Visit down south, get away from snow NOT.

I guess winter is still here, we went to Utah to get away from the snow for a couple of days. Will that wasn't to be because Utah had a big snow storm a couple of days before we left Rexburg. The roads were fine going down, but the snow was piled up in the yards. Tara's yard had some good sized drifts that reminded me of home. Tom's yard had some snow as well, the only good thing about Utah it was starting to get warm enough to melt off the snow.

When we got home on Monday we still had the same amount of snow on the ground. We hope we brought some of the warmer air with us and maybe we can get some of our snow to melt.

We had a great time visiting with all of the grandkids and seeing our kids. I even took some pictures of Isabella and Alex. Here are a couple for you to see how much Isabella has grown.

What a winter we are having

We just got an additional 7 inches of snow last night with more expected today. Just so you can see what we are dealing with I went out and took some pictures. Looks like I will be getting on the roof and doing a little shoveling. the pictures of the back yard show the snow blower almost buried, it makes it hard to blow the snow over all we have.

Month gone by already

The month of Janurary is gone already. We had a great month with all the kids visiting at one time or another. We missed seeing Tom and Alicia, but with their new baby Isabella, they didn't want to take her out. They all came up to the Rexburg Temple open house. what a great experience that was.
We are also having a winter for the first time in a few years, we have snow clear up to my waist. It's great to have the snow I hope it doesn't all melt at the same time. We still wonder why we decided to stay in this country. It has been a good place to raise our children and some of the weather is not bad.

My children are buggiing to add something to my blog, they want me to keep up with them, it will never happen.

A lot has been going on and I will let you read all about from their blogs because they write better than I do.

I will say that the Rexburg Temple is done and the open house is almost here. The Open house will be from Dec.29 to Jan. 26. Becky and I are tour guides on Saturday mornings, we are looking forward to that experience. Here is a picture of the Temple in the setting sun.

We had a wonderful Father's day weekend. We drove over to Boise to visit with Toby, Tammy and Tory, Elizabeth and Michelle. Tassa and Tawny were also there from Utah. We had a full weekend starting out with golf at the Warm Springs golf course. We then went for a little shopping in Boise. Then had a BBQ at Tory's with everybody there, Mom and Dad, Tassa, Tawny, Toby, Tammy, Tory Elizabeth, and Michelle. tammy took some pictures you can check them out on their blog "Tsquared".

We had to leave to get back to Rexburg for church on sunday, but it was nice to visit for a short time.

Grandma and Michelle

Kayla, her baby Maezlie and Michelle

A view of our temple going up. This picture taken May 2006