Christmas in North Dakota

This is what Christmas was like this year with the folks up in North Dakota. We got a record setting 10+ inches on Christmas Day.

You can see Allen's car peeking out above.

The bump on the right is Allen's car and the bump on the left is my car.

This is the driveway to our neighbor's house.

Here's the road, complete with a stranded car.

Another neighbor's house

Here's the Heit's house from the road with all five cars parked in the driveway. Can you spot them all?

Facing the road, it doesn't look like there's much snow on our car, but the previous picture would dispel that notion.

Allen got lots of snow too, while Randy got practically nothing.

The snow piled up on the side of the house, so it was hard to see outside.

Some of the drifts in the backyard, but to the left are even higher drifts.

It was hard to get in and out of the house.

An inside view.

The whole door.

Merry Christmas! We won't be going anywhere for a while.

Fun in the Park, Trees and other Playtime Activities

Welsey went to the park last week when the weather was nice. He got to do many fun things all on his own, like swing and go down the slide:

He didn't like the slide so much and threw up shortly after swinging. Exciting! Following tradition, we put up the Christmas tree during the weekend after Thanksgiving. Wesley was such a good helper. He ended up with sparkles all over his hands and face and clothes. We couldn't help but wonder if he was a vampire.

So far he's only broken the reindeer made out of popsicle sticks as seen in the second picture.

Wesley's favorite activity in the world is listening to music, but only if it involves electric guitars, especially because music means colors! Every time he hears a song, he immediately tries to look at the TV to find the colors, even if it's coming from a computer. Everyday he wants to walk over and turn on the PS3 so he can pick a song. Then he gets all excited and dances and squeals when the swirling colors appear. We finally got around to filming him in his show of intelligence even though the volume is a bit low. He also didn't squeal in delight this time since he's camera shy.


Of course, just listening to music wasn't good enough. He wanted to play along to it as well. He knows there's a correlation to plastic instruments and music and colors appearing on the TV, so he had to try it out himself.

All tuckered out after a long day.