Christmas Tree (Part II)

The other half of the pictures!

Here is Jamie and Juliet.

Calvin and Jack wrestling in the snow.

Now, this story is a little funny. Calvin was standing next to a tree, sampling the tasty snow. Merrill decided that the tree would be perfect in their living room, and started to cut it down. Calvin was still standing next to it. As Calvin happily stood there, eating his snow... we hear the rustle of pine needles... and then the crash of a very large Christmas tree on top of Calvin. Merril said he thought it would fall the other way. But nope. It fell directly on top of Calvin. Because I was taking pictures of him eating show, I saw the whole thing through the viewfinder of my camera. The whole time, Jared was yelling, "AMY... AMY... AMY!!!" I guess he was too blinded by the vision of a tree falling on his wife... to care about the fact the tree was falling on his only son. Luckily no one was hurt. Calvin just ended up freaked out because... well... A CHRISTMAS TREE JUST FELL ON HIS HEAD... and he was covered in all the snow that was previously on the tree!

Fun view from the side of the road where we were parked.

Jocelyn was a little turd. She decided that it was "too cold," despite the fact it was in the 40's. Which I don't really understand... because it's usually in the 40's when she goes to school in the morning... and she refuses to wear a jacket most of the time. But, here she was in full snow gear, and FREEZING! She just loves to complain. We were going to have a family picture taken (which will be on our Christmas Card), so I made her at one point get out of the truck. That's when I took this picture. *forced smile*

...and this picture.

After the shock of the tree incident... Calvin was happy again.

Tess throughly enjoyed herself too. She was wearing snow pants that my mom had bought for Katelyn 4 years ago... so I smoothed out a spot in the snow and sat her down. She is my ONLY kid that has not screamed at this age after being sat in the snow.  Instead she was very curious.

She picked up some, and attempted to eat it. It was funny, because you wouldn't have thought snow tasted like pickles... or lemons. But you would have known after watching the MAJOR pickle face she made after putting a microscopic piece of snow in her mouth! I think she wasn't expecting the fluffy stuff to be cold!

This was about the point she decided her bumm was getting cold.

Then of course, there was hot chocolate.

Comments

[Kristi]

That picture of Calvin crying is priceless!! I am sure it was sad at the moment, but always fun to look back on. Glad he didn't get hurt!

[Jamie C.]

SoRrY about my bonehead husband. In the hot chocolate picture of Calvin and Katelyn, I was kneeling down in the background to get some hot chocolate and the odd weight of Juliet in the back pack totally made me fall on my kiester. Thanks for capturing my splat!! :)

[jenney]

LOL about the tree!!! That's too funny!