Konley enjoying the snow...........yesterday. See all that on our rails? We got that much again today? What is going on in this place?

Jack loves it! For a while anyways. Then his tiny little body is too tired to fight the cold anymore.

So, last night at 8:30 we were watching tv and Jeff jumps up and says that he should be out building a snowman with the boys. So I pushed and prodded and they all loaded up and went outside. I found some things to make the face but by the time I got outside they had decided that the snow wasn't wet enough and they were just making snow angels. :o) So, I grabbed the video camera and laughed as the older boys pelted dad with snowballs.

Since the snowman idea didn't quite make it we packed up the sleds and took them over to the small hill around the corner. We were the only ones crazy enough to be outside and it was a blast! We sledded down the hill and laughed for an hour.

We finally packed them up, put their clothes in the dryer, put jammies on and got them into bed. A great ending to a wonderful day.

Today was a bit colder and daddy is off saving people from a world of no power and no lights. Don't know when he'll be home, but he has to get off by tomorrow at midnight. Then you know he'll be back at it on Sunday with the wind that their calling for. Such is the life of a lineman family.

love

chell

So this is our house at twilight with all of the snow/ice and all of the lights. I guess you can really only see the tree in the window. Maybe I will try it when it's truly dark next time.

We did get our trees decorated before the disaster hit. We have one in the living room and one downstairs in the family room. We ran out of room with 5 of us to only have one tree. They don't make the fake ones as round as a real one and you just don't have enough branches. Besides, it's more fun that way!

Ok, so it would seem with Christmas right around the corner we would be hustling and bustling about trying to get things done, right! WRONG!?! I know that God will sometimes slow us down when we are too busy, but come one! The stomach flu?!? for all of us? We are literally on day 8. It started with Konley, moved to Jack, hit KEegan and I the same day and brought Jeff home early from work today. This was not the way I wanted to lose 6 pounds. Literally in 36 hours. Ai-yi-yi!
So, we're getting healthy...............and it snows.........and it freezes. What is wrong around here? It is not even supposed to hit 30 til after CHristmas. How is the snow supposed to go away in a state that only knows snow up in the mountains?
Well, enough whining. Got it out of my system. I went out tonight and took pix of the house all done up in lights and snow. Froze my "toukas" off but it worked out for the best. The boys both have late start tomorrow, so we get to "sleep in" and then maybe I will venture out before the snow starts again on Wednesday.
What a crazy start to winter. Maybe we could even have a white Christmas! One can only hope. If I don't get to you before next week have a Merry Christmas, enjoy your family and love those that are around you.
love
chell

So we originally thought that we would head to Yuen Lui the day after THanksgiving to have the cousins' pictures taken. WHAT WERE WE THINKING? We tried that once before and I think I was crying just as much as Jack. At the time we waited over 2 hours and by that time everyone was hungry and at least one child had to pee! We thought we would try something new this year. So we took the cousins out back of grandma's house and we took them ourselves. If they are happy and smiling what does it matter who took them? So we have the 6 of them: Brandon, Mariah, Madison, Konley, Keegan and Jack. It was a good way to start the day.

Thanksgiving is at the moms' house. We don't have room for the 19 people around the table and I wasn't trading Christmas morning for Thanksgiving. (Duh!?!) Drew and Heather and the kids were able to come up that morning and stay until Saturday. After shopping friday morning we took everyone to the bowling alley and had a blast! Wii bowling is definitely easier, for me anyways. We went to mexican for lunch and then home for a nap! I don't really do 4 in the morning, but I make the exception the morning after Thanksgiving. Drew and Heather, the kids and Gram Vicky came over for dinner (hot turkey sandwiches in the sandwich maker) and a movie. Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Good flick.

Jeff and I spent Saturday night at a wedding for a family friend. Thanks to Gram Vicky we were able to spend the night and be lazy sunday morning.

Now we're back to normal. Back to school. Back to work. Back to whatever it is that Jack and I do all day!

Have a great week