Monday, December 22, 2008

Cold but Refreshing

Our time in ND is going great. It is nice to see Jake's family. We have done some baking, finished off a puzzle and spent a lot of time talking and laughing. Abigail is having a great time with her Auntie and Grandparents and they are just eating her up. Other than a semi-sleepless night yesterday she is doing great. For some reason Abigail was just having a tough time sleeping...all night long. But today she is very happy and I think she will do better tonight. Maybe it was the time change or different environment. She slept in our room last night and that made it much easier for me to take care of her!

I am sitting at the table next to a fireplace typing this. It is heavenly especially since it is still extremely cold outside. Jake is loving it. He tells me, "it's not that bad." However when it came time to go to church we decided that I would stay home with the girly and not take her out in the 20 below weather. I have not ventured out too much either and let me tell you, it's that bad!! It is also snowing right now. It's a light and slow falling and very beautiful. I would love to take Abigail out and put her in the snow but I don't think that is going to happen.

Lastly we ate steaks for dinner tonight. North Dakota steaks. Jake is really happy now. We plan on eating steaks at least two or three more times.




Jake and his Dad


I think it's great that her feet touch the bottom of this.

And Abigail is not sucking on it, yet.






Auntie Tanya Christine "full of bologna" Heringer (it's a family thing...)


I love this jump suit.


Grandpa Wayne

3 comments:

Rachel Olimb said...

I'm with you, Erin, 20 below IS that bad! Jake must really like that weather. I think I would have stayed home from church too :).

Noelle said...

Ha! I agree that 20 below IS that bad too...although I think about 50 above IS that bad too. :-)

Anonymous said...

I'm wondering if any of Erin's readers know what a block heater is.

A friend, from South Carolina, was up here one summer and asked if "that cord is supposed to be coming out of the front of this vehicle?" She still gets teased for that!

She now lives up here and I was SO proud of her when she said that getting up to around zero degrees (without the wind chill) was pretty good. Bravo, Carol!

It is a beautiful white Christmas up here. I'm very glad you kept Abigail in where it was warm and safe. She can do the snow thing in years to come.

Happy Christmas! It's going to get up to 16 degrees - should be good travel to my parents - 75 miles away.

Andrea