January 20 - 26, 2008

This was and interesting week for the Belnaps. I took a week of vacation so that we could get the kitchen floor done. The first thing that happened as our other blogs say is we got sick. It started with Grant and then me and then Kent, and then Jen. Needless to say, we never got to the floor till Thursday. With the help of my wonder wife Jen, we got it done by 9pm Friday night so we would be ready to go to the McCall Winter Festival with some friends on Saturday. We got up at 6:30pm on Saturday so Jen could go to the store and I could start gathering things for our day of fun in McCall and the snow. The boys ended up waking up earlier than we wanted and adding to the fun or packing. We were still ready and at the Church to meet our friends as planned at 9:02am. We thought we would be the last ones there, but we were the first. Only one other couple showed up a little while later and we finally left at 9:30am after finding out the others had backed out. So we took of for McMcall 120 miles away. You would think 120 miles could be done in about two hours, but it took us a lot longer do to the headlight being out on our Honda and having to stop to fix that. The other thing was getting stuck behind slow drives going up the mountians. I don't think we went faster than 40 most of the way. It didn't help that it looked like a train of cars for miles. Well, we got there and we were excite! We bundled up the kids and ourselves, put them on the sled to drag them the mile to the actual place of the festival. Half way there, our kids started screaming and wouldn't stop. So, we ended up seeing about four carvings, and walking 2 miles. It was six hours of driving for one hour of hell. We will not be doing that again without a babysitter. Anyway, enjoy the pictures.