January 31, 2014

They had an awards assembly at school.  She got one for academic achievement.

January 30, 2014

The birds have been eating seeds from the weeds, leaving their tracks in the snow.

January 29, 2014

January 28, 2014

Apparently, if you get a certain type of snow and wind, you get snow rollers.  We get lots of wind, so we had them all over the yard. 

January 27, 2014

Here we have the elusive snow plow truck, out for an early morning scrape. 
The kids didn't have school today.  Again.  But roads were terrible, and the wind this morning was strong.  The wind even blew snowballs all over the yard, which you can see in the foreground.  Tomorrow is supposed to be down below zero, and school is already canceled.

January 26, 2014

More snow!

January 25, 2014

It's been snowing and blowing all day.  I can see grass in a few places, and 2 foot drifts in other places.

January 24, 2014

My daughter negotiating for Pokemon cards.

January 23, 2014

Footprints in the snow from the kids coming home.

January 22, 2014

The fire burning in our woodburning furnace.

January 21, 2014

Getting home from school.

January 20, 2014

We tried to tarp over the sand for the swimming pool, but the wind keeps blowing it off, so we keep throwing wood over it.

January 19, 2014

January 18, 2014

My husband got this sign for Christmas.  Looks good in the family room.

January 17, 2014

My husband got me this Christmas blow-up for my birthday.  It's really big.  We got it out and made sure it worked today. 

January 16, 2014

My daughter's color-by-number.

January 15, 2014

Lego makes calenders.

January 14, 2014

This is the hot trend now in schools- rubber band bracelets.  They're fun to make.  I've made a few, and so has my sister. 

January 13, 2014

Today was her last basketball game.  She said she likes it though and wants to join basketball again next season.

January 12, 2014

My husband got me an old style longbow for Christmas.  Today was nice enough we could go outside and shoot.  We were just seeing how far we could get the arrows to go today. 

January 11, 2014

Our stream is a little bit flooded today.

January 10, 2014

I bought some cookies for the kids to decorate.

January 9, 2014

My daughter made another basket today- and I got a picture of the ball in flight.  She's standing, second from left in red with her arms up.  She's got one more game next Monday.

January 8, 2014

My son got minifigure cases for his Legos.  He has them filled up already.

January 7, 2014

It was cold enough this morning for there to be a decent amount of ice on the inside of the windows.  It's scary to think how much ice would be there if it was below 20 like it was in many places recently.  It was around 9 below when I took this picture.

January 6, 2014

Today was the coldest it's been in a while.  Yesterday around this time it was 44 out.  During the day, every time I looked it was 2 degrees colder, until it was almost -12.  The wind was blowing hard too.  The kids got an extra 2 days vacation from school, as tomorrow is supposed to be about the same.

January 5, 2014

Playing a card game.  She's funny, she'll get all giggly when she gets good cards.

January 4, 2014

We moved the trail camera to a different spot.

January 3, 2014

The camper makes the barn and tractor look small.  But it's good to have those out of the snow.  We didn't get much snow blowing into our east facing door, but we did get a snow drift right in front of it.

January 2, 2014

Winter- it's here!  It's been snowing and blowing all day, though the snowflakes were small so it could have been a lot more snow.  It was getting close to being too tall for our garden tractor though.  Maybe this year we'll try to find a plow for the big tractor, now that it will have a barn to stay in to keep it's diesel engine warm enough to start.

January 1, 2014

Two of my kids, my nephews and cousin's boys.  They were the seven youngest at the family party.