Winter Olympics

The kids have really enjoyed watching the Winter Olympics this year. Danny is having a difficult time deciding which sport he wants to start training for for the 2018 olympics. So in the mean time we have had our own Olympic events. Some traditional, some not so.
No awards are handed out at these games, as we are waiting for other countries to sign up so that we have some real competition.

Here are some exciting highlights of the some of the action!

Okay, so she really wasn't participating. I just thought it was a funny picture and I forgot to
include it in the last post.

This is the ice-swimming competition. He has tied Michael Phelps for the number of medals won in a single Olympics.

Here is the Ice-dancing pair of Kundrat & Kundrat.
A brother/sister team who got their start in the basement of their home.

Speed skating is a volatile sport. Here is the Gold medal hopeful from the U.S. as he
fell after catching his blade on a marker.


We go outside the arena now to bring you an exhibition sport this year. Snow-tennis. The judges haven't quite come up with a fair way to track the score.

As you can see, her form is excellent and she gets a tremendous spatter from the snowball she chose.

2 great shots from Danny in the men's event.


Tyler competed in the "cross-country skiing without skis" event.


Here are the men's and women's combined snow mountain jumping contest.
The last event was the downhill snowboard contest. Lacking the proper gear, our skier improvised with Duct tape.

Look at the concentration and look of determination.

And it was a GREAT RUN for the rooky! Wow have you ever seen anything like it?

And so this concludes the 2010 Olympiad.

Coming up next...... Well, I can't tell you as it is a surprise!

Winter

I have been very neglectful of this blog as of late. So many things have happened since the last post. Thanksgiving, Christmas a new Year, surgery with my Mom here to help out for the 6 week recovery time. In this time we have had so much snow and the kids have had a blast playing in it. Well, Kate and Dan love being in it. Tyler ends up with migraines if he stays out in brightness too much so he tends to stay inside.

Here are MANY photographs taken in the last month to make up for my bad blogginess.

The First wave of snow.

Ty ventured out for a short time.

Winter sunset.

Snow Cave that dad made after our driveway was plowed.

The next snow storm.

My blizzard expeditionists!

Striking out on her own.

Sharing provisions with his "best friend"

Does this remind anyone else of the Grinch cartoon?

Penguin style.

Love how blue the sky is in this.

A short.....

...rough, ride...

But apparently worth it!

Still to come......... the Olympics 2010. Held in Robesonia PA.

For Audrey

What a joy it was to photograph your beautiful family with the new addition of baby brother! Your girls are so sweet and so welcoming and I loved all the questions little Faith asked. It is wonderful to see how much they love their little brother.

Audrey, I so admire the way you love and treasure your little ones. You have always been such an example of that to me. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come to your home to take theses pictures. Asside from a few glitches from little Eli-(sorry Damien!) your family was so co-operative and easy to photograph!

I know you have seen some of these, but there are a few more mixed in now too!

One of my favorites so I put it first!

Can you believe this 10 day old baby lifting his head like this?!

And not just for a second either!

He held it up for quite a while so that I could get his picture! Guess he wanted to be sure I got his good side.

"There ain't no way you're taking this from me again lady!"
He did NOT want to loose that binky.

Precious baby.

Big sister watching from the stairs!

And beautiful biggest sister to end the post.

(Audrey. I am wondering if it is possible to take a bad picture of any of your children?)

Congratulations again. It is wonderful to see how God is building your precious family.