Blizzard pics

The storm blew in at noon at our house! This is what it looked like when it started:

Here is only 1 hour later:

Five hours later:

It snowed all night long and here's what I woke up to the following morning:

What happened to the ruler?

I apologize for the window screen but I wanted to show you one of the drifts on the side of our house:

Crazy huh? The storm blew out of here around 10 am! I have a driveway to shovel now!

Stupid snowstorm

It's cancelled our weekend getaway! We were planning on driving to Albuquerque to meet up with Josh's mom and his brother for a long weekend. Thought we had it all worked out by delaying it a day and a half but she called this morning and cancelled! Bummer, but she might have made the best choice. It would have been risky to travel, only 4 hours into it and our interstate is closed. I've taken pictures and will post those in a bit. Stay tuned!

Another book review!

Just finished reading "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" and absolutely loved it! It's another long book but it was a moving story and really interesting. Full of suspense!

New purchase

I hated our previous area rug in the living room because it was extremely hard to vacuum due to the raised design on it and it was a solid color and showed every little piece of grass, dirt, or hair.

Here's our new rug:

This is kind of out there for me but I'm loving it. I've been told by a few people that our house was a bit bland. I don't think so anymore!

Tristan picked this rug almost immediately in the store but of course I had to go through every one available and compare it with one of our pillows to get a good match. 45 minutes later I went with the one he picked in the first place. Hmmmm, maybe he's got an eye for that kind of thing? (Our couches look a bit weird in this lighting but they are a light tan.)

Sick boys playing soccer!

My boys are sick and have not wanted to pass up on anything yet! They had their games yesterday and really hung in there like champs!

Aidan's game was first in Denver. This was the start of his season and man did he start with a bang! 3 goals, they call this a hat trick in which anyone who is wearing a hat takes it off and throws it on the field. This is what happened for my sweet Aidan. Awesome! His team ended up winning their first game 4-2!

Back to the Springs we go for Tristan's game. I was a bit more worried for him because he's a day or two behind Aidan with the cold and he was facing the #2 team in the state. They've never beat them before until yesterday, 1-0! Tristan pretty much had an easy game - he hung out in the defense and didn't move around much. They call his position "the sweeper" because he's the last person to get past until you reach the goalie. Luckily he didn't have that much action yesterday and when they did get past him they made a mistake or the wind became a factor. (We had 30 mph wind yesterday afternoon!) His team is 2-0 and you can see them sitting atop their division for the first time ever at http://www.csysa.org/schstand/IS09/80_5_21.html! (3Lions)

The boys have also finished up archery and I'm happy to share that Aidan won 2nd place for the 3rd grade in their competition!

Lone Ranger

I'm the only one left in the house who isn't sick yet! Tristan and Josh came down with it yesterday. NO!!!!

By the way - I mentioned T's science project last week and we finally have mold! It only took 15 days. I've never been so happy to see mold in my life!

Aidan has cooties.

Some sort of cold but the only symptom so far is a barking cough. I know the barking cough makes you think of croup but for some reason when the boys get sick they always have a barking cough. Anyway, he's kind of losing his voice but other than that seems fine. I've asked him the past two mornings if he'd like to skip archery but he hasn't so he must feel okay, he just sounds horrible when he coughs.

Josh and I have that weak feeling in our bodies so I hope we are able to fight off whatever virus this is. But I'm so tired!