After 10 more inches!

Like we said before "Why not, Minot?"

This is why...Overnight we received 10 additional inches of snow! It took all in all about 2.5 hours to clear our driveway. I definitely could have come up with some better things to do with that time. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment!
Check back for more pictures...we headed out to bowl!

Its Winter (Edited edition, without Josiah saying "Mommy" every 5 seconds!)

Well, as many of you know, we have gotten some serious amounts snow this winter. Its really hard to grasp how much snow, so here are a few picture from around town.
This is a view of our church. That snow is from the plow that cleared our parking lot. This is a common site around town.Even more amazing are the pictures of our home. I wanted to post this today because as I am writing we are under a "Winter Storm Warning," which means we will have the following in the next 12 hours; 6 or more inches of snow and 3 or more inches of ice with high winds and blowing snow. I don't know about you but that just sounds awesome! Before this storm hits I wanted to post some pre-storm pictures.As you will see from the next picture we have not had the time to DIG out our Christmas decorations since we have been home. However, I am not really sure we are going to be able to rescue these until spring!I would take some pictures of the back yard but currently its a knee deep walk back there. So those will have to wait until we go back there to dig our patio furniture out.

Its Winter

Well as many of you know, we have gotten some serious snow here this winter. How it really hard to grasp how much snow. So here are a few picture from around town.
This is a view of our church. That snow is from the plow that cleared our parking lot. This is a common site around town.Even more amazing are the picture of our home. I wanted to post this today because as I am writing we are under a "Winter Storm Warning," which means we will have the following in the next 12 hours 6 or more inches of snow and 3 or more inches of ice with high winds and blowing snow. I don't know about you but that just sounds awesome! Before this storm hits I wanted to post some pre-storm pictures.As you will see from the next picture we have not had the time to DIG out our Christmas decorations since we have been home. However I am not really sure we are going to be able to rescue these until spring!I would take some pictures of the back yard but currently its a knee deep walk back there. So those will have to wait until we go back there to dig our patio furniture out.

I always forget...

It seems like every year we forget to take a picture in front of the Christmas tree in our pjs. So as we were leaving Florida I realized that once again we had forgotten. However now I am declaring it a tradition for us to always "FAKE" our Christmas morning picture. How did we do this year?

Our first homemade Christmas present

So this year Mom came to visit when I had Makayla Grace and we had some ideas about crafts with Josiah. Well while she was here we tried to make the reindeer magnets (see below). However we definitely underestimated a project this INTENSE with a 3 yr old.

We then decided to do some of the REALLY difficult stuff ourselves. I was pretty sure that when Mom left, I was never going to finish these nor would I dream of having Josiah help me. However the day before we were leaving for Florida I had a lapse in my judgment and decided to venture out to finish these with Josiah's help.

So we begin and to my surprise he did an AWESOME job! Believe it or not we had a great time making these. The snowflakes he did on his own. He dotted them with some glitter paint and then glued these little white snowballs to each. On the Santa clips he glued the hats and drew the eyes (which look like dashes). Then for the reindeer he glued the clip to the wreath and the eyes and nose on.

All in all it was a lot of fun! Maybe next year he will be able to do more on his own. Guess you have to check back then!

Our Little Snow(wo-)man

So our wonderful family friend got this adorable outfit for Makayla Grace as a joke. However I had to put her in it...Now for all the world to see

Stay Tuned

This is a challenge to myself! So if I post it hopefully you all will help me follow through with it.

I will make some new posts to include:

Our wonderful trip home for Christmas (which only took us a year to get back).
Updated pictures of my kiddos.
Finally some much needed pictures of the "Snowball" (according to our friend Megan) that we call home.

So please stay tuned!