Ed's Family Visit

Ed, Jeanne, Cassey and Zach came up for a weekend and here's some of the video we shot from their time with us:

Max's Day in the Snow

Dad was asking to see footage of Max in the snow. I was at least able to upload some of the video we took on my flip video. You'll have to listen closely for Max's scream and then be warned that you'll hear me and Gina yelling at Dee because Max's legs were bending under him as he scooted in the snow.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Because I knew that Jessica and the kids were coming over again today, I went to the store on Saturday and bought some things to do a little project with all the kids. In celebration of Valentine's Day coming up on Thursday, I thought it would be fun to make chocolate covered strawberries. They did a really good job with it and we all had a lot of fun. Here's video coverage of the event...

Winter 2008 Storm

This is for our non-Utah family and friends. Just thought you might want to see what we have been hit with this last month. Yesterday (Saturday, February 2nd) was a beautiful sunny day - very appropriate for President Hinckley's funeral services. When we woke up this morning, we were hit with another storm - about 8" of snow. We have been hit with one after another this past week. We had to shovel out around our cars so that we could leave our driveway to get to church today.

When we came home from church today, I grabbed my camera to take some pictures. I had Max and Dee get in the pictures so that you could get an idea of how high some of the snow piles are. The picture where you just see Dee's and Max's head - they are standing on the sidewalk in front of the house. That is how high the snow pile is on the street. The pile on the grass behind them is about just as high - you can see that in the pictures where Max is standing on the sidewalk between the two piles.

And our mail carrier probably just loves delivering mail to our house. Our neighbors on our street have similar piles of snow in front of their houses. Thanks to Dee with his almost daily shoveling and Brother North with his ATV Snow Plow, we haven't been trapped in our house.

For our friends and family that love skiing and snowboarding, the ski resorts are loving this. For Mom and Dad who are living in 80 - 90 degree weather, this must look a little refreshing.

We even got about another inch later this evening and we are supposed to get another storm or possibly storms this week. We will be happy when it slows down and starts to melt.

New Year's Eve - Max

This is late in posting, but I just downloaded the pictures. Bryan, Jessica, Jaxson and Sydney came over to the house to celebrate the new year. However, come about 10:00 pm it was way past Jaxson and Sydney's bed time and Sydney was crying to go home. So they went home before we could "cheer" in the new year. Now Max, our Mr. Night Owl, was in a party mood. He stayed up with us until midnight. The attached pictures show Max "tooting" and "blowing" in the New Year 2008. He kind of looks like Baby New Year with the big hat. He played with that hat for days until the plastic cracked and broke and it was too "dangerous" for him to keep wearing.