Sunday, January 3, 2010

December 26

December 26th we left Joel's parents' house, made a little side trip to Wal-Mart for some after-Christmas sales, and then headed to my grandparents' house for an extended family celebration. It was a slow trip with snowy and icy roads, but we made it.

Caleb playing cars with second-cousin Sam.
I guess I wasn't so great at taking pictures there. We had a nice meal and played the traditional dice game - where our family usually fights to win the roll of duct tape!

We left early because we knew there would be lots of snow to remove at home since we hadn't been there for more than three days of the big storm. We arrived to this! Hey, at least the house looked pretty! Joel parked on the street, jumped the almost 4-ft snowbank, and started up the snowblower. I was honestly a little afraid that the blower would break from working so hard, but it was the Little Engine that Could!

If you look really closely here, you can see the orange top of the snowblower and Joel's head straight above it.

Almost through!!!

Amazing! Caleb and I had a nice path to get into the house. Meanwhile Joel spent lots of time clearing the rest of the driveway. It looks like hard grueling work to me, but he loves doing it! The whole drive home he kept saying, "Oh I hope nobody plowed our driveway for us!"

3 comments:

ella peterson said...

what a nut to love that! If he wants he can make the trip down to my place and help me out :P I need to save up and get a snowblower... 3.5 hours to clear out ONE day of snow... ugh. so glad that you guys enjoyed your Christmas with your family!

Beth said...

Oh, guys are so funny about their toys.

Anonymous said...

I love the new blog look!!! WOW Caleb is getting so big.