This Is Us

A couple days ago, on my way home from taking Brichette to school I got to see the moon in a very pretty setting. Here are a couple pictures: The sun was just rising... oh it was so pretty and it looked so big. Too bad my camera didn't really capture all that I saw.

After another one of the big storms that we've had this year we decided to take the kids sledding. Jake and Alex (Matt and Mieshka's boys) were with us, so they came too. Brichette and Jake would go down by themselves, but Xander, Alex, and Athena would ride down with one of us. Dieter would take Alex, and Nick took Xander and Athena. Sometimes Brichette would want to ride with Nick also. Colleen and I stayed at the top and helped hold the sleds that weren't being used, and take care of the little ones when they weren't going down. Once the kids were starting to get tired Dieter and Nick would pull them back up the hill on the sled. They went down a couple more times, but then Athena had, had enough of the cold and the wind and wanted to leave. So I took her and Xander back to the car and Nick helped bring the sleds and everything back. The kids (except for Jake) climbed in the car and was playing a little bit. So I got some really cute pictures of them waiting f...

A week ago we were going to get something to eat, and got outside and it was foggy. We could only see about 15 feet around us. We couldn't really even see the houses next door. The kids were very curious about it and wondered why it wasn't around the house. We told them that it was, but because we were so close to the house we couldn't see the fog. We climbed in the car and drove down the street a little bit and stopped, so that they could see that the fog was around the house. We got out to the main street and boy did we see some silly people... They were driving around with their brights on, thinking that helps them see better. But it doesn't... all that does is make it harder for them to see and blind the other drivers. We also saw people driving with their wipers on. How silly is that??? It's FOG, not RAIN. Your wipers aren't going to help. Some peoples children. LOL!!! Anyway... Here are a couple pictures of it. It's a little hard to see it, but I got i...

So we are pre-approved for the house. Nick called on it, and they sold it three weeks ago. They wouldn't even take his info in case it fell through. So when I picked up the flyer it was already sold. How dumb is that to still have flyers and the sign up, if it's sold, and they won't even take other people's info just in case. But we found another one. It has 300 more sq. ft. and it's $10,000 less. We just hope it's not like the other one and already sold. We'll keep you posted.

It was around the first part of December when it snowed for what seemed like two days straight. Dieter had gotten rid of his snow blower, and hadn't gotten another one yet. The snow was getting really deep, so Nick, Brichette, Xander, and Colleen went out to shovel the snow. It was still snowing, so what they had just shoveled was covered again with another 3 inches. The kids thought it was so much fun, but Nick and Colleen did not. The kids even threw themselves into the huge piles of snow and laughed so hard, because they were stuck. They also made snow angels. Eventually the snow stopped and so did they. It was a fun, exciting, snowy day! The End.