We're all in this Together: January 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Our handsome boy!!

Our little man is growing up! Dallin is 7 and some days seems to grow up right before our eyes!!

Too much snow is not good for tree's!

Dan and I woke up to a loud crashing noise at 7am one morning! Our first thought was one of our neighbors roofs had fallen in. We jumped up and ran to our windows. Dan was the one who discovered that it wasn't a roof it was our next door neighbors large maple tree! It had just toppled over from the weight of the snow! Our neighbor cheryl had hated that tree from the minute we moved in! We loved that tree though! We had taken family pictures in front of it in April and thought it was a beautiful tree!
Dan ran outside and talked to cheryl! Her Son tyler had been inspired ( no they are not LDS Or for that matter religious!)! He had gone out two hours before and decided to move cheryl's car 3 ft towards the garage! Then he shoveled some snow and went inside! When the tree fell it missed the car by 2ft!!
So after the phone company and power company have been called what does a boy from everett and a boy from Montana do when a tree falls down?? They grab chainsaw's of course!! Dan called our friend Landon over and they sawed the tree down for the wood for Landons stove. Of course they will let the wood dry so it will be ready for next year! Go country boys!!

Daniel and Landon sawing away

The front of cheryl's house

The tree made it all the way to the street!!

From our window you can see how close it came to Cheryl's car!!

CHUBBY BUNNY

After church snack of marshmallows!! Lilly loved them!!! Can you say chubby bunny??

Snow Play!!!

Spokane hit record snow fall in December! The kids loved the snow and begged to go outside every day!!! I think the total before it started to melt was 61in! You can say white christmas!!! We loved it! Snow much fun!!!

Ward christmas party

We had a great time at the ward christmas party this year! I already posted the santa pics but I had to post Emma as an angel in the nativity scene! isn't she beautiful!!! Dallin and Aliya singing! and daddy snuggling Lilly!! Oh happy holidays!!!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The best Papa Ed Ever!!!!

Dan and I had the opportunity to go to Vegas in Dec. I had been begging him to go to visit a friend down there. Work finally presented an opportunity to use when it scheduled a business trip for Dan down there. All we had to do was find someone to watch the kids! Ed had said he would love to come and help us if we needed someone so when we called him up, we thought he would back out with such a huge responsibility of all four kids for four days! But when Dan asked him he instantly said yes! As the trip got closer the weather got worse! We thought for sure he wouldn't be able to make it, but he did! Daniel and I flew out on the 15th of December! I was so excited to go! (My friend ended up moving very suddenly! I was sad I didn't get to see her, but we enjoyed the time that was just the two of us! I have never been to the strip before so it was crazy to see everything! When we booked the tickets to go it was 85 degrees and when we arrived it was 35 degrees! For those of you, who are thinking that’s miserable, don't! We left 12 degrees so 35 was a heat wave! We had a great time down there! We saw Chris angel (BOOOO!) and Blue man group (AWESOME!!!!!! when they come to Spokane we are planning on taking the kids!!)!!! Dan and I also went to Twilight (Dan thought it was stupid! I think if you like it the first time then don't go back for a second!) Dan showed me the Bellagio! The water fountain is awesome!! We stayed at the Wynn and LOVED our room! The view was incredible and the room its self was unbelievable!! We had a great time! The Fantastic weather followed us from Washington!! It snowed for the first time in 10 years in Las Vegas! Because of this a lot of flights out of Vegas were canceled. Most of Daniels co-workers had to spend 1-3 extra days in Las Vegas. Daniel and I headed to the airport early on Thursday to make sure we made our flight. We actually were able to get on an earlier flight! Awesome!! We flew out of Las Vegas feeling relived we were headed home! We landed in Seattle still thinking we were good to go. When we saw the first departure board we realized we had a problem! All the flights to and from Spokane were cancelled! Ed had called and told us that we had the worst snow storm in Spokane and it had dumped more than 31in in 1 day! The problem wasn't that the airport was closed, it was open! But no one could make it to the airport to make it run! So we stood in line for new tickets for either later that day or the next. After waiting for 2 hours we got the great news, we would not be able to fly out until SATURDAY!!! We tried everything to get some good news. After spending most of Thursday at the airport with no good news Daniel made some calls and found us a hotel in down town Seattle (every airport hotel was sold out! And some taxis wouldn't go to the "hilly" parts of Seattle!). We left the airport with horrible weather and everything icy! Seattle was worse than Vegas!! Ed was a trooper!! We were supposed to come home 4pm on Thursday. The only news we had to give him was that we had tickets for Saturday! (AT Ed’s house it was 40 below! He had about 92 sheep that he needed to get back to take care of! Besides being alone with 4 kids for 4 days and 3 feet of snow outside isn’t enough!) We crashed at a beautiful hotel, Sorrento!! We crashed, extremely tired! I forgot to mention that when we picked up our bags to go to the hotel I recognized mine by the swimsuit hanging out! So the next morning (Our 8th wedding anniversary!!), Daniel duck taped my bag closed for the trip home! And we headed to the airport by 9am (We had planned on earlier but we wanted to make sure planes were flying out of Spokane before we stood in lines at the airport!)! We got to the airport and the lines for everything were crazy! As much traveling as Dan does he said he had never seen it so chaotic! We went from one line to another and our miracle happened and we got on a flight for later that day at 6pm. She got us stand by tickets for a flight at 2pm! Yeah!! So we ran back and ate a good lunch!! Ran to put our names on standby and they already had 192 people on standby! And so the day of hanging out began! We found really comfy seat, watched a movie, played games, talked to everyone, argued, and slept! By 4pm we realized how truly lucky we were to have tickets at all! We bumped into friends of Dan’s who had been in Seattle since wed. And didn't have a flight out until sun. And the weather reported another storm on Sat. Yuck! After all of that we made it home!!! Our plane landed in Spokane around 7:30pm on Friday night!! We all cheered when it did land!! We dug our truck out of the snow and headed home! I don't think there was anyone happier that we were home than Papa Ed (ok maybe Emma!)! All in all it was a great trip! We had a great time! But I can honestly say we were soooooo happy to be home!!!