Christmas with the Swensens

Chari, Brian and family arrived on Sunday, December 21st early in the morning. Our church had been cancelled for that day (due to high wind chill and blowing snow) so we just spent a very quiet day while they unwound after a long drive through some miserable weather.

Whitney helping with snow shoveling


After Christmas the kids went sledding/snowboarding at our neighborhood park. They had a great time but it was very cold. We were at around zero degrees with the wind chill making it about 16 below zero.

Christmas Morning


Wisconsin Winter Temperatures


Hillary learning to snowboard


Carter Snowboarding


We visited the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, went bowling at Knuckleheads in Wisconsin Dells and went to a two-hour bounce session in Madison at Bounce U.

The Swensens left to start their trek back home on New Year's Day. We miss them already. It's very, very quiet around here now. We're not sure what to do with ourselves.

Amish Shopping

Today we finally made it to the Amish store. Chari and I tried to go shopping up at the Amish store last Friday. It was so foggy we turned around after about a mile, went shopping at the grocery store and drove home. Today we were late getting to the bakery so we missed the fresh donuts this time. Not that we needed anymore junk food but we love their hot out of the fryer donuts. We were able to get a picture of the Amish buggies on the road.