Jeppsen's

Jeppsen's

Friday, December 26, 2008

Winter Wonderland


We had a great trip home. It was definitely a winter wonderland. Coeur d'Alene received 35 in of snow in 35 hours. WE spent a lot of time outside playing in it. Jappy spent most of his time out plowing the drive way and making a path out in the field to pull the kids on the sled behind the 4
Wheeler.
This is Jap on the tractor pushing snow from the driveway


On the sled with Brooklyn and Kai and Duncan running along side us.


My dad's Dodge truck is under all that snow


Kai loves to wrestle with Uncle Jappy Jappy and the babies watching football


It was fun to see Ronny's family. It's been almost a year since we've seen them, the girls enjoyed playing with Kai. We also saw Bob and Cathy and Lilo. The girls and Jay were well loved. They even got to see Aunt Karla and Uncle Tim. It was really good to see them and catch up. We had a chance to catch up with all of our family and with a lot of our friends. There's NEVER enough time to see and do all we want when we're home. And always leaving wishing we did more but we enjoyed our visit and was glad to get home. The girls cried all the way to Costco. They didn't want to leave Nana's, It was so sad to hear them cry like that.


Uncle Bob and Lilo and Jay Aunt Karla
We drove 12 hours in a snow storm. (usually takes us 8.5 hrs)The worst storm We've ever seen. Most of the time we couldn't see the lines of the road or the semis in front of us. I'm grateful that Jappy is a calm and patient person I couldn't have kept my cool like he did. I'm so glad he got us home safely. We've been talking about getting a new car and this lil trip sealed the deal that we need 4W Drive.


Kai and Mady Jay (in blue) and Jaiden

Jaiden on the right is Ronny and Monika's miracle baby. He celebrated his 1st Birthday while we were there. Jay and him are only a 1/4 lb different in weight. Technically Jaiden is only 8 mos.
We're so happy he is doing so well.
We came home to a cold house. I thought it was Strange because I purposely didn't change the thermostat before we left because I didn't want to come home to a cold house. Come to find out we had an issue with a condensation hose that wouldn't let the house heat over 55 Degrees.

Oh my it was cold in the house. We moved everyone to our room and left the space heater on all night. Thank goodness!! Pocatello received some snow also. The Furnace repair man called when he was on his way and said he couldn't make it up the hill to our house, because there was so much snow. Jappy took the Durango down and picked him up, and then ran him around for parts. His company van wasn't handling the snow well at all.

By 2:30 the furnace was fixed and we we're starting to thaw out.

1 comments:

Cathy and Bob Sampert said...

It was so great to see you guys!!! We loved that we could play with you guys for a bit and enjoy Christmas together!! We were especially so glad to meet baby jay!! He is another beautiful Jeppsen baby!! Maybe next year we can all come to you or jared--I know your parents felt bad that jared was all alone this year. You'll have to come visit us sometime this year! Maybe we could go to the great wolf lodge--they have an indoor waterpark that looks awesome!!!