Hello from cold Jamestown!
This is day two of double digits below zero. The two previous days showed highs of 36 - now that is a temperature swing! We are mostly staying indoors and are sure to warm up our cars before going out. Not too different from other winter days, except the kids are complaining about not being able to play outside.
Sara waits with great anticipation each day for her friend Samuel (our daycare provider's son who is in 5th grade) to get home from school. Sara thinks the sun rises and sets around him. This may be partly due to the fact that he takes her sledding every day. Now with the cold weather, she is missing her little play date. However, this week she is keeping busy as Chef of the Week; making snacks for her friends. Here she is making dough for individual pizzas that the kids will top to their liking.
Last week, Ben had the opportunity to go to ski school at Big Sky. To hear him
talk, he was dropping out of Kindergarten and joining this alternative school. He had a great time (he made it to Green Dino) and is ready to go again. Trent didn't get to do as much skiing as he would have liked, but is glad that now he and Ben will be able to do this activity together. Sara and I stayed behind so I could continue to bring home the bacon as well as prepare for my Grandma's birthday party.
talk, he was dropping out of Kindergarten and joining this alternative school. He had a great time (he made it to Green Dino) and is ready to go again. Trent didn't get to do as much skiing as he would have liked, but is glad that now he and Ben will be able to do this activity together. Sara and I stayed behind so I could continue to bring home the bacon as well as prepare for my Grandma's birthday party.My Grandma turned 87 last week, so we celebrated with an open house at the Pingree Community Hall. My cousins and their kids all came home so we were able to take 4 generation pictures and catch up with each other. We are a small bunch, but are rarely all together. My cousins' children are the same ages as ours, so they had fun playing together. Grandma also had the pleasure of visiting with the entire group of Steele nieces and nephews (her sister's children) and some of their kids and grandkids as well as many other friends and family. Fun was had by all.
Congratulations to Priscilla and Mylo! Sorry we missed your special day (also our anniversary!). Please post some pictures. We would love to see them.
Hope everyone is healthy and warm!
Tonya
3 comments:
Tonya, awesome pictures! What's Green Dino?
We are thinking about going to Fort Ransom next
weekend to get the kids on skis. Want to join us?
Hi, guys!
Green Dino is the third level of Big Sky's ski school. I can't remember exactly the skills they are proficient at that level - but I kept his "report card" so I have a record of it.
We are going to Terry Peak the weekend of Presidents' Day. So we will enroll Ben in ski school there also. I will probably take a lesson or two. I'm not much into skiing, but will give it another go.
Let us know what Fort Ransom is like. We've never skied there.
hey you guys should come up to the Bottineau Winter Park, we may not have a ski school but it is definitly a good place for beginner skiers... wow i sound like an advertisement haha
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