Finally an Update

I can't keep apologizing for my lack of attention to my blog, so I will just say, here is an update, finally. Christmas was great, we spent the morning at home in Prescott with Pam, Ryan's mother, then drove down to Mesa for the rest of the day and spent the night down there. We had some eventful days, my parents were getting ready to leave to the MTC and we had some moving and rearranging to do with Grandma D in the mean time. She wasn't feeling so well so, Chelsea volunteered to have her in her home while my parents were gone to the MTC for 10 days. She will reap great eternal blessings for what she had to put up with!


After that we came back home and got to spend some great quality time with Gramma Sweetheart, or Pam as some refer to her. She stayed for a whole 2 weeks. It was so much fun, the kids were very sad to see her go, as they always are. She helped me paint the waiting room at Ryan's office. Something that should have been done, oh about 10 years ago. It looks great. Thanks for the help, Pam, you are always a trooper! Ryan bought Brennan some tickets to a Cardinals game for Christmas.(not sure if it was really for Brennan) They had a blast. Brennan wore his new Vikings jersey that he also got for Christmas and they had a great time with our friends Chad and Ryan M.


January was pretty uneventful except we had 3 or 4 snow days. For those of you not familiar, as I wasn't, a "SNOW DAY" is something that happens when even a skiff of snow appears here. Someone decides to cancel school, close city offices, etc.... and thus we are left with time on our hands to entertain the children. So I will include a few pictures of what we did. We actually got about 8" in 2 or 3 days, it was awesome. Our cars were stuck in the garage, but we had a blast. The kids found a great sledding hill, our driveway! Our neighbor saw Brennan trying to slide down on the lid of a rubbermaid tote and brought over 2 sleds for us to use. It was so much fun. We all sled down several times, and that is all they wanted to do all day for 2 days. Ryan and I finally needed to get out of the driveway, so we spent 2 hours moving enough snow to get our cars out, barely, then we moved it all back onto the driveway. The neighbors must have thought we were absolutely nuts. At one point the neighbor across the street asked if we were trying to get the cars out or in? He was clearly confused by our actions.


It was really a fun family time for us, Ryan didn't even go into work on a Friday it was so bad. We loved having him home to play with for 2 whole days. He couldn't get his car out so he didn't have a choice! :)


Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!