Snow, Glorious Snow

I promised some pictures of the kids playing in the snow last time... and yes its taken me forever... but finally here they are! And now of course we have about twice as much snow... these were taken a few weeks ago before the temps plummeted to the -20 to -36 range... yes -36 is our low so far for this year. At least the schools were closed that day. I think they close when it gets below -24.

Other than being cold, we've been pretty busy lately with the semester starting back up at the community college. Mike is teaching an Environmental Science course as well as doing his research, which will take him back up to the forest in a week or so. And I am teaching two classes this semester, one an English Comp class and the other one is Intro to Higher Ed, which is study skills and such.

We hope everyone else is doing well! And staying warm!! :)

Maria showing Beatrice snow :)

Getting tired and wondering what to do next

Of course Duncan was all over the place having a ball!

Maria showing Beatrice how to make Snow Angels

Attempting to walk around

Remind anyone of "A Christmas Story"?

Learning the fine art of eating snow.

Just about done

Yep, totally done

Rice Lake Makes Headlines

Too funny. On Monday's Jay Leno show one of his "headlines" was from Rice Lake (about 40 miles from us - we go there for shopping once in a while) about a dog on the freeway that kept outrunning the police. They featured the story on the local news here on Wednesday, and you can read it here.

Other than that, things have been pretty calm and relaxing around here. Maria has been completely obsessed with reading the Twilight series of books. I hate to admit it, but she's got me interested in the series too. While the writing is a tad on the substandard side, the story is pretty engaging... if you like vampires that is ;)

One of these days I will get around to uploading more pictures... its just such a slow going process. I have some really cute ones of the kids playing in the snow, I will try to get them up within a few days here :)

Until then, I hope everyone is doing well and that you all have recovered from the holidays! :)

Happy New Year!

Me and Maria actually made it up till midnight :) and we celebrated with some bubbly juice and butterscotch sugar cookies ;)

Mike actually beat me to a New Year's post, or an End of Year Blog and he summed everything up beautifully. I just can't top it ;)

I hope everyone had an exciting New Year's Eve and here's to 2009! Happy New Year!