Sydney the Artist

Sydney painting a bowl of fruit.
















A pot of flowers with dirt in the pot and the roots going down.















Brynny's pink blankie.















Sydney picking oranges and roses to help her pregnant Mom.

Kurt and Bonnie

Shawn's brother Kurt married his sweetheart Bonnie on Saturday. Richelle's family came in from Alaska and Bart and Katie came from Pennsylvania. The whole weekend was really fun and we are super excited to have Bonnie in the family. Hopefully she can put up with us.








































Hopefully we can convince Kurt and Bonnie to join the blogging craze soon.

A snow death with skills

I went snowcaving with the scouts over the weekend. Somehow I'd managed to avoid that experience back when I was a scout - we winter camped in cabins with electricity. This was the real deal though. We started digging the caves for our young men's activity on Tuesday and then finished on Friday. Talk about work! We had to help the boys a lot too and didn't finish the caves till nearly 10 P.M. Then we lit a fire and started working on dinner, finally collapsing into bed about midnight. I was worried about being cold and brought two sleeping bags - one slid inside the other. No need to worry though - I was too hot most of the night - took off my hat, unzipped the bags etc. We woke up Saturday to a beautiful sunny day and so I showed the kiddies a few of the mad sled skills Kurt taught me!