Long Distance

Isn't technology great! With Grandpa Saunders in Kurdistan and Grandma and Grandpa Kraczek on an LDS mission to Johannesburg South Africa it is so nice to be able to stay connected. Every week or so we get online for a video chat and catch up on each other's news.  I know that my kids will grow up thinking nothing of it but to me it is a modern miracle.

Happy Birthday Daddy

We had a very nice relaxing birthday for daddy this year. Daddy has been working very hard lately, so what he wanted most for his birthday was just to relax with his family and enjoy the day. Evan made sure Daddy felt loved by singing him happy birthday songs all day and making sure that there was a birthday cake with candles.

Every year mommy makes him a special birthday cake of his choosing. This year Daddy chose chocolate and cherries for the main ingredients, so we had a chocolate cherry upside down cake of Mommy's own invention.  It turned out a little gooey, but that did not detract from the yumminess.

In search of Snow

Evan has been dying to go sledding ever since Mommy bought him a sled this winter. Mommy even found Evan asleep in his sled one morning when the sled had been left in his room overnight.

Being from Utah, I have always taken for granted that there will be snow in the winter. So, after many promised snow stoms that turned out to be duds, the Kraczek family went out in search of some snow to sled in.

We headed up to a ski resort in Pennsylvania where we knew it would be "snowing" and got Evan a ticket for the kiddie tubing hill.

Evan was so excited that Daddy had found him a mountain for sledding. Mommy has as certain bias about what can be constituted a mountain, but we won't go into that. Never the less, the kiddie tubbing hill did not disappoint. Paul dragged Evan up the hill and pushed him down it for about an hour and a half till we were all sledded out and ready to go home.

It was a great day and hopefully next year we won't have to go so far to find some snow.