Guess who had a birthday

Ashden turned six today!

Love ya bud! You are the best!

Sweet little Mayce

I took Mayce to get her pictures taken today.

How am I ever going to decide on which ones to get? I love them all! She is such a little posy pants it makes me laugh!

I did decide on these ones. I love her.

Valentine's weekend

We had a great weekend sledding and playing in the snow

We did finally make a fire with all the wood we now have. What's a fire with out roasting marshmallows! (Does he ever smile normal? Love this kid! haha)

Daddy's Valentine treat.

Valentine waffles our little tradition.

Who couldn't love this face!

SNOW!

We have survived 3 snow storms, power outages, and 60 inches of snow. We have learned a lot about emergency preparedness. We were not prepared! It was quit the adventure though!
The first storm our power went out for 24 hours and we about froze to death. So before the second storm I sent Bennett to the store to buy wood for our fire place. What does he come home with? A saw. He tells me he is going to get "his own wood." He waited tell it got dark and proceeded out into the forest in a blizzard and cut down his own wood. He came home with a car full of wood, and feeling like a man, and rightfully so. Thanks honey for taking care of us!

Our friends power was out for 5 days. So they moved in and we had a BLAST! Julia and Joe were amazing with the kids! Thanks guys for being so AWESOME!

We went to the store to buy a sled and they laughed at us and said there were probably no sleds left in the area. We live in an ant colony! Cardboard worked pretty good!

It was a storm we will never forget! This city is not made for snow.

Happy

33 days- well worth it!

Playing Catch up

Over Christmas break we got record breaking snow. It was the biggest snow storm in like 20 years. Everything shut down. Thank goodness we had enough toilet paper because everything in the grocery store was gone the day before the for casted storm.

Mayce had never really played in the snow before so she was a little unsure. It was pretty cute!

Christmas this year was very memorable because we didn't get to go home. The kids had fun doing gingerbread houses Christmas Eve, and then we went to a beautiful Christmas program at the visitor center at the temple. I won't mention Bennett was on call that night so we spent the rest of the night at the hospital watching the Grinch in the waiting room, while Bennett took care of some one who had eye problems.

Opening there Christmas PJ's.

Christmas Eve. The traditional Oberg Picture

Christmas morning total craziness

Best dad in the world. Ashden made that hat for Bennett as one of his gifts! lol! I love it!

Thanksgiving Weekend

This year I convinced my friend Julia to run in a 10K turkey chase the morning of Thanksgiving. It was so much fun. It was one of the biggest races I have ran in. There was no parking so we didn't have any fans at the race to take any pictures, so this is after the race at the house. After the big race it was time to cook. We so over did it! We had some friends come to our house for Thanksgiving dinner this year. Bennett bought a smoker and smoked the turkey for ten hours. It was the best turkey ever. We had some good food and a lot of it! This picture is after we were done eating. This isn't even all the food either. Gotta love Thanksgiving left overs.

I think Joe got enough, although he didn't eat very much.

The kids did great. They ate about 2 bites, didn't want any turkey, thought the pie was gross, but did some serious playing!

I just love her!

I did have some serious shopping plans for Friday but they fell through as I laid so comfy in my bed, and couldn't bring myself to get out of it at 4 am. So instead we slept in, ate pie for breakfast, and headed to Williamsberg VA. What a awesomely weird place! It is an old town that is still holding true to a lot of traditions done in the 1600's. The college there is the second oldest university in the U.S. We walked around Williamsberg and it was so neat to see all the shops, buildings, and churches still there. It was so easy to imagine how difficult life must have been. There was a lot of reenactment and people dressed to fit the part. It was very interesting and humbling to think that area was the place of the first Thanksgiving. It was amazing to see what the people from Europe had to endure to get to such an unknown place and then try and settle there.

Bennett wanted to know if this gentleman was exciting me as he rode past so proudly on his valiant steed! hahaha!

This was at a Protestant church. We went in and they were showing us there oldest artifact. It was a baptismal font believed to be where Pocahontas was baptised.

Some times I wish these were still used when the kids were being naughty!

Couple hours like this ought to make them behave! haha!

They really do like each other.... here is proof! A rare moment lately

So the real reason we drove two hours to Williamsberg is because good old Weber State was playing the first round of the play offs at William and Mary. It's true Bennett jumped at the opportunity to go watch our alma mater play a good old game of football. To bad they played terrible and lost, but that's OK we still had a great time!