Friends and SNOW!!

January 2014

Brandie holding Karl.

 Our new year started off pretty good with some visits from some good friends. We had my friend Brandie Beadle and her husband, Brian, over for dinner with the sister missionaries.

Sister Quist and Sister Ogden, the best missionaries in the field, aside from one. 

 We then had the sister missionaries over again because we love them so much!! Jared especially go nuts whenever they come over.

Jared making a popsicle stick puzzle.

 We got to have a play/baby-sitting day with the Kelley's kids. We made homemade popsicle stick puzzles and raced cars and ran around outside and watched a few cartoons. I managed to get 2/3 of them to take naps.

Eeva, Jared, Ryan, Nathan, and I making puzzles.

 We had a few days that were kind of icy, which I guess is a big deal here in Houston. Ryan stayed home one of those first days that it was icy because they were going on and on about it on the news and telling people to stay home. But, Ryan and I soon learned that they kind of go nuts here about any snow or ice what-so-ever, so he went in from now on after that. There was only one day that we actually saw snow that stuck. That day Ryan went out the door to leave for work, but then came right back in to bring me a handful of snow. It was all gone by 10:00am, but it was fun to see it for one morning.

Ice outside our kitchen window.