The Zhao Family

I am quickly putting up another post because of such fun we had behind the school walking from our house. Since we couldn't go anywhere in our cars for the last three days, we went sledding and did the boys have fun!



Clayton is ready to go!



What does he do the first thing? Of course!! get his brother to carry him!


Then he likes to share the courtesy too because we went with our cousins to go sledding!


En route, Clayton picked up a couple things here and there...


Nature lover...haha


All that snow is actually on top of the driveway behind the school where the boys would go biking.






Here we go up the hill and ready to have some fun!

It's a little slippery so Clayton got a little boost.


I made it!


Brennan and Emilee just had a blast watching Clayton and his aunt crashing down the hill.


But on the first run, Clayton successfully sled down without crashing.


On the second run, it was not so successful.


The two of them had a blast coming downhill...


Another crash with Brennan. He's being a good sport about it.




Look at the small pictures..don't mess with the snowball.


The four cousins..how much they've grown...


Trying really hard to get a family photo...this is the best unedited photo.


Cayleigh finally woke up to join us but we're pretty much done with sledding for the day.


She did manage to get a sled ride which made her day!

So yet again we've made history! We got enough snow to last us a whole Winter! and of course we're going to get more snow this coming week! I love this time of the year! It's cold but its so much fun b/c the family gets to be together and enjoy what nature has for us.



This was snow that fell on this past Tuesday. Mom and the boys decide to build a little snow man.


To prepare ourselves physically to have enough energy to go out shoveling, we ate a hearty breakfast of pancakes, sausages, hot dogs, and eggs with hot chocolate!! So delicious!


This is our backyard scenario. As you might remember the coffin look alike shape is the boys sandbox that has just piled up.


Anyone for basketball? or snowbasketball?


This photo is from our neighbor down the street. That was in the AM of 2010/02/06. So you might add a few more inches to it and it's pretty accurate.


My whole neighborhood. The car on the left is my Accord. As you can imagine that it's pretty crazy hey? but one great thing is our HOA (Home Owner's Association - it's a monthly payment for neighborhood maintenance fee like removing trash, mowing the lawn and snow shoveling.) The two hours it took me to clean off both cars, the spaces in between and our walkway, the HOA snow truck shoveled our street four times!! It was wonderful that he kept shoveling and cleaning the road!


See who's happy to be out?


While Cayleigh's asleep, she's missing all the fun.


Abbey helped out quite a bit, except that her whole body's sore later on in the afternoon.



Brennan does a great job of helping as well.


Even Clayton loves the snow!! It's so deep that it's come up to his hip!


"I've fallen and I can't get up"


Clayton's not even touching the ground and he can't reach the top of the pile from our walkway to the side. It's that much snow.


While at home, Cayleigh's learned to suck whole milk from straws now! Proud of her!


Brennan's rests at home reading to Cayleigh.


Clayton's a fanatic about cars and lining them up while Brennan just learned other ways to play Jenga- Dominos!!


He's successful run of dominoes on the table. What a proud guy! Great job both of you!