The huge snow drift in the backyard has to be good for something!

My wife spent most of the day in 4 degree weather taking down my Christmas decorations while I was with 2 of the kids at dance. When we came home, she built a tunnel into the 5 foot snow bank in the back yard. We took similar pictures in 2007 and here are the comparisons. Wow the kids have grown up!

Pictures from Christmas...part 2

Pictures from Christmas

Sorry for the delay in posting these photos! Here is a look into Christmas morning at the Becker household.

Gifts from Gma and Gpa.

Piano Recital at mall today

After 8 basketball games yesterday, the Beckers were up for a change of pace. The kids did great! They each played two Christmas songs and they all sounded great!

2 snow days and one more yet tomorrow!

I made the kids stand for pictures before I would let them in the house yesterday. By this time they were very cold and really didn't want to have their pictures taken.

Today was the second day off. The kids decided to sled and snowboard down the driveway and down the snowdrifts in the backyard.

If it wasn't for our neighbor behind us, we still would be stuck in our house. You can see our street. He has his own snow removal business and found out by chance that we still hadn't been plowed out. The snow was up to my knees at some points on our street. He made a path so we can get out. ConAgra was closed today, so no issue today, but Kori would have had a problem tomorrow if not for our neighbor. Here is a picture of our street from our driveway. You can see it is only wide enough for a car to pass. Hopefully the city will plow everything out tonight or tomorrow.

Thanksgiving photos

Great picture with Nana and the kids!

Kedzie and I are "zipping" along!

Here are a couple of pictures of Kedzie and I doing the zip line during our church retreat this last weekend. I took Kedzie's picture and she took mine. Way to go Kedz!

Photos from the weekend

Logan's first basketball game this season. He loves to play defense, but he doesn't like to shoot much.

We took some great pictures in the yard Saturday afternoon. Couldn't believe the great weather and the temperament of the dog.

Crazy Hair Day at School

The boys really wanted to do it up right for crazy hair day at school! Austyn is like a Dr. Jekyll

and Mr. Hyde. Kori straightened half his hair last night and the other half he left curly. Logan

wanted to have three mohawks in his hair!

A.J.'s first basketball game last night

Here he is in his warm up uniform before the game.

Here he is doing the jump at the start of the game. He got possession for his team.

Here he is scoring the first points of the season for his team.

Here he is shooting a free throw after getting fouled on a made basket. Free throw didn't look so hot, but we loved the effort.

AJ was a rebounding machine...well not really, but here is one of his boards.