February

We cannot believe we are already almost to March! Where has this year gone! We have been on the go the past few weeks and it looks like it won't be slowing down.

John's group that he advises on campus held an event called "Winter Fest" a couple of weekends ago. They had a rail jam, chili cook-off and a band called "Cousins Affect" from Phoenix to play. It was really fun and exciting to see a lot of the Programs Council's work for the past semester come into turn. The rail jam was was really neat to see. They set it up in the middle of campus and had a competition for snowboarders and skiers. John works at a pretty awesome place. :)

Conni had winter break this past week. Every six weeks the school takes one week off. We are not quite sure how they attain all the days needed to go to school, but they manage and we don't mind all the breaks either. :) She helped teach Character Camp during the week. CC is an all day kids camp, ages 4-10, and the kids learn a different character trait a day. They talk about the trait of the day and play games and do crafts to try and make the trait tangible for the kids. Our Church, Oh-Be-Joyful, funds the camp but it is not a religious camp. We don't talk about Jesus to the kids but we are teaching them Jesus through His traits. Our pastor likes to say that we are, "teaching them Jesus and they don't even know it." Our prayer is that someday they will know Him.

That was pretty much our last month. We are looking forward to March. We will be going to Maine for John's work, Conni gets to tag along. :) We are hoping to be able to go camping on the other side of these mountains near Crawford and Hotchkiss- Spring comes early there- as we still have a couple more months of winter left...

Praying that all is going well in your world,

The Mahoney's

Not very good bloggers...

Once again, we fail to be consistent "bloggers." Hopefully, this new year we will get better....

John is still enjoying his job at Western State and Conni is still getting entertained with her job as a lunch lady at the community school in CB.

We have hit an arctic cold snap the past week. The lowest so far has been -56. Last night was -39 but today it actually got up to 14 above zero. :/ Brr.

For Christmas we drove back to Montana to surprise Conni's family. We couldn't have done it without the help of Gene and Conni's cousin, Robbie. Gene built a box for us to jump out in and Robbie picked us up with his pick-up and brought us to Walt and LaRae's house. It was pretty entertaining to jump out of the box and surprise everyone for Christmas. What a great Christmas gift, if we do say so ourselves. ;)

We then met up with Walt's family in Hawaii. What a wonderful time it was seeing the family. We wish everyone could have made it.

That is about it for us. We hope that everyone had a great holiday season and is doing well this winter.

Hopefully, we will update this more often....we will see.

Mahoney's