BRRR!

As my background says (sorry its kind of cut off) "baby its cold outside" And that it is! air temp is about -25 wind chill -45! Are you kindling me. If this is global warming I'm ready for then next ice age! I didn't think it got this cold except in Alaska. I am seriously thinking its time to move! Hawaii sounds good about right now. The kids have not had school for the last couple of days due to 7inches of snow yesterday and the bitter cold today. I am glad they canceled today Corey started screaming yesterday about 4 o'clock and pulling at his ear. He was in so much pain he was standing and about to fall over and pass out I think.Lack of balance due to the ear. So by 5 he was off to the doctor with dad. The kids and I delivered papers in the car so as to say warm and he had median by 6:30! I love modern median! Last year I was cursing it cause they could not find out what was wrong with Ben and wanted to run all kinds of unnecessary test! But when you have a child in pain its the worst feeling in the world!

Can we build it! Yes we can

Corey loves bob the builder right now. As did all my boys at his age Jared is just at the age were he still kind of likes him but wants to be just like his big brother so not to much any more. So when I saw the bob the builder show would be coming to town I told Ben we should go. Brandon said he did not want to go it was to babyish! So Ben said he would take Corey and Jared. So we ordered tickets and even though its on a Sunday they will be going to the last show so we can still make it to church and hopefully get a nap in.

New Year New Job!

Well we decided as a family we would get a paper rout and pay off some fun medical bills thanks to Ben's Lyme disease and other stuff. We have been doing it for about a week now and its kind of fun. It helps us get up and make it church on time now that we are early again. Also I think its a great opportunity to teach the kids about saving money and tithing sense they will be getting some of the profits every month.

Ice Storm

Last Saturday we got freezing rain and man was it slick outside I went out to get the garbage can from the road and took Jared and Corey with me to get them out of the house and we didn't even make it the end of the drive way every time we took a step we were falling! We did make it to the snow and played for a few minutes then went inside. That night we had no hot water. Sunday morning we discover that we had no heat as well so we called the power company and they said they would be out sometime. So I stayed home and waited for him with Corey. He finally got to our house a little after 4 and said the regulator outside was frozen so he put a drip shield on so it doesn't happen again and We were able to warm up and take hot showers again!

Christmas was kind of quite around here this year. Ben's sister and her husband were going to come she got into a car accident the week before so they couldn't come. We had grandma and grandpa over Christmas Eve and read the Christmas story then went and looked at light around town. The kids got up around 5am and we were opening presents around 6. Corey was kind of sick but got into the unwrapping and had fun. We spent the day playing with our new toys and games we got.

1 extra day of winter break!

We got a huge snow storm right before Christmas and the kids got the day off of school. They were kind of upset about missing their christmas party's at school but they had fun outside helping clear off all the snow from the drive way. after we came in to warm up with hot cocoa