These are the icicles on our post office- Sam thinks they are the greatest!

The bike right outside our apartment- it's been buried for weeks.

Shane would know where this is- i don't. Besides the Tetons being on the left. It's just north of the airport, where Shane works. Sam loves to go exploring, and kicking the snow drifts, which are often taller than he is!

A big horned sheep in the Elk Reserve. We saw these along with elk and buffalo the other day.

Shane and Sam with Cindy-Lou-Who.

Shane is in Salt Lake on a business trip (how weird is that to say since a month ago we lived there.) and was sposed to be home today but the flight was cancelled and Sam is desperate for his daddy. So by late afternoon there was lots of whining at my house and I said "snowsuits ON, we're playing outside!" to at least shock the whining away with sub zero weather. (Actually I think it was more like a warm 8 degrees or something tropical like that.) I thought they were cute with their little red noses! And yes, it did fix the whining. For about 25 minutes. We take what we can get around here.

I love that you can see Sam's reflection in the window. And I didn't even PLAN it! I'm sure he was about to bomb Katie with a snowball.

So I haven't blogged since August!! It's been unusually busy for us. So here's a few catch ups:
In September we went to Shane's mom's family farm in Idaho; this is Katie and her cousin "playing dominoes" at the farm. We always have a great time there.

My mom came from Indiana to Utah for a good chunk of October and November- here's Katie and Sam with Grandma Sharon.

My sisters Lorren and Debbie came for a long weekend while mom was visiting in October.

Me and Katie chillin'. Sam never was a binky addict, so Katie has taken over his old binkies which is good since we seem to lose about 4 a day! That pink and red sweater used to be mine.

You'll notice Sam wears this Superman shirt and cape in every picture... He's decided to go for the Guinness World Record of same shirt worn everyday indefinitely. Of course he was Superman for Halloween (same as last year...) and you should see when he puts on his fake glasses and tie and transforms into Clark Kent! It's quite a dramatic event.

Katie was a super happy ghost for Halloween.


On December 8th we moved to Jackson, Wyoming for Shane's work with Skywest Airline. These are the Tetons behind Sam, picture taken early November before the snow dumped down! We love Jackson- it's a skiing town with lots of tourists, therefore lots of fun stuff to do, and just an hour south of Yellowstone and an hour north of Star Valley, where Shane's Dad grew up. The scenery is breathtaking.

Shane took this picture the other morning when it was -12 degrees, looking at the mountains from the airport where he works every day- he's in heaven. (Even more so I bet when it warms up a bit!) The population of Jackson is around 8,500. It's fun for me to live in a small town again- even smaller than Vincennes!


Sam and Katie on Christmas in our apartment-

One of our favorite things to do here so far (and definitely Sam's favorite) is go to the rec. center swimming pool- they have an awesome kid section with water slides and heated water so it's fun to be all warm and toasty inside and look out the windows at the snow falling!

Here's about a minute long video of Sam going down the littler water slide by himself, and then panning to Katie with my sister-in-law Season.

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to me today!