Walls, walls, walls!

I stopped by my house today and they finished the drywall, which means.... I have walls!!! They obviously aren't done but they are beautiful! I can't wait to see what they do next.

My First Snowman!

The Monday night/Tuesday morning before Christmas we had 5+ inches of snow, when we woke up Kyle said "let's build a snowman," I had never built one before so I was game to do it. We didn't start it until later in the evening so the temperature was going down...it made it a little difficult to pack the snow but it was still fun building it.

I was an awesome snowball roller---who would have thunk it? Kyle tried but his kept on falling apart so I got assigned the job to make roll the balls and then Kyle would use a knife to kind of smooth off the edges.

Rolling, rolling...





We wanted to make it a lot bigger but I was rolling one of them on the grass to the side of the deck and it was already 20+ lbs, we were afraid that it was going to get too heavy for us to carry and that it would crumble so we stopped. It came off a little crooked but I'm pretty proud of my very first snowman.

People questioned how this could be my first snowman...I blamed it on growing up on the Oregon coast I believe that we only had snowfall two or three times growing up and yes I have spent a winter in Provo before this but at that time I tried avoiding the snow and the cold that came with it at all cost. I'm still not a huge fan of the cold but I figured I've got to try it at least once.

In Memory of Suzy

Here Lies Suzy Snow
Loving Friend
December 21, 2010, 5:15pm-December 21,2010, 7:00pm
Suzy was a good Snow-Woman...for the hour and a half that she lasted.





We will miss Suzy and the wonderful memories that we shared. We are glad that we were able to know her for the short time that we did. We know that she has melted/fallen onto a better place and that we will probably never see her again.
I remember her rosy stomach as the ketchup melted off of her cheeks and fell down and the way that her nose bent just right, she stood tall and proud and wasn't afraid to smile.
Farewell to you Suzy!

Going Fishing

Saturday we were using these little fish guys to build with, when it was time for the five year olds to clean up they decided to bury me with them, Rain decided that it would be funny to shove some down my shirt (don't worry I was wearing two shirts). I told them to stop putting them down my shirt so some of the others rushed to get them all out, they patted me down and I thought for sure that we had got them all out. But Saturday night when I was getting undressed I heard clank, clank, clank, clank and I looked down to see 4 plastic fishes on the ground, I started to laugh.
Oh the adventures you have when working with preschoolers :D