More snow fun!

Here are some more pictures of the fun we were able to have in the snow. We had a blast sledding with our neighbors at the school...

and building a snowman...

We also had fun sledding and playing in the snow at Granddaddy and Grandmama's house. We made a great sledding hill to go on our old red sled down through the trees towards the river and a second hill for the disks. Uncle Caleb and Aunt Christiana also enjoyed the time with the boys. I am so glad we were able to make memories with this snow fall because I know Stephen will have them forever!

We also made snow angels, snow chairs, and had a girls on boys snowball fight between me, Stephen, Christiana and Uncle Caleb. We sure enjoy the snow. Now just to get the boys skiing... ;)

Snow, Snow EVERYWHERE!

We have had the most snow I have seen since leaving Utah's great winters! Even though it is not our first snow of the year, it will be the most remembered for sure. It started last night and is continuing to snow as I am writing this! We have around 24 inches right now and it is amazing! The dogs don't know what to think about all this white stuff. Roxy knows its cold so she tries to stay inside. Boots on the other hand is so funny. He will go out and bound around and play in the snow but is such a baby when it came time to go back inside... He wouldn't come down the stairs so I had to go out in my socks and pull him in! The snow was so deep that it went up to my knees! We had a great time this morning helping Daddy shovel part of the driveway...

Then Stephen and I went and enjoyed the snow with our neighbors. Snowball fights, sledding, and building forts were some of our afternoon activities... Sorry that there are no pics of that but it was snowy and I didn't want to ruin my camera...

Now we are back inside trying to warm up with cookies and hot chocolate watching the continued snowfall. It is just amazing to think that we are really snowed in! We don't have a big vehicle anymore to get around in this kind of weather... Don't tell Peter or I will be trying to keep him from wanting another car! Enjoy these winter wonderland pics!

PS-Steph and Jarrod~ we hope you are enjoying your time in Sipan in the warm and sunny weather! Happy Anniversary!

Happy Birthday, Stephen!!

Sleepless in Seattle

We had a blast last week in Seattle. It was a whirl wind of events but it was fantastic! We saw old friends, did the tourist things and hung out with family. Stephen celebrated his 4th birthday, Scott grew up, and we survived the hours in the airplane! It was great. Now we are ready to take on the vacation to Hawaii...(hint, hint, Honey!) We started out at 3:15 in the morning heading with tired kids to the airport. Thanks Granddad for dropping us off and picking us up at strange hours of the night! They slept most of the plane rides with our stops in Chicago. Peter and Stephen flew United and Scott and I flew Southwest. When we got to Seattle, we spent the day with Peter's Dad and sister.

On Saturday, we headed up to Sequim and Port Angeles to visit friends from Texas and life long friends of Peter's. First we took a ferry across the water to shorten our drive. We had lunch with Alice and Duane Harper and visited their new home. Then we headed on to our friends from San Antonio who recently moved up to Washington. Dave and Mariam have a lovely home and we just seemed to take up where we left off 3 years ago. God is great in that we can have great friends, not see them and then start where we left off. We look forward to their visit to our place...

Sunday Peter's Dad took us to a train expo. It was fun for the kids and Stephen now has even more interest in trains. Scott loved to watch the trains too and I have to say that I was amazed at the amount of time and effort people put into these scenes. Now we might just have a train track circling the top of the wall in the basement.... (we'll see...)

Monday we decided to go to the Woodland Park Zoo. When we got there we decided to buy the CityPass and go to as many things as we could. The zoo was great. We got to see elk and a few other species of animals that the National Zoo doesn't have like giraffes. Stephen's favorite was the zebra and Scott liked the elephants the best until we got back to the front and there was a peacock strutting around and Scott could get really close to it.

We also went and saw the Fremont Troll while we were in Seattle.

Tuesday we went to the Seattle Aquarium which was neat. It was different than I thought it would be. The boys watched a talk with divers because they were intregued that Daddy does that. The aquarium is home to many northwestern fish so we were able to see the sea life of the area. They also have an otter breading area and the little guys were fun to watch. The biggest section though was given to the salmon. They have a breeding thing for them too and it was neat to see. After the aquarium we went on a harbor cruise. Stephen thought going on the boat was cool and I thought the views of the city were fantastic. In between the cruise and aquarium, we went to Pike Place Market for lunch. They were still able to throw fish even though PITA filed a lawsuit against them for "disgracing the dead fish." I sure am glad that they lost that battle.

Wednesday was Stephen's 4th birthday. We went to the Music and Science Fiction Museum, Space Needle, Pacific Science Center and I MAX, and Rainforest Cafe' for dinner. It was a great day. Stephen loved the science center- there they were able to touch and play with everything. Stephen found a sound room were he could bang on different size metal bowls and loved the racket! He also enjoyed the dinosaurs and the cartoon drawing area. We saw elephants in the IMAX and it was really neat. He also loved going up in the Space Needle so much that he wanted to go back again.

Thursday, also known as Thanksgiving Day, we went and spent the day at Peter's Dad's house with him and his sister and her two boys. The kids all got along well for the most part. Stephen loved being with his cousins and hopefully we will be able to see them a little more often. I was glad that the kids were able to meet some of Daddy's family.

Now that you've read all we did, you can understand why I needed a break before writing this. We needed catch up time and sleep!! Back to normal schedules this week has helped but we will still have more to come. Tis the season!!

Off to Seattle

We are heading for our first family vacation, not visitation, in 7 years and I am so excited! We are traveling to Seattle, Washington for 7 days. We will be spending time with friends and family, seeing sights and walking the boys through places Peter grew up in. We hope that you have a great Thanksgiving and can't wait to hear all about it! Be looking for a post about our trip!

Last one!!

Ater all the fun my boys were quite tired.

Hope you aren't tired of seeing fun in action... Here is one more video and then you can decide if it would be fun to come to next year... All are invited!

Another Square Dance video!

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Halloween Square Dance

This year, our church, Emmaus, held a square dance and hog roast on Halloween as an alternative to trick-or-treating.

We had an amazing time despite Peter being away from us. It was full of food, fun and dancing! Stephen really got into it and had a blast too!

Scott lasted almost the whole night and for that I was thankful! Stephen won best costume for a boy and I won the best costume for a Lady!!

It was a great night. I hope you enjoy a glimpse into what we did and I look forward to next year's dance! Hopefully I will have my date with me!

Here are some more catch up pics!!

Both boys are taking after their Daddy... They are inthralled with the motorcycle.. Guys don't get any ideas though, Mom says not until your 18 can you decide to have one...
Sweet cute moments with Scott... How can't you love this face! Spegetti is one of his favorite meals.
While Peter has been traveling lately, we were able to go and spend the day with Grammy and Granddad. They took us to this great park in Ashburn and we had a lot of fun. Scott slept for most of the time which gave Stephen and Gram and Granddad some good time to play. I sure enjoy our time together and cherish each moment that we have. I am so glad that they are so close and we can visit more often. It makes my heart glad that these people who are so special to me are becoming so special to my kids and making great memories with them too!
We went for some fall fun to Great Country Farms, which is becoming a tradition for our family in the fall. The boys had a great time with their friends jumping on the big pillow, go carts, mazes, watching the pig races and seeing the T-Rex eat pumpkins. We also went on a hay ride to a pick your own pumpkin patch which made for some great pictures! We look forward to going back and having another great day!!


We went to Blandy which is an aborium with a home school group and had a great time learning about animals and different things in nature!
Stephen has such a servent's heart... he was making me a PB & J on his own so I could have some lunch since I was putting Scott down for his nap.

Even in Halloween you can find Christ and ways to share Him with the world...