Even though it is not a holiday in the USA, we celebrated boxing day today. That is, we took down and boxed up all our Christmas decorations. It seems we also spent a good deal of the day shoveling snow. I’m afraid I might have a sore back in the morning! Later in the afternoon we went outside and went sledding. We are pretty luck to have a pretty good sledding hill in our front yard. Chris, Emily and Brielle came over. Chris and Brielle...

It was a fun Christmas morning. The kids loved the new bikes that Santa brought – especially Gehrig. He wanted to put all his snow clothes on so he could go outside and ride it. We probably have about 18 inches out there right now. We spent the day at Ken & Laura’s house. We played a few games and ate a lot of good food. It was a fun day.

I wasn’t feeling very well today. I didn’t sleep well because of stomach pains. I woke up around 4:00, still quite tired, but unable to sleep. I think I had a stomache flu. I was pretty nausiaus all day. Rachel went over to her mom’s house around noon and was there until about 6:00 helping her bake all sorts of cookies. Once she got home she said her dad was putting together some bicycles, so I went to help out. He said he...

We had a family party of sorts again tonight. This time it was with my mom and Harvey and his kids. We had a room reserved at Red Robin. I’m sure we got a discount because that is where Alex works. It was a fun night. It was especially nice having that room so the kids could run around without disturbing everyone else.

Last night Rachel created some chore charts for the kids. This morning when I came up for lunch Gehrig said, “Dad, come look on my door!” I didn’t bother going there and just said “what is it?” He said, “I did my jobs. Mommy was so proud of me!” It was a pretty fun day. It snowed all day long! I took a break in the afternoon to help Rachel finish shoveling. When Gehrig and Gracie were playing in the snow...