I'm afraid there's nothing to exciting to write about. It's now March and unfortunately we are still getting snow and cold weather. I'm sure spring is right around the corner?!?! It seems like we have been hibernating for the past few months, but this weekend we actually ventured out.

Saturday morning Glenn and I were able to go running together (which never happens). I've been running pretty hard for the last couple of months on the treadmill at home, so it was the first time I've ran on the track in quite some time. The track definitely takes a lot more out of you. We were trying for 10 miles but only made it to 7. It felt good though. Then we spent the rest of the day just playing. We went to Apple Holler for a late breakfast and then back over to the gym where they were having a kids expo and played around for a while, then went swimming. It was fun to get out of the house with the kids and they loved every minute of it.

At the expo they were taking pictures of all the kids so they could be on the cover of a magazine, just for fun of course.

This video is from last month but I was having trouble getting on the blog and for some reason it actually worked today.

In the last six years we have never had a winter quite like this one. One day it will be 60 degrees and the next -35 with wind chill, tornadoes and huge snow snow storms (which is what we just experienced). We ended up with somewhere between 13 and 16 inches of snow. Shoveling to say the least was torture. We shoveled 4 times in one day and each time it was really tiring. Glenn had been busy shoveling drive ways all day so I desided to be nice and shovel it one last time before bed right after all the snow was done falling. Well after 45 minutes of back breaking work I had cleared the entire driveway and went to bed. The next moring when I woke up I looked out the front window to see that the snowplow had come by late last night and burried our driveway in about 3 feet of snow...ahhh!!! Here are some pictures of Isaac and Bayley enjoying all the snow.

What do you do in the wintertime when the high for the day is 3 degrees, you ask? Well...

1. We take lots of baths just for fun.

2. We spend a half hour getting bundled up just to go outside for 5 minutes!

3. We go to giant indoor water parks (the kids favorite thing to do), but make sure to dry off good before we put our snow boots and coats back on.

4. Camp out in the family room.

5. We've considered hibernating.

If you have any other good ideas of stuff to do we are quickly running out of ideas. I think the next thing we are going to do is make a giant chain to count down the days till summer.

We just experience our first tornado. At 3:30 this afternoon on the way to Bayley's ice skating lessons the emergency siren sounded, we hurried to the gym and were sent to the hockey players locker rooms. We stayed there for almost an hour until it was safe to come home. We later found out that 2 tornadoes hit Kenosha, one was less than 6 miles from our house. It was right by Glenn's office (less than 1 mile). It touched down right after he closed down the office and sent everyone home. Luckily we were far enough away that we didn't have any damage. It was pretty crazy though. The siren continued to go off for the next couple of hours and every time we went down to the basement Isaac would say "The tomato is coming, the tomato is coming, we got to hurry." Funny stuff.

Despite two sickies (Bayley and Noah), we had a wonderful Christmas and are still enjoying the last week of Christmas break. It has been so nice not having to run around and the kids have had a lot of fun playing with their new toys and have been best buddies lately. Shelly and Billy came here for Christmas and it was a lot of fun seeing them, time just went by too quickly.