Trying to catch up....

I can't believe that it's been so long since I've posted anything.  I swear the days are just flying by so fast, that it's hard to keep up with life, let alone posting something on the blog.  Over the next several days, I will try to catch up.  We've had two birthdays, band concerts, basketball and baseball games, cheerleading, track meets, another temple trip to DC and of course just hanging out with each other!

We only had FIVE snow days this year.  That is alot compared to Idaho, but last year we had about 17, so 5 doesn't seem like too many!  They also have 2 hour delays which we have come to LOVE!  They delay school two hours to give the snow plows time to get out and plow the roads.  We don't get nearly the snow here in Morgantown that we got in Idaho, but we do have the skinny, narrow roads and the hills.  You are either driving up a hill or down a hill.  There are not too many places that are flat!  We LOVED snow days this year because we live in a neighborhood.  All the neighborhood kids would get together at our house and go sledding down our hill.  They all get a long so well, and they had a lot of fun!  However....people DIE out here when we tell them that they don't cancel school in Idaho until it's 20 below!  They don't let our kids out for recess if it's 33 degrees!  Things are sure different back here, but we have loved the opportunities and friends we have made in the last two years.  We sure do miss our family and friends though....it's been too long since we've seen you!

All the kids making a train on the sleds!  Of course, our snow has been long gone, but this was some fun times in February!  Tylee is at the bottom in the blue coat.  She wasn't too excited about waiting for everyone...imagine that!

At the bottom of hill!  We live at the end of a road that is a dead end, so there is very little traffic.  The road in front of our house is actually flat, so the kids can ride bikes, play ball and of course.....go sledding!  If they get enough speed, they go down our hill, across the road and into the neighbor's yard.  We usually ended the day with hot chocolate and video games for all! 

This is TJ skiing down our hill.  He finally made it to the bottom, where it's flat.  It's crazy to me that you can actually ski in your back yard here!  However, he didn't like climbing back up the hill with his skiis!  He was really missing the ski lift!