Last week... sorry for the delay... we got about 10" of snow over a 2-day period. Now being from Colorado that meant that school was still in. But this ain't Colorado y'all. Nobody here really understands how to drive in snow so all of the taxis weren't out working for nearly 3 days. On the 4th day a buddy of mine and I went out to pick up our new computers and it took 45 minutes to an hour to make a trip that normally takes about 7 minutes. The traffic was near unbearable because of snow alongside the road and scared drivers. It's all over now but Landon had some great times out in the snow building a snowman.
Yvonne and Landon made us all some snow cream... a friend of mine here couldn't believe that we ate snow but I explained to her that it was clean snow (i.e. not yellow) and we added some milk, sugar and vanilla and it was great. Here is a hilarious video of Landon talking about it.



This is one of Landon up on the radiator just amazed with all the snow that had fallen the night before.

Here are some more pics of Landon outside making a snowman. enjoy.

Well it was my turn to get up with the boys this morning and when my half-opened crusty eyelids peered out our family room window i saw white stuff. i figured it was just those little sleep cookies that get caught in the corner of your eyes kinda floating around in the muck after rubbing my eyes... but i was wrong! it was snow!

here are some pics of us enjoying the snow!

how it is snowing @ 34 degrees beats me... but just enjoy the neat-looking weather widget pic.



















































































"what is this white stuff!?!?!"

he was actually having fun... just a weird moment picture.






























i'm melting!

a friend of ours left his hat here. he didn't call us to see if we had it for several days. once he did we decided to have a little fun and tell him that we hadn't seen it.

then i put a white sheet over my head and put the hat on. i did this so that i could import the pictures into photoshop and delete my face easily.



















unfortunately my head was tilted down some so it didn't meet my perfectionist standards. they could have looked so much better and not all squished like. just a few hours ago i wanted to re-do it all but i had already sent him the photos and given him his hat back. oh well.

so after i did my photoshop work i placed the hat on other photos and emailed it to him saying, "hey maybe one of these suspicious characters knows where your hat is."

it was about 9:15 this morning... which is the time i am supposed to get landon to daycare... and i was getting into the elevator to do just that. i hit the ground floor button in the elevator and grabbed my cell phone to see what time it was...

now wait... pause my story and let me explain something about the elevators here. they are about a quarter of the size of an american elevator (if that big) and they don't all necessarily have doors. you get in, optionally close the doors, if there are any, and hit the button to the choose the floor... at that point the elevator proceeds to move and the wall which would be on the other side of the doors in the USA elevators is right in front of your face and you get to watch it go on by.

okay so back to my story... so like i said, i was grabbing my cell phone and as the phone was exiting my pocket it slipped out of my hands. it hit the ground near the wall, bounced and i froze in terror... and then the worst possible thing happened... it slipped through the one inch gap between the elevator and the moving wall. now we live on the 6th floor and i had only just passed the 5th floor... and my phone proceeded to plummet 5 floors probably bouncing off the crusty cement walls along the way to what i imagined to be it's dirty and dusty demise (because the shaft bottom is full of dirt, rocks, used car tires and other misc. trash).

i didn't have time to start looking for it in the elevator shaft right away because landon... remember landon and his daycare that has already started? ... well as you well know, he was late for daycare. so i got him to daycare and the whole way there and back i was imagining my cell phone in all its glorious splendor in what i figured was about 30+ glorious parts.

well once i got back i got my building manager to help me jerry rig the door (this is a door that stays put on each floor to keep people from falling in the shaft) to open while the elevator wasn't there. so once he did he jumped on down into the murky depths below and after a minute handed me a dusty but completely intact and functional cell phone! it had been cushioned by the ample amounts of trash.

i was astounded and continued to thank him for helping me and more importantly thanking the Lord for my cell phone surviving its astronomical fall.

this story kinda reminded me of those people you hear about that went skydiving and whose parachutes didn't open... they fall all the way to the bottom, hit the earth, bounce something like 50 feet in the air and then live to tell the tale! it's exactly like that... except that my cell phone was only like 6 months old and those people are usually in their 20-30s.

the end.

the captain of the boat wanted to hold josiah so we let him of course.











Landon would run away from Josiah and then charge him to get him to laugh. Josiah was laughing so hard! It was hilarious!

I just got back the pics from our underwater cameras. Here are the shots from the trip to the sea we took. There is a web album up for them... click on embedded album at the bottom of the post... but here are just a few to wet your appetite.

Coral & Fishies

Hey everyone... technology rules!!! I love being able to put these videos up here for you to watch. I will eventually make a link on the right to watch videos.

Anyways... many of you may recall a post i did on fetlah (click on that word to see the full post... or read the following excerpt...)

fetlah... so what it is is this: the guy takes a really long piece of dental floss type string and puts one end in between his teeth and then makes an intricate web of strings around his fingers. he then pulls it tight using his teeth so that all the little web holes close up... around the excess hairs on your face which rips them out with excrutiating force. my eyes were watering and on the verge of forming tears... especially when he did it around my ears. OUCH! after the fetlah and him trimming my nose hair, i feel all groomed up!

Well now that I have the ability to post video... I see it as my duty to bring you a video of my brother receiving the special treat of fetlah! Enjoy... you'll know that I did by how much I laughed in the background while filming it! haha...