A visit from Pam, Jake, Alex and Dean

Last weekend the Hester clan came up to visit. We didn't do all that much but it was still fun to visit. Micah and Dean get along well. I can't wait for them to be able to play with each other more as Dean gets older.

These are some pictures from the weekend.











The night before they left Micah was so tired. He wanted to go to bed with his glow sticks and I could just see his hand holding them when I went in to check on him.

Hanging Out and Aunt Kathy and Nica visit

Jeff, Ashley and Micah have fun posing for some pics. These are some of the first pictures on my new camera. It was low light in the room and it did better than my Canon usually does. Yeah.



We hang out.



I was trying out some of the modes on my new camera.



Aunt Kathy is still in town. I think we are going to go see her again today.

New Camera

I have been looking for a camera for a while and I finally decided on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. I like it a lot so far. It has better pixels, video and zoom than my Canon I have been using. Yeah.

To the snow we go

We had a great trip up to the snow this last weekend. The Mauldwin's went with us. We packed all seven of us into the van and set off to Arnold. Here is Micah trying on his stuff before we left.

When we got to Arnold it was clear and as soon as we were done unpacking it started to rain. We decided to drive up the mountain a bit and the rain stopped. We got out and though not quite dressed appropriately we still got in some snow play time till it started to get dark. We then went over to the snowshoe restaurant for dinner and hung out in the hotel playing until the kids were worn out.



The next day we got up and it was beautiful. It was a great day for the snow. There was new soft snow everywhere up on the mountain but it was sunny the whole day. Perfect!


We spent our time sledding, making a snow man, digging, snow ball fighting and eating snow. Here are some pictures I liked.