I LOVE SNOW

After having a little bit of a depressing week, something finally pulled me out! SNOW!!! I think God gave us the snow to be a little sunshine during the somewhat gloomy winter. I love the snow. I have missed it so much since we moved here to Kennewick. Last night when I stepped outside and saw the snow I just wanted to lay out in the lawn and let the snowflakes drop on my face.

Today as I was taking Tayler up to preschool a snowflake dropped on my nose. I was so exciteand had Bailey look at it. Her grin became as big as mine. I don't know why something so simple puts such a smile on my face, but it does. Maybe it makes me feel like a kid again. Who knows.

When I picked Tayler up, we decided to build a snowman in the backyard. Berek and Makenna woke up early and took over the front with their snowman and didn't even invite me or Tayler so we decided to up one on them by building ours in the backyard with my special snowman kit. She had so much fun and I enjoyed spending the time with just me and her (Bailey is upstairs snoozing). Tayler is now drinking hot apple cider and warming up with her blanket. Here are our pictures of our most awesome snow"lady".

Thanksgiving

On Wednesday afternoon we packed up our Yukon and headed off to Idaho for Thanksgiving. We stayed over night in Boise, our kids are not real good lasting 9 hours straight in the car even when they have movies t0 watch. That night Jared and I got no sleep at all. You see, by the time we were there, Bailey was all ready to play so she didn't get to sleep till late, then when there was finally a chance for sleep our sweet Berek snored all night!


Thanksgiving morning we got up at 6:30 (5:30 our time), I ran, then we all got ready, ate breakfast and continued on our journey. We reached Jared's parents about 12:15. A few hours later we ate. It was real yummy of course. Then it was time to search the sale ads. What a disappointment this year. No real good sales. Nothing I absolutely needed. It was depressing.


Later that evening we met with my family at my sisters house. It was time for pies. she bakes like crazy. Her plan was to make a pie for everyone-each of our favorites. I told her to make anything she wanted for us, we'd eat anything and I really didn't want a pie all to myself====I didn't need it or the guilt.


That night we stayed at my sis house. The plan was that everyone would meet us there and then we would leave at 4:00 am. RIGHT!!!! I stayed up all night and they all dogged me. Can you believe it. Even though there was nothing I wanted, it is tradition and I don't break tradition (GUILT TO ALL OF YOU) So here I am, wide awake, and nothing to do. Oh and I forgot to add that Tayler and Bailey both were coughing all night--yep they were getting a nasty cold.


We'll my nephew redeemed himself by taking us to Lake Channel to ride motorcycles and 4 wheelers. There is no lake there, just sand, hills, rocks, and dirt. Way fun though. We got lots of good pics.


Saturday was not as fun. Bailey started to get real sick and by 3:00 we were in the Emergency room. She had a high fever and was not breathing well. Finally after 3 hours they gave her a strong steroid and put her in a room on the pediatric floor for monitoring. Finally 6 hours after that, she was breathing much better so they let us go home.


Finally on Sunday we left for our long 9 hour trip home--and it was long. I now remember why we don't go many places that take more than 3 hours to get there. Were glad to be home and finally today I can say Bailey is doing much better. I'm not sure if I would repeat this Thanksgiving but we did enjoy seeing everyone and hanging out with them. Thank you everyone that helped out!!! We love you and miss you.


Here are some pictures of the highlight of our trip.

BEREK'S FIRST TIME DRIVING A 4 WHEELER

JARED ON MICHAEL'S BIKE

MY NEPHEW MICHAEL

Halloween Post Finally

NIGHT TIME PICS

Wow, finally I can put up my Halloween pictures. Our computer has been in the shop since Halloween and we just got it back this afternoon. It still is not working write so who knows, I may be out another two weeks.

I loved Halloween this year. At the last minute, around noon, I decided to decorate the house. I don't know why, well kinda. The kids begged for us to get a fog machine and Jared said go ahead. I was at Wal-Mart picking one up and decided you can't just have a fog machine, that's corny. If I get a fog machine, I need spiderwebs. And not just any spiderwebs, the glow in the dark ones that need black light! Then there is the strobe lights. If there is fog and spiderwebs, there must be strobe lights. Then if you do that, you need bats and zombies. So off on a Halloween binge I went and by the time the kids got home from school, it was complete. Jared was pretty surprised too. I LOVED IT.

We took the kids and their friends to the ward Trunk or Treat and then came home and went around our neighborhood with some more friends. The kids got a few full size candy bars and one house was even giving hot chocolate to the parents. Our neighborhood is definitely a fun one to come to at Halloween. Most of the houses decorate and do it well, plus they give out the good stuff :) We had so many kids come this year. I bought 14 bags of candy and we still ran out. CRAZY. It was so fun though. Bailey even understood what was up and protected her bag from the older ones.

It was definitely a fun Halloween. We did forget to make homemade root beer this year and we do miss seeing all the family and cousins dressed up, but other than that.....it was GREAT!