Ginger, Ginger, Ginger!

During Sacrament meeting yesterday, totally out of the blue, Ginger leans over and asks if my bottom hurts. I had not complained at all of it hurting or anything. Although I had slipped and fallen a few times this past week.

I said, "No, does your bottom hurt?"

She said, "No."

I ask her, "Why would my bottom hurt?"

She replies, "Because your bottom is so big."

Don't ask me! She's a special little girl.

A week of snow storms

What do you do in cold snowy weather? Well, I like to bake. Here is a sweet potato pie that I made. I made one the week before for David's work, it looked better than this one but I forgot to get a picture. And the thing in the middle is supposed to be snowflake.

On Thursday we got a good amount of snow. The earlier snow had melted a little so there was an even thicker layer of ice underneath. We got the Suburban stuck twice because of that. With the fresh snow it packed just right to put the tires in hole and let them spin. The second time I got it stuck some firefighters were driving by and was nice enough to help me. Aren't firefighters the best!! :) It was at the bottom of our driveway and the kids were up at the house. After their help in getting the truck up to the house this is what I found of the kids. Lucy was in the house watching a movie and Callie, George, and Ginger were outside marching in the snow. Well, around the bushes it had created some snow drifts that made the snow look the same deepth as the rest of the snow they were walking in. They got a little stuck. It looks like George was the smart one with gloves. I guess Callie left one at school and Ginger couldn't find any because they were in the dryer.

Carson coming home from school.

The snow drift outside of the side door of our garage.

Mount Shasta usually gets more snow than in Weed where we are at.

This is a storage garage outside the church.

There is minimal parking so we have to get there early. This past Sunday there was not a lot of people there, and it was not because of Super Bowl Sunday.

We had another storm come through on Saturday.

Here is one of the two entrances to the church.

The other, of the two entrances, is in the bottom picture.

Our Satelite is not working as well. A combination of snow and wind damage.

Here is everyone ready for church.

Our hungry visitor

January Birthdays

January 10th, David turned 35.

January 21st, Callie turned 9. Just one more year Callie and you can get your ears pierced.

January 24th, George turned 7. One more year George and you can be baptized.

On the 2nd David's dad turned 63.

The day before David's, Matt turned 33.

On the 15th David's grandmother turned 93.

On the same day as Callie, Curtis turned 33.

Some odd ages!

A little more snow came our way

Here is the church in Mount Shasta.

That is George sitting on the pile of snow that had slid off the roof.

The boys were wanting to build a snow cave. They had more fun throwing snowballs and climbing on the snow.

Ginger gave this look when I put her up there but I missed it, so I had her reenact it.

Here is a park down the street from the church.

The first and the last picture are from yesterday. The others are from today.

Callie has been sick with a sore throat and swollen glands the last two days, so all the girls have been home. Yesterday we had a High School Musical double feature and today we did PS2 High School Musical Sing It(Karaoke). Of course Callie was feeling better today. Its funny to watch Lucy sing the songs. I guess its funny to watch all of them do it. Carson really gets into it. George won't do it though. He did it one night after the other kids went to bed. He doesn't like singing like the others do.

Snow, Snow, Snow

We have had quite the snow storm these past few days. But we have been very blessed that we didn't get it as bad as many places in California and other parts of the country. Mount Shasta, where we used to live, got it a little worst than here in Weed. There are 10 miles between the two towns but Mount Shasta is higher in elevation.
Thursday started with rain and snow that gave us a nice layer of slush that later turned into ice. Here is a picture of the garden from the front porch. The power went out for a few hours that evening and the kids didn't know what to do with themselves with out it. We played a card game, ate by candle light, and learned some relaxing techniques by our non-official yoga instructor David :)

Friday it was still coming down as slush in the morning then quickly turned to snow and got heavier.

Saturday was more snow. David went with the missionaries to help a family in the ward out by scraping 2 feet of snow off their roof. By the time they were done there was 2-3 inches of snow on the roof again.


Today the sun came! There is more snow coming but its nice to know that the sun is still out there.
We have all have had plenty of hot cocoa and drying our clothes in front of the fire. I think the kids went out to play just so they could come in and ask for cocoa. I'm sure the snow was fun to play in as well. It was great snowball snow.

Sledding with the youth

David and I both went so we took Carson with us. He only has another year and a half before he is officially considered a youth.
Our younger children stayed at the church with another YW leader that was watching her children and making cinnamon rolls for everyone. We had chili as well when we got back to the church.

Some of the leaders even posed like they did anything. David went down a few times and I went down once.

Here is a cool picture of Mount Shasta we took later in the day.