It doesn't snow that often in wales and typically when it does the accumulation is minimal to none. However today is an exception. It started in the early morning hours and still going strong at noon. There is about 5 inches now. Schools are cancelled, business's are closed -snow day!
I came out to my car this morning to find some interesting patterns from Jack Frost (in addition to my doors being froze shut). The exterior light from the garage gave the patterns some interesting depth with the angle of the light. Some of these are taken on the roof and others are from the windshield.
Kelly caught this video of Abbie Dancing recently and she loves it so we decided to put her in ballet classes for the term to see how she likes it! (In the video there is actually music playing but its really hard to hear)
While we have been having a great time over the holidays, the weather here has been dismall! It has rained almost every day the kids have been off. Today - the first day of 2013 is the first nice sunny day we have had, and you could tell because it felt like everyone was out. We decided to head to Southerndown beach and it turned out we were not the only ones:). Co-incidentally we also found out that there is a yearly tradition of running into the ocean on new years day at Southerndown. It was very windy and cold even though the sun was out. It made us cold just watching them from the cliffs above.
A few photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Churchfarm. Kelly's family has a tradition of opening 'family gifts' on Christmas Eve so we follow that tradition and Christmas morning is for Santa (or Father Christmas as he is known here:). Another tradition is 'Christmas Jammies' which you can see being worn in the photos.
Every year at our house in December one of Santa's Elves comes to watch over the kids to make sure they are being good up until Christmas. He comes each morning and watches from a different place in the house, and each evening he goes back to the North Pole to tell Santa about any good or bad deeds from the day. Some mornings he will supprise the kids with a treat. Kirby is the elf that usually comes to visit, however this year, Kirby had some 'troubles' (possibly due to the move), so a british elf friend of his, "Kipper"took over duties while we are overseas. Tonight is Christmas eve and it will be Kipper's last time visiting until next December! He always finds some ingenious places to sit and every morning the kids have fun trying to find him.
