Winter...again

It's that time of year again, you know the time I hate so much... Winter!  I hate that we have to wear layers of clothes, I'm not advocating wearing skimpy Daisy Dukes or anything, but when you live up north in winter months, you are wearing gloves, hats, scarves, undershirts, sweaters, fur lined boots and jackets.  And, no, I'm not exaggerating.   And when you finally get your car warmed up enough to go somewhere and get to the place you got bundled up for, you have to spend 5 minutes removing all the above mentioned items or else take the chance of burning up, and even then you may be sweating because stores and jobs have their heat so high to compensate for the frigid temperatures outside.  

How I miss flip flops and sundresses.... Not to knock all the people that love winter, my husband and boys are included in that, but I long for warmer weather, longer days, and the simplicity of just walking outside getting in my car and leaving with out all the time and trouble that I have to deal with during these months...

Snow Trails

Josh decided to take a few days off of work for the Holidays, and we decided to take the boys somewhere fun. At first we thought of going to the indoor water park, but at the last minute we found Snow Trails. This place is AWESOME, they have skiing and snow tubing. We took the boys tubing with Tanya (Josh's sister) and her family.

The hill is 1100 feet, you take a ramp up to the top of the hill, with you tube, and slid all the way, either by yourself or holding onto each others tube (which makes your trip down even faster). It was SO, so, so much fun, and only about an hour away, so we will go back soon!

Christmas cookies

This year, my friend Crystal invited me to her house to bake Christmas cookies. What a blast it was, we made Buckeyes, Peanut butter blossoms, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Toffee, dipped marshmallows, candy's and more candy's!!

We baked for about 6 hours, and I was sick of the smell of butter, but WOW, it made a lot of food!!

Turkey Trot update

Well, Thanksgiving was a cold, wet day and to be truthful I thought more than once of just rolling over in bed and pushing the snooze button. The boys wouldn't of allowed that though, they were SO pumped for the race. We got to the race and were all bundled up, me with my lightweight jacket, Sophie with 2 pairs of exercise pants and 4 shirts, plus gloves, hat and a jacket.... and we were all Benjayed (is that a word) up too, knees, and back were good to go..

The kids ran there race and then we ran (um, walked mostly) ours. We did pretty good time, Sophie came in right over 1 hour, and I was 1 hour 7 minutes. We both think we should take time off of that for the delayed starting that happens when you are in the back...

After the race, we went to Josh's mom and dad and had a fat laden, calorie extravagent meal with dessert's galore! It was a really fun day...

Because I am thrifty... some say cheap, but I say thrifty. I decided this year to run in the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot downtown instead of the Flying Feathers Four Miler that I ran in last year. Why you may ask?? Well let me tell you, the 4 miler is $40 per person, you get a shirt and a medal BUT in the Turkey trot you get the same for $35 PLUS your kids get to run for free and they get shirts and medals! Not isn't that a better deal, the only flaw with this plan was that I am going to have to run (let's face it walk) 5 miles.... YES, it's a 5 miler!!! I.am.going.to.DIE!!!

The pain will be worth it because I saved $35 - $5 for the difference of me, and the $10 registration per child for the 100 yard dash... again, I am so cheap, I mean thrifty!