Penn State Chics Dig Nerds

We've spent the last four days enjoying (dealing?) with several snow storms.  Saturday's wasn't that bad because it warmed up afterward.  It started snowing Sunday evening and didn't stop until Tuesday morning some time.  Because the roads are in such poor condition, school was cancelled again today (Tuesday).  Although, I enjoy them being home, I think they could have gone to school today. Of all days for them to be home, I really wanted them to go this week.  Amie is really congested and not feeling all that great.  I wanted them to go to school so that they aren't around it all day!  I'm  hoping to contain it to just Amie-- we'll see. I'm disinfecting like a crazy person. Yesterday, Natalee and Brady both went to a friends house for the afternoon.  I shoveled a lot of snow so that they could get there.  I don't know how to use the beastly, old, extremely loud snow blower-- and I don't know that I would like it even if I did. ...

The two days following Christmas were unseasonably warm here.  The first afternoon after Christmas, we decided to hike to the flag pole again.  Amie has been asking to go there a lot.  I think they could walk on the stones at the flag pole all day long.  Here in this video Amie must have broken something on the log with her bottom and thought it was really funny:  In this video, Brady used a stick as a horse:  On the way back to our car, we decided to cut through the cemetary.  However, we did not realize that the cemetary encompassed so much space.  So, while we thought we were near our car, we were not even close.  We ended up having to walk down the ridge to nearly the bottom so that we could cross the ravine and hike up the other ridge of gravestones. It was pretty despite the added distance to our hike. When we were almost at the flag pole, Brady decided he'd rather go to the Peace Chapel. So, the next morning, w...

Every year I put together pictures and videos from the previous year into a DVD for some lucky recipients. :) In case you missed it and you want to see it, here is the picture slideshow portion of the DVD.  It's set to music, so turn on your sound.