Snow!!

Jack watching from the house as Joe plows outside.

We got a bit of snow in the past 24 hours. I measured this morning and we have gotten 28 inches so far and it is still snowing. We went to Sarah's concert last night and got home about 7:30. I measured the snow on the car and it snowed 16 inches since we parked it when we got home last night.

Joe is out plowing snow this morning, he has been out there for a few hours and still is not done yet.

One of my favorite things at Christmas

Several years ago Vicky made this Precious Moments Nativity scene in ceramics. She gave it to me because I love Precious Moments figures. They just are so sweet and innocent looking. This Nativity scene is probably my favorite thing to put out when we decorate for Christmas. I like to wait until the house is quiet. So today while the kids were at school and Joe is at work, I decided it was time to put it out. I love looking at each piece as I put it out, it is just special to me and even more special because Vicky made it.

Every Christmas I would dress up Dog in a Santa Hat or her Christmas bandanna. She would give me this look like "please don't make me wear that again this year" but would tolerate it. She was just such a good dog. So as we unpacked all the Christmas stuff we came across her bandanna and stocking, man we miss her so much! It is hard to believe that she has been gone for 10 months now and that the hurt that we feel is still so fresh some days!

Now here is Jack, he probably can't wait to see what Christmas is all about. So far he is leaving the decorations and tree alone. I am not too sure that we will even put the presents under the tree at all. Jack seems to think that when we leave him home alone that he should taste, shred, and destroy anything that even looks like it might be paper! We have lost a few good books, some semi- important papers, etc to his desire to destroy paper. Hopefully someday soon Jack will outgrow his love of paper.

Joe and Sarah watching TV together. Sarah is definately her Daddy's girl!!

Pulled a short load on a Sat. and Kyle got to go with me:) He had his little lunch box and everything. As Dad it's nice to be able to have your kids interested in what you do. It was a fun day for both of us.

For those that don't know last spring we lost a member of our familly. It's still hard to believe and she is still missed a lot.

We Love you Dog and miss you :)

House Boat anyone?

Here's some pict's of the new Job.

This is what it starts out as. A big pile of stumps, logs, and various other nast things.

After a short trip through this machine.

It becomes my problem....

After a couple hour drive to the mill it's back for another load.

I'll post some picts of the dumping process later.

Why Will It Not Just GO AWAY!

I'm still trying to catch up on some of the happening's. So for those of you that don't already know the Zuk had a little growth spert. So a word of warning for those of you that like driving around those small car's. Be careful what you feed your car or you could be in for a surprise some morning.

After a good many years of avoiding the whole texting thing, I am hooked. Heidi and I got these cool new phones that have the qwerty keyboard. It opens both directions has camera and video for quick and entertaining messages. All in all a cool phone and fun to use.

Spring time in the North West

I woke up at 4:30 to a snowy morning for the second day in a row. Only today it never stopped. The pic of the snowy trees was at around 10 or so wih a couple inches already on the ground. The snowman was captured at around 1:30, at least some one is enjoying our spring weather.

This was also about the time Heidi threatened me with the idea of possibly having to shovel or plow if it kept snowing.