Snow Days

equal lazy days. We’ve had a lot lately.

Sledding at the Ranch

Clint’s brother Andy and his wife Jodi invited us up to their family ranch for a little sledding. I was super excited to be able to go, but we don’t have the appropriate snow gear! I hate being cold and so does Bode so I just never kept up on getting him new sizes of snow pants etc. as he got older and grew out of the ones he wore when he was 2. Like once. Luckily I had just gotten Bode some snow boots and we borrowed almost everything else. Jodi had lots of stuff, and so did my neighbor. Thanks heavens!

It was so much fun. Holy cow. I really wasn’t expecting to love it as much as I did. It was beautiful that day and it was nice to drive up into the mountains and get out of the smog we have been suffering with forever. I didn’t get cold.. in fact I took off my coat at one point because I was so hot. Owen took a nap and missed out on a bunch of sledding on the big hill, but Bode had a blast. He screamed in excitement the entire ride down the hill. He wasn’t a huge fan of walking up the hill back to the top and got lazy some of the times, but lucky for him there was usually someone to pull him up. After a few rides we even had someone to pull us all back up. I think it helped that his cousins Darci, Drew and Brooklyn were champs and having a great time too. He lasted way longer than I thought he would! Clint and I had so much fun going down together. I rode on his back and I was a little scared a few of the times. I guess the hill got a lot faster the day after we went.. so that’s probably good I got to go when I did! Clint had the bright idea of having us go down a faster, bumpier trail with a little jump thing. It was fun but I ended up smashing him since I was on top of him and his gut hurt a bit after that. It was his idea!!!

Bode was ready to go inside before Clint and I were, so Clint got him situated with a movie and he hung out until we were done. We came back in to find he had gotten into and eaten almost half a thing of Oreos. Maybe more. We can’t remember how many were in there. It was so funny. He tried to deny it at first, but his mouth was covered in them.

After Owen woke up we headed back out for round two. We took the kids to a tiny hill just in front of the house. Owen loves the snow. He had such a great time. He could have stayed out there forever I swear. He was so cute walking around looking like a small marshmallow. His cheeks were so rosy and he just wanted to keep going down over and over again. It was so cute!

Thanks so much Andy and Jodi for letting us hang out with your family. It was so much fun and we always love an invitation to the ranch. Here are tons of pictures of our day.

Fish

Bode has been obsessed with dinosaurs for years. Like half of his life. Fish came in second and he’s always loved them too. Along with his fave red velociraptor he usually carries around a rapala or two. Clint cuts the hooks off them and Bode carries them around like they are toys.

Well, he decided the other day he doesn’t like dinosaurs anymore. He’s been spending a lot of time reading his dad’s fly fishing magazines, been asking for more fish toys, and we even cut out a bunch of clippings and put some up in his room. We’ll see how long this lasts. :)

Yay

I totally skipped over this but Canon had my stuff for 28 days! Everything that could have happened to cause a delay did. It took 5 days for them to check in my gear. Then they sent me the repair invoices and they were trying to charge me all this money for stuff that should have been under warranty. I provided proof of purchase etc. and the charges were dropped but that delayed things another 3 days. Then they had one day to work on my stuff (they require at least 5-7 week days) and their employees were off for Christmas. Once back in the office they worked for a few more days and then had New Years off. After that they finally got to work on it all and it got delayed when the senior tech was double checking things. He found something wrong. Another day to work on that.

I was so over it all! I quit harassing them after 3 weeks and figured I would just be surprised when it arrived at my door. Fed Ex tried to deliver it one day and I missed it because I was in the shower. It was like torture. I couldn’t drive to the warehouse to get it because I had Activity Days to host at my house and they closed at 5. What’s one more day when you already waited 27?

Anyway – I unpacked the box and snapped these pics! SOO glad I can take pictures again.

Snow

It’s all fun and games until you fall down.

Sickies

It’s been a really rough winter on us all. It seems like on and off since Christmas time we have all had some sort of bug. Poor Owen is getting 4 molars and the final one just broke through. Add that to his colds here and there and he’s pretty miserable sometimes.

The boys do pretty well even with being sick. We’ve played lots of games, watched lots of movies, made lots of messes, stayed in jammies for days (Well – Bode prefers mismatched outfits that include a pair of shorts..) I hope we are over the worst of it.