Chapter 21 Let It Snow!
"We're home, with a tree." Miley whispered towards the twins as she entered the house, but soon turned around in the open door at the sound of a loud boom. She soon broke into laughter as Travis struggled to stay standing with the ponderous tree in his arms.
"Don't help or anything. Just stand there and laugh."
"I'm holding babies." Miley continued to laugh, as she leaned against the doorway, with Isabella and Meredith in her arms. "It's snowing!"
Travis turned his head around to the little flakes falling onto the now white grass. "And it's sticking. We're in California! It's not supposed to snow. It hasn't in ages."
"I told you to get the other tree."
"Miley that wasn't a tree." Travis laughed, finally making his way to the front porch. "That was a 'Charlie Brown' tree."
"It was cute. And nobody's going to buy it. I felt bad." She followed him into the living room, sitting on the couch, with Isabella and Meredith on her lap. She watched as he finally set the tree into place. "Now you can put the lights up."
"Why do I have to do all the work and you get to do the fun stuff?"
"I'm holding my daughters" Miley laughed, crossing her left leg over her right. "And you're not. Santa Claus is going to bring you two lots of presents for being such a good girls."
"Eee!" Isabella squealed staring at the lights. Miley laughed at her yells, grabbing the video camera that lay on the coffee table in front. She hit record, just as Travis walked back in with a large red box. "Is it ready to decorate?"
"Yup." Travis nodded, opening the box to see their ornaments. Miley walked to the CD in the basket on the floor, after placing the girls in their seats. She placed it in the radio on the side table beside the tree, before Hey Santa played, by Wendy and Carnie Wilson.
"Here, babe. You can put the first ornament on the tree." Travis said, handing her a Precious Moment couple, with two baby girls and a personalization at the bottom. She slid it onto one of the middle branches, smiling at the placement. "Our first Christmas as a family."
"Look girls. Here's your first Christmas ornament!" Travis lifted slid the ornament on another middle branch.
"Look how pretty!" Miley pointed to the finished tree, bending down to the babies' seats. "Let's go make a gingerbread house!"
"This is going to be messy." Travis laughed, grabbing the video camera, before following Miley into the kitchen. She slipped Izzie and Meredith into their booster seat, pulling out the gingerbread house out of the closet. Travis pulled out two knives, and slid them in the middle of the table, while Miley pulled the house pieces, and candies out of the box. "Travis, you wanna make the icing?"
"Just for you baby." Travis's sarcasm caused a grin on his and Miley's face. Miley continued to read the instructions, as Travis made the icing. Soon they both finished, and both grabbed began to ice a piece. They assembled the first four pieces to the base, before beginning the roof. They connected the roof to the other pieces, but soon had to pull out soup cans, to prevent the roof from sliding down. "Okay, let's decorate!"
Miley opened the candies, placing them in a bowl. They began icing the roof, while the twins at the 'puffs' in front of them. They finished the roof, and began to decorate. "Next year you two will be able to participate."
Miley continued to put the candies on the white roof. "Just make sure they don't touch anything. This is making me nervous."
"I'm making sure." Travis laughed at her paranoia, putting more 'puffs' in front of his daughters. The roof was soon finished, and in ten minutes, so was the front and back of the house. "You did such a beautiful job."
"And I didn't make a mess!"
"I have never loved anything or anyone as much as I love you three."