaments - check Emma helped me (Last picture on the collage)

Start a new family tradition- check (Emma gets a new book to unwrap every night, see middle picture ^)

Drink LOTS of Hot Coco - check we may have went through a box just these passed few days

Emma knows who Santa is and does a great impression of him..." Ho ho ho" while patting her belly.

So Texas had a huge Ice Storm, which is so crazy because it was 80 degrees for two days than BAM! freezing cold and ice. It's been crazy. We literally could not leave our complex because we don't have 4 wheel drive. .On the second day of going crazy and stuck inside all day we HAD to get out we HAD to get some food and other things before Sunday. Randomly Jared went down to the truck to get something and he remembered her had chains! Crazy that people from Arizona have chains right. So we started the van it only took 45 minutes of turning the van on for us to even get the ice off the window! put the chains on and went for it. It was going so good we felt like rock stars, i called a family that lives in our same complex to see if they needed anything. They said yes and he wanted to come. So we went down a huge hill.....that was our mistake Jared got a little sacred and went on the breaks. We did not hit one car. We cam seriously with in INCHES of hitting one but heavenly father was with us! Finally after an hour of just being in the complex we made it to Wal*Mart. Wal*Marts parking lot was ice, nothing else. I think i had at least 5 anxiety attacks. We made it inside and omg! I have never seen a store so empty in my life! The bread was gone, the soup gone, water bottles gone! You would think the would is ending! Anyways after 30 minutes in the store we got back in and headed home. took us another 30 minutes to drop our friend off and get back to our place. After this ice storm i have decided...i hate the cold, and i hate the ice. There were at least 6-8 cars in our complex that hit. I am so grateful that we were not one of them. ( The picture on the bottom left is Emma all bundled up to Walmart ^)