Snow and grandbabies

    This week has been over taken with snow plowing for Greg. He's been out at 5 A.M. every morning this week pushing snow and even had to work over 8 hours on Sunday. This winter can be done now! We have over 200% of our normal snow pack for this time of the year, so I think we're good to finish this winter with some milder weather and head into spring earlier then later, please!

    We did end our week with Beau and Harley. They came and hung out for several hours today and they're always fun!

Fun time with Papa.

    It's definitely been a simple week for the majority of us. Hopefully we see some sunshine in the coming days and get a little reprieve from all these snowstorms, for Greg's sake anyway.

Brock's 15!

    We celebrated Brock's 15th birthday this week. We also had some fun Sunday night with the grand-babies and neighbors.

Harley slowly crawled up on the counter when she saw the hot chocolate supplies coming out. She knew marshmallows would be coming soon.

Our frequent Sunday-night-visitor brought his amazing new R/C truck over and was pulling this other cute friend around on a sled. Pretty cool!

    Brock wanted Sushi for his birthday and Greg was happy to accompany him for lunch to a nearby asian restaurant with some pretty great sushi. (I was happy to go too, but I'm happy with their sweet and sour pork, no sushi for me.)

 

    Brock also wanted apple pie, instead of cake, and a NASA hat to go with his NASA coat. According to Carter, "Brock is going to the moon or Mars."

 

He's definitely developing a style all his own.

A couple of Brock's buddies stopped by to say hi.

And with some of Brock's birthday money he bought himself this cool Delorean.

    McClane got a haircut! He was finally tired of the mullet and is now going with a faux-hawk style.

Handsome boy/young man!

    We're still dealing with car issues. The Armada is still dying regularly when driven. Carter's 'new' car has several oil leaks and is going to require hundreds of dollars of repairs, and that's only if Greg and Isaac do the work. I do wonder when we'll be done with all these car headaches, but hey, I sure love my Avalon! And Carter is still without a job, so his car issues are a real 'treat', especially on top of the fact that he now has regular car payments! Welcome to the real world! And only 339 sleeps until Christmas!

New car and new treats.

    Our weekly trips to Fiiz are still a hit, especially with these two girls.

 

    Carter is officially the owner/car debt holder of this awesome Volkswagen Golf. He's also recently unemployed, so that's fun!

 

     And last week I think I mentioned something about the most delicious corndogs ever and here's a photo, which obviously doesn't do it much justice but it will at least remind me of our most recent find of a new favorite place to eat.

The 'epic' and also a deep fried milky way.

    And sometimes Charlie gets ahold of my phone and takes silly selfies.

 

    And, side-note, we picked up our Armada this week after the mechanic had it for a couple months and apparently drove it for countless hours but could never get it to die on him. He did replace a couple oxygen sensors that came up as bad, according to his computer, and $550 later we had it home all of 8 hours only to have it die on Greg! What is wrong with this dang car?! And why can't anyone figure it out!? It's a real conundrum! Either the mechanic is not being honest or his computer, that was plugged into the car every time he drove it, was somehow preventing it from doing its usual malfunctioning. Who knows, but for now, we're just going to keep it and drive it as we need it and pray we don't have an accident and continue to look into what the underlying problem might be.

New Year! Hello 2023, don't screw this up!

    We began our New Year celebration driving to Oakley to shoot off fireworks for our teenage neighbor. It was awesome and a real adventure. 

Andy knows how to do it!

We've got some of the best neighbors that ever existed.

 

    We ended our night playing 'cards against humanity' and drinking sparkling cider. 

    Brock was reunited with one of his best friends over the Christmas break and his mom treated them to a fun day in Park City and Midway eating fancy food and swimming in the crater.
 

Brock, Will and Mason 

The crater is so cool.

    And Carter finally found the car of his dreams and it's pretty awesome/cool! It should be all bought and finalized before the day is over.

2015 Volkswagen Golf 
It even has a sunroof!

    And last night I got suckered into helping with this crazy Disney puzzle.

Late night/fun night.

    So there's our first week of 2023, so far so good! (Not pictured are the best corn dogs I've ever had and neighbor trips to the ice cream parlor.)