Sledding Time

More Snow Pics

Here are a few more snow pictures!!!
Just to clarify, we got about 6 inches of snow. Jon read my earlier post and wanted me to be more specific than just "a few inches" of snow.

Collin out riding around on his 4-wheeler!
Our House

Our Church

Ava was going to sleep in this tent on the ski trip. There weren't going to be enough bunk beds in the girls room, so she was going to use this. (Thanks to the Richesons who let us borrow it.) She was bummed that we didn't get to go on the trip, so tonight will be the 4th night running that we've let her sleep in it. I don't see what it's hurting...she loves it!

Camping Out
(in her room)

January Snow!!!

Unfortunately we had to cancel our ski trip because of the snow that hit North Carolina this past weekend. However, the kids have had a great time playing in the few inches of snow that we got here in Durham. Here are a few of the pictures from our adventures in the snow!

Emet's first few minutes out...not too sure what to think!

Still not sure...

Up to his ankles in snow!

No more pictures please!

Sledding...he loved it and so did she!

Daddy and the kiddos...sledding buddies!

Me and Emet

Snow Bunny

Ava loves the snow!

Some of our youth girls at a sledding hill...they loved it!

Monster Sale

The Children's Place is having their Monster Sale!!! I wanted to share in case some of you moms out there want to do some shopping. I got the best deals on kids' clothes today! I bought both of my kids clothes for next winter. I did my best "size guessing" and got some cute stuff! All of their winter items in the baby section are $2.99. All of their winter items in the big kids section are $3.99. Plus a nice lady in the store gave me a 15% off coupon! A summary of my shopping excursion would be somewhat like this...

Ava: 5 shirts, 6 pairs of pants, 2 hooded, fur lined sweaters, 9 pairs of panties and a puffy vest...

Emet: 10 pairs of pants, 3 long sleeve t-shirts, 2 hoodies, 1 fleece, 1 long sleeve polo, 1 button up shirt and 2 sweaters

Ava's cute puffy vest...

Cargo pants @$2.99

Sleepover

Caleb and Jenna spent the night with us last night and played with us all day today. We got in late after a dinner out with the youth. So the kids were not in bed until 10 or so...when I put them to bed, they all wanted to be on the air mattress. Ava was on one end, Jenna in the middle, and Caleb on the other end. When I checked on them before going to bed, this is what I found...

They were all in different places on the air mattress...not to mention Caleb was doing flips in his sleep! So cute!

Lovin' the Tigers!!!

I surprised Jon with tickets to a Clemson basketball game for Christmas. We went to see the Tigers play NC State on Saturday. Such a fun game to watch...the Tigers beat the Wolfpack in what turned out to be quite a close game (the second half was much closer than the first). The Tigers are doing well and ranked #16 in the polls right now! Go Tigers!

We were close enough to get pictures

Jon and Ava enjoying the game!

Jon and Emet taking time to smile...well at least Jon is smiling!
Emet actually enjoyed the game. He sat through the entire game, watching and of course eating some snacks!

Ava's sign said "I <3 the Tigers!"

Back to Boone...

We were blessed to be able to go back to Boone for a late anniversary trip last week. We left last week after Sunday night church to head up the mountain and back to one of our favorite places. Thanks to Bob and Linda (my uncle and aunt) for letting us use their "mountain room" for a couple of nights. What a blessing! We enjoyed time in town, driving around, a nice dinner at the Best Cellar and snowboarding at Beech Mountain. We celebrated our 6th anniversary. It's hard to believe that it has been six years...but our time together has been great. The Lord has blessed our marriage, given us two beautiful children and to that we are thankful!

A view from the mountain room...

Driving on one of our favorite roads

Dinner

*Sorry we have no snowboarding pictures. It was sooooooo cold! (16 degrees) I could hardly feel my fingers, even in my gloves. It was also extremely foggy...not great picture taking weather. We are taking the youth snowboarding in a couple of weeks...so hopefully we will have some cute boarding pics after that trip!