Happy Inauguration Day!

Happy Inauguration Day everyone! No matter what your political leanings, today is history being made! Yahoo!!!

Weekend activities

It warmed up a bit this weekend, so we tried to get out the cooped-up yayas by taking some short sledding runs down the pile in the backyard:

And digging tunnels through it:

Inside, M and M built castles using the cool Harry Potter building set they got from Nana and Boppa:

Gotta keep busy to fight off cabin fever!

LA: 85, Tucson: 64, Grinnell: 3

I'll give you sunscreen!!! Supposed to be -35 windchill overnight. Definitely too cold for sledding...but it sure is pretty, isn't it?

Deck and backyard

From the front

Fire hydrant

Crap...

...my new digital video camera needs a 2.0 port to transfer video to my computer. Does my computer have a 2.0 port?? No. @#$$^&&*$$(&^%$@!!!

More winter

Well, it is snowing sideways... The kids are getting out early. Windchill is 17 degrees. But ha ha!! It's only 58 in Tucson right now!

Winter wonderland!

Six inches of snow last night, ya'll! We still had swim meet today. I took some video with the new digital video camera...whoopee! Now I have to figure out how to get it onto the computer...soon, I promise!

Update

Not too much to report at the current time...we're all getting back to our routines of school and work, although Mark doesn't have classes yet.

We had another offer on our house, but it was very low. For the moment we've passed, although we are considering taking a low offer with the knowledge of gaining a good neighbor. It's hard to know what to do. Should we just take the hit financially? Will the next offer be higher? It's not just about the money. Yet I know that among the houses in the price range of ours, ours is definitely one of the nicest despite its drawbacks. Ugh... On the upside, our town is a more steady and stable market than the national market.

I'm thinking of torturing myself by posting comparative temperatures between here and Tucson, where my parents are:

Our town: 8 degrees; Tucson: 40 degrees (well, I guess it's only 8:30 in the morning there)