Another New Adventure

Well, another new adventure has begun for our family.  Chad's job with Schreiber Foods has moved our family north to West Bend, Wisconsin.  It's a much different climate than what we are used to.  We have seen snow already twice, with one of them being on Halloween.  The temperatures this week are starting to drop into the twenties for the highs and its still only November.  It's crazy!  The kids are starting their fourth week in school and are having a lot of fun!  Addison is a 2nd grader at Fair Park Elementary and her sweet teacher's name is Mrs. Nannetti.  Rhyder is in his last year of preschool and also has a sweet teacher, Mrs. Gross.  They definitely miss their schools in Missouri and all of their friends, but they are adjusting well.  We are making our way around the town and are loving that we have way more conveniences than we had in Clinton.  We've found the grocery stores, the home improvement stores, and KOHLS and HOBBY LOBBY!  We've experienced our first hockey game and saw the West Bend Bombers.  I think it will be something that we will continue to do since the kids enjoyed it. The kids are starting a learn to skate class starting the end of November and Addison is starting her new gymnastics class at the YMCA tomorrow.  We're enjoying everything so far now that we are not surrounded by moving boxes.  Who knows what the future holds for our family, but we'll enjoy everything we can while we're here because we won't be here forever!

Taking a hay ride at the pumpkin patch

The Milwaukee Bucks mascot, Bango on the hay ride

The snow on the ground on Halloween

The West Bend Bombers

Playing at the park

The leaves changing colors in front of our house

Trick or treating in our neighborhood

First Snow!

We had an unexpected snow in the valley in October.  If I didn't live here, I would have thought it was a joke, but I woke up that morning not expecting to see snow.  However, it did snow and it was beautiful, even though I had to shovel snow at 6:30 in the morning.  Here is some pictures of the Wellsville Mountains to the west of us. 

Sledding at The Sinks in Utah

Snow Ice Cream

So when it started snowing at our house, one of the first things I thought about was making snow ice cream.  When it snowed in Texas, we tried to scrape up enough snow to even make ice cream.  We had no problem finding enough snow here.  It turned out so good and we will be able to make it all winter long.  We asked around and apparently the locals don't know what snow ice cream is.  I think we'll have to introduce them to it. 

SNOW!

Since we moved to Utah a little over a month ago, we have seen snow, but only in the mountains.  Well, Friday night, it snowed about 2 inches.  It was so beautiful and the kids were so excited!  On Saturday morning when we got up, the kids were ready to go outside and play in it.  We got them dressed in their snow suits, snow boots, coats, and hats and they were off to play.  I think their favorite part was eating the snow and throwing snowballs at daddy!

We have many more months of snow, so we are going to have to start pacing ourselves.  We did have a lot of fun playing in the SNOW!  Wish you were here to see it with us.