(A/N: sorry for the delay, combination of school and severe writer's block, thanks for the patience.)

After arriving at the cabin the women noticed that they had to go to the grocery store, so Angela, Alex, Sydney, Erica, and Jennifer headed to the small town a few miles away.

As they were walking out they noticed a few snowflakes coming down as they left the store.

"Oh look it's trying to snow." Alex said

"Yeah, I know of two little girls who will want to play in it if any of the snow stays." Syd commented as they loaded the rest of the groceries in the car.

The snow did stay, as the day wore on the snow came down harder and harder to where soon it became impossible to see three feet off the front porch.

Christmas Eve

After supper everyone gathered in the living room, Walker soon found himself with Elizabeth on his lap while Angela and Melissa played a duet on their harps as everyone sang Christmas carols.

"Papua what's Christmas?" Elizabeth asked in her two year old innocence only to have her question echoed by one year old Jasmine as she cuddled up on Trivette's lap as she looked up at Trivette with her big brown eyes shining.

"Christmas is a time when people celebrate the birth of Jesus." Walker answered as he opened the bible that sat on the table next to him and began to read.

"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 'Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!' "

After Walker finished reading, the wind was blowing so hard that the sound could no longer be ignored.

"Sounds like a real blizzard outside." Alex said as she came into the living room with a pot of hot chocolate.

"Hey Angela, remember last time we was in a blizzard?" Michael asked as he laughed at the memory.

"You bet I do. Do you remember Simon?"

"How could I forget?"

"What are you guys talking about?" Jennifer asked as she wondered what everyone was talking about.

"Go ahead and tell the story Angela," Michael urged.

"Ok. When Michael, Simon, and I was younger, there was a blizzard in Dallas, well school began to try to get all the kids home but we couldn't get through to our parents on the phone. So not wanting to remain at school we decided to walk to the hope center. Because of the chaos we were able to slip out the door completely undetected and we started walking, and in about ten minutes we were completely lost. We walked for what felt like forever till we came upon a drift of snow, so we dug a cave in it and stayed in there until someone finally found us."

"You kids were lucky too, a lot of people found that had been outside not even half the time you guys were didn't make it. And they were adults not six, seven, or eight years old." Trivette said as he remembered all the people killed by the storm.

"You didn't say why we wanted out of school." Simon said as he started laughing harder.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot that part. So why don't you tell it Simon."

"Alright, there was a kid in the sixth grade by the name of Greg Johnson, He was actually thirteen and about the dumbest, meanest kid at Western Dallas Elementary school. Well anyway, we decided it was time for a little pay back…"

Flashback- Western Dallas Elementary School

"It will not." Six year old Simon argued as they were trying to get the attention of Greg Johnson, the school bully.

"It will too, Simon." eight year old Angela said as she argued back.

"Yeah it will stick, Simon" seven year old Michael argued.

"Hey what are you ranger dorks doing?" Greg asked as he walked over it was his greatest joy to see Simon, Michael and Angela arguing with each other.

"Simon says that if you put your tongue on cold metal it won't stick." Michael explained.

"It won't stick." Greg said.

"Why don't you try it?" Angela said

"No Way." Greg said as he began to walk away

"You're chicken."

"What did you say?"

"You're chicken." Angela said again as Simon began flapping his arms and making chicken noises.

"I'll show you ranger dorks once and for all that I'm no chicken." Greg said as he walked over to the basketball goal and licked it, but right when his tongue touched it, it was instantly fused onto the pole. After trying to remove his tongue Greg found out that it wouldn't come of the pole.

After slapping high fives to each other, Simon, Michael, and Angela ran off before a teacher would figure out that they were responsible for Greg's tongue stuck to the pole...

"And we left school early so Greg couldn't beat us up." Simon said as he finished the story.

TBC