POTW-5 and Ice!

Well, the snow is almost gone.  Time for another storm.  One is due to roll in tomorrow. 

Here is our pic of the week:

We've already had quite an eventful week here on our street.  Notice that we no longer have an ice skating rink in our cul-d-sac?  Well, take a moment to remind yourself... behold the glacier:

 And now:

 All I had to do was call the city.  At least we haven't suffered with it for 38 years (like our neighbors).  They brought out all this equipment and had the ice compleatly gone in an hour.  I would have taken pics but I felt weird when there was one of these out there:

and this:

and this:

and this massive thing I can't find a picture of.

I should've taken a picture.

Off to School Pic of the Week-4

Starting to snow as Zach leaves for school:

 20 minutes later:

Another 20:

Hmm, Ryan took his motorcycle to work today...

July

Back in July we went to Utah for a family vacation!  We went for Ryan's cousin's wedding and then stayed for 9 more days to have fun.  Of course we spent time at Temple Square:

My favorite flower at Temple Square:

 (Hey Olivia, I took this all by myself...are you proud?  Or do I stink and just don't know it?)

We also went to the children's museum 2 times!  It was really cool!

Keep going...I've posted a few other things...

Basement Shelves

I love our basement shelves.  We built them at the end of July.  These ones are for food storage and some kitchen stuff we use less often (like the turkey platter for thanksgiving).  We're going to build more in the laundry room for...junk.

Scroll down for this week's pic of the week!

Pic of the Week-3

Not much different than last week.  It did snow and melt since my last picture though.  And I took this at a really bad time of day too.  Oh well...I'm no professional.  :)

Pic of the Week 2 (1 technically)

Christmas is over.  I didn't blog about it all.  But it was good.  The end.

So, I'm maybe weird but I like to know things about previous years.  Like, I like to know how many days it snowed in previous years, and when the first snow was, and when I planted my seeds for transplanting into the garden, and when we had really cold days or really hot days in the summer.  Weird stuff like that.  Here is my project for this year, partially brought on my my excitement for my new front yard garden:  I'm going to take a picture each week (and actually post it that week too...which means this post is late) of the front yard.  So here it is.  From week 2 of 2012:

I also enjoy seeing the snow melt and come again.  See, I'm weird.  There's a lot to talk about in this picture that I have not ever blogged about:  When we bought the house it looked like this:

We painted!  (And got new windows, and pruned our tree)

Also, we totally changed the yard.  Which will be easier to see in the spring.

December 13

Ryan and the kids set up the Christmas train under the tree.

And I made more cookies.