Author: Pete Codella II

Eliana looses first top tooth 0

Eliana looses first top tooth

Last week Eliana was so determined to get her top front tooth out that she spent about half an hour twisting, pulling and prodding it. Finally, it succumbed and she now has a gaping...

Bad, Bad Countrywide 0

Bad, Bad Countrywide

This identity theft thing has to be the most frustrating thing I’ve experienced in recent years. I must say I’m quite bitter towards Countrywide’s rogue employee and the person who’s using my personal information...

We’re officially unpacked 0

We’re officially unpacked

I spent the day today working in the garage. I unpacked boxes and organized my tools and stored all the other stuff we’re packing around with us. I remember the days when I could...

Video of sledding adventure 1

Video of sledding adventure

As promised in my previous sledding post, here’s a short video of our sledding experience with the kids a couple of days after Christmas. We had a blast! We gave Vickey a hard time...

What to do if you’re a victim of identity theft 0

What to do if you’re a victim of identity theft

Back in September I blogged about a letter we received from Countrywide saying one of their employees sold our personal information, which they inferred, may lead to identity theft. They graciously arranged for credit...

Sledding on Dec. 27 0

Sledding on Dec. 27

For Christmas we got sleds and snow gear. The kids were begging us to try everything out on Christmas but it just didn’t happen until Saturday (poor weather conditions). We all had a blast!...

The cousin’s sleepover 0

The cousin’s sleepover

Vickey’s sister, Rachel, spearheaded a cousins sleepover at the Snow’s on Sunday evening. Eliana and Dominic were thrilled to participate. They ate, played games, decorated the kitchen window, watched a movie and didn’t get...

Puzzled 0

Puzzled

A Christmas and New Year’s family tradition for us is to find the most difficult, obnoxious, many-thousand-piece puzzle and see how quickly we can put it together. This year’s puzzle, the Twelve Days of...

Walkin in a winter wonderland 0

Walkin in a winter wonderland

Living up on the bench in Bountiful is beautiful. We feel like we live in the mountains. But since we actually ‘live in the mountains,’ we’re blessed with plenty of snow. I’ve decided that...