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The kids had 2 snow days a week ago-Thurs & Friday. The main roads were clear but apparently some back roads were not. We had gotten 3-5 inches. They were off this last Friday for end of the qtr and today. It's nice to have 2 four day weekends! Our snow is gone now =) it's been in the 40's here. Which when you have 6 inches total of snow, it doesn't take long to thaw!

On Friday, I brought Hayley to see the Kings Firecracker jump rope team. A lady I work with, her daughter is on the team. Kings is located next to Mason which is 10 min from Loveland. The team has performed all over. Their website is www.kingsfirecrackers.com you can watch videos of their performances. They performed at the Loveland/Milford varsity bball game.

Life at the barn is thawing out. We had a cold spell for a week or so and the horses stayed in the barn all week. UGH! Now they're back out in the mud.........a bunch of us went in to buy a new gate for one of the pastures. I sponsored Cinnamon this month. The $$ will go to her grain, hay and bedding. With that, I can go see her and spend time with her when I want. Which is hard now since everything is mud. I could use the indoor arena. At least her expenses or most of them are paid.

Hayley and I are going to Kids Against Hunger Saturday with the 46er's church group to fill packets of food. 46'ers had it planned anyway, but maybe these packets will be sent to Haiti.

I think that's all for now. I'm off to get lunch.

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! We had a fun xmas and break. We woke unexpected early on Wed am and thought we need to leave then instead of Thursday. We woke the kids at 5 am, packed and were out the door by 6:30 am to beat the snow storm in Mn! Glad we did, it started snowing as we crossed the Mn border. We had rain most of the way there. The kids did great as they were tired and slept =) and Jake did great too! He had the whole back to himself to sprawl out and snooze. We stayed with Doug & Lisa and the kids had a blast-me too! Thank you for having us! Jake and Molly had fun too playing in the snow. As you can see the Darling Divas here........listening to the Ipod. We went to church xmas eve and woke to find Santa came! He found the Ohio kids in Becker =) We saw gma/gpa on Saturday for xmas and went sledding with all aunts/uncles and gpa on Sunday! Maddy was too scared to go down the hill herself. She's the pink ball in gpa's lap. Brent went down 37 times he said-he was keeping track! Everyone had so much fun and it was wonderful weather to be out. We went to Carol's for pizza and to spend the night. Scott, kids and Doug went home Monday and Hayley and I met Paige and Sarah for dinner =) Thank you gals for a fun night!!

We left Tuesday, had a good trip home. Wednesday we opened presents from Santa (he stopped here too) and other gifts we didn't have room to take with. Gpa/gma were supposed to come back with us but gma is not feeling good so in a few weeks they'll be here =)

We had a good New Year's eve. The kids watched the ball drop and Maddy fell asleep on the floor before then. It's back to school, work, the usual. The kids had a 90 minute school delay on Tuesday due to the 2 inches of snow we had. Today school is canceled because of the 3-5 inches we're supposed to get here sometime today. Mind you it hasn't started snowing yet! I guess I'd rather have the kids home then have dangerous roads this afternoon getting them home. So who knows if there's school tomorrow.

God bless you in this new year!