Post-Turkey

 The kiddos have been enjoying cousin time.  Today we tried to go for a family picture, but Seth refused to have his picture taken.  (Well, he took one with Uncle Isaac but wouldn't get in the one with his cousins -- too bad!  The photographers on duty this morning weren't great, though, so we didn't end up buying any of the other photos anyhow.)  Oh well -- at least the older boys had fun at the bouncy house afterward!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving!  The cousins (and grownups) enjoyed their time together!

Why, Yes, More Snow

 The boys had snow days yesterday and today, and we even got a couple more inches of snow.  It would have made for better sledding, but the boys had colds, so we didn't want to encourage them to be out in the cold.  I'm guessing they'll have other opportunities in the next few months!  Stanley the intrepid snow dog enjoyed himself, though.

Another Snow Day

 The boys enjoyed another snow day, complete with a little bit of sledding, snow angels, and (for Matthew) hot chocolate.  Stanley was pleased with the snow, too!

Thanks to Aunt Kimberly for the snow pants and Steve & Karen for the sleds!

Snow Day

The kiddos had their first snow day of the season today, and they'll have another one tomorrow.  (UB did not cancel school, so I still had to go to work!)  This is a picture of campus, and as you can see, our area didn't get much snow -- maybe an inch or two.  But the Southtowns were completed slammed with what the news is calling historic lake effect snow -- over four feet of snow in some places, with more to come tonight and tomorrow.  It's absolutely amazing what a difference a few miles makes. You can see the wall of clouds looking one direction, and blue skies the other direction.

Canada

Road trip this weekend to visit our friends who live outside of Toronto -- the first time Matthew and James have been out of the country!  They were curious about what Canada was like.  We told them it was pretty much like here except the money looked different.  :)

Steve and Karen's kids are teenagers now, but much to Matthew and James's delight, they still have Legos.  :)  Mattie's other project was drawing a picture of each person's favorite thing.  James was a bit under the weather, but he was happy to sit on the couch and watch the football game, and report the score to us every so often.  

The adults had a great time catching up -- hard to believe it has been ten years since we saw everyone! It's not a bad drive at all from here, so I expect that we'll manage to get together at least a bit more frequently now.