the anniversary and snow...

Monday was our seventh wedding anniversary. What sort of special stuff does one do to celebrate one's seventh wedding anniversary? Please allow me to pontificate. At the Lyons' abode we celebrated our seventh anniversary by eating DE-LISH home made french onion soup topped off with the same cheese as The Stinky Cheese Man was made of. After eating the best french onion soup ever, we all piled on the couch and proceeded to watch Elf, one of my favorite holiday flicks. Amid the guffaws of my husband and myself, both of our precious little monsters managed to drift off the land of dancing sugar plums and flying Buzz Lightyears. Since both Logan and Caleb are currently battling ear infections and colds, we watched the rest of the movie with a symphony of little boy snores. Not a bad way to spend an anniversary if you ask me.

Tuesday was fairly uneventful, just the usual hustle and bustle of the holidays. And then Wednesday came. The snowiest snow day of the year so far.

I took this picture about thirty minutes into the all day flurry fest.

Caleb has never seen snow before today. When he woke up this morning he and I sat in the bay window in the kitchen and just watched the snow flakes float around the backyard. He would get totally amped when he would recognize one of his Tonka Trucks underneath all the snow. He just grinned and pointed and grunted. It was a moment very close to Logan's first snow experience. Both make me sort of well up when I think about them. Sniff.

Logan slept in this morning. As he made his way down the stairs, he stopped on the first landing and hunched down and looked out into the backyard. "It's 'nowing Mommy!" It was all the more heart-squeezing with his crazy bed head and sleepy eyes thrown into the mix. Logan made his way downstairs and took Caleb by the hand and walked him to window and said, "Wah Wah, this is 'now. Daddy put it in the yard for us this morning." Did your heart just explode? Mine did.

Seeing as my two precious little monsters are still sick, we did not bundle up and go out to play. Instead we made cranberry orange bread! Logan already knows the joy of licking beaters and bowls. Caleb just knows it's cool to do whatever big brother does. Caleb has Mud and Bugs cereal crumbs plastered all over his face, not a five o'clock shadow, in case you're wondering.