Category: Family

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...

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...

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...

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!...

Tonight we made some traditional Italian Christmas cookies. Each year we bake cookies — recipes passed down from my dad’s parents — sometime around mid-December, or at least before Christmas day, and sometimes more...

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...

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...

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...

It’s official. It’s winter in northern Utah. It started snowing about 8 this morning and it’s still going. Here’s the view from my north-facing office window. Now we’ll have to get serious about how...

Here’s a photo montage of some of the holiday magic a la The Codella Cottage. Enjoy the holiday season everyone!