winter wonderland 2010

All I had was a mini-ruler..so it was only 6 in. long.....the snow is almost up to the top!




I love night snow pics!


This is the first time we have had enough clean snow to have snow cream!
Yummy....
first day of successfully blowing bubbles (1/29/10) He got really good at it by the end of the day!



looking cool in the snow


mowin' snow









Playing with our neighbors
snow angels anyone??









very deep

this is where everyone ended up sledding. It didn't take long for people to figure out that this was the best spot! At one time I counted about 35 people out there.....








gathering around the neighbor's fire place

hiking back up the hill..this made my thighs burn!

hot chocolate maker...thanks aunt kim!


These are some sledding videos..some of them are dangerously fast!

Isabella Ashley Cadena 2002-2010

Our great friends, Ed and Emma, lost their sweet baby girl Thursday morning. Isabella was Jake's age and she was in his first grade class. Emma was Jake's teacher and now she is Riggs's teacher and was definitely one of their favorites. Jay and I have recently become really close with them. Emma has a great love for children and treats them like her own. Isabella was her only child. She tried to have her for 10 years and only got to keep her for seven.

This is probably the worst thing that our children, our school has ever had to endure. We all want to help Emma and just don't know how. Things will never be the same for her and it is so sad to see her empty chair at school. I already miss her voice, her polly pockets, her hot pink boots, her mother calling her "Bells." My kids are going to miss playing with her after school. My kids usually end up in Emma's room after school because she has the best toys; she lets them make big,huge messes with paint and paper and toys!...The thing I think I miss most of all is how Isabella made her mother laugh. Emma has a great laugh and I just don't know if I will hear it again. These last days have been so hard for them and the pain I see in her face is unbearable. All Jay and I can do is hug them and cry.


Please pray for our friends, Emma and Ed Cadena

This is Isabella at the play right before Christmas. (Jake is beside her but you can't see his face)

i ♥ faces

I ♥ Faces: "We are Family"

The photographer,who took our pics last summer, entered this into the I ♥ Faces contest. I loved it,except for the kid's clothes. I liked the clothes I chose for the other shots. These are not my style.... khakis and polos....I don't know what I was thinking!yuck! Oh well.....

Brooke said,
"This shot is one of my favorite family shots ever. I asked Mom and Dad to kiss, and this is the reaction the kids gave me. I smile every time I see it!"

(I hope we win!)

Check out more entries here:

snow day part 3- sledding

last day! we already miss it. don't know if we are ready for school tomorrow..oh well..


They got the "run and jump on" technique down pretty fast. Jake in the back with Riggs steering the front.











This was all you could see of me!

snow day part 2- the original "see-saw"

This is the most fun my kiddos have ever had on a see-saw. They laughed the whole time!