Wouldn't You Snow It?

Last Sunday (the 9th), I was in the Hallmark store located in our mall. Dog-gone it if everything in there isn't cuter than cute. But I've gotta tell ya, one book in particular sucked me right in and I fell in love with it instantly. So, you can imagine my excitement when I found out it was part of a series! "You mean there's MORE?!"
It's a group of books about little towns of snow-people! At first, I was wary they were about Santa but he's nowhere to be found in these wonderful books! Just the cutest snow-people ever! And the icing on the cake: they rhyme! I am a sucker for a good poem and these stories just roll right off your tongue!
I bought the newest one, Snow Place Like Home and asked about the rest of the series. Unfortunately, Hallmark only carries the current book. So, naturally I scoured my next favorite shopping desination: ebay! And I found every single one (at awesome prices!)
I thought I'd share them with you in case you love this sort of thing, too (in no particular order):

The Snowbelly Family of Chillyville Inn

Snow What Fun

The Snow Must Go On!

Snow Happy to be Here!

Snow Place Like Home

'Leaf" Me Alone!

The other day, I had resolved to attack the multiple layers of leaves in the back yard. And because Eric loves that sort of thing (raking, sweeping, vacuuming, etc.), I got us both bundled up and assigned us each a rake.
We were actually doing fairly well, considering Gracie and Ryleigh thought our pile was purely for their enjoyment! But as we kept raking and the pile kept growing, I just couldn't help it...

LEAF FIGHT!

My mom had actually arrived while we were raking, and we didn't know it. She had snapped some pictures and captured all the "action"! It was so much fun!

Halloween Hero

Despite having seen him in it for the last month, I still thought Eric looked adorable in his SpiderMan suit. This was his first year trick-or-treating and he was so excited! And he did great--knocking, yelling "TRICK OR TREAT!" and saying "Thank you!" as he ran back to show me what he got!
We went with my mom and little sister, Shelley, who dressed up as Morticia.
After he had had his fill of going door-to-door, we went back home and had just as much fun handing out candy to the other trick-or-treaters!

Shelley & Eric in full get-up before heading out!

At our neighbor's house; Eric's a little used to going right on in!