2015 Frosty Family Winter Post

Well its been a while... and you are desperate of news from the north.. Lets start with the most common of my updates.. our weather...
Its been snowy/cold and then snow /cold. .. the winter of our discontent . and the ides of march are now  upon us...
Having said that I'll just say we've survived and thrived.. (hows that for cliché )
Since our last post we've enjoyed a great holiday season... We kicked it off with doing a special Tree cutting event at the Russel farm.. This involved a sleigh ride,, cutting a tree and then hot chocolate in a mountain cabin.. What a fun time!!

The next  highlight was having our first holiday cocktail party with over 40 guests.. It was the place to be in Hinesburg..as our party included a guess singer and a pianist who helped us sing Christmas carols for a while. we partied till mid night at least !!!.

. Christmas we where joined by Ted and Jackie (grannie and pappy) for a week xmas festivities. Aimee's brother Adam and cousin Gisele also came for a bit .. . This year it was warm  as our early season snow melted most away.. never fear in January it came back  and then some.. the kids as usual enjoyed the presents and everything Santa had to offer

Our new years this year we took the kids to first night and watched some great dancing and fireworks followed by chinesefood. We did not make it till midnight but our kids did !!



Following new years we renewed our Downtown Abbey love and went to the premiere of season 5 with our friends the goldsmiths.. Jim and I dawned matching bow ties and we enjoyed the newest season and dancing with the party..

 January  was spent watching  snow flakes,skiing   ( I got new skis this year after 12 years !!),Pinewood derby (henry's car black dragon made it to the next round and had the best tires !!)  and the Patriots march to their super bowl victory... What a game.. Henry and I had a fantasy team together and enjoyed watching our team and the patriots win. Henry however has now become addicted to madam mobile..and has been driving me crazy with question on players on ANY team in the nfl..

 We also said good bye to our 2002 Volvo wagon its time had come.. With a bit of angst and a dose of practicality we bought... wait for it... a new Honda CRV . Its my first brand new car ever having had as many European cars as I can remember...

January also had our first birthday's with Sophie and Aimee celebrating their 7th and 29th (:) birthday's . Sophie 's birthday featured 8 girls on a run away sleigh ride as the winter farm experience turned harrowing as the horses needed to run ... Everyone was ok. fortunately, For Aimee's birthday we all went to the newest VT sensation. (Skateland) that's right back to the future roller skating followed by Japanese hibachi dinner...

  February we had some visitors from NY as Aimee's friends from NY (Henry's god parents) Kelly and Tom came for a visit with their daughter katelin . We also caught up with Aunt Betsy at Jay peak for a day of water and skiing. Henry and I skied the best Jay had and Aimee  and the kids hit the water. If your every up there it is a blast..
Andrew's work has me traveling again hitting the warm weather spots of florida , California and Nashville. It was nice to get on the road again..
Well that's about it for now.. Looking forward to spring here...

2014 Late Fall Frosty Family Posts

Its late fall the leaves are gone... the cold is starting, and I am mulling around watching "henry danger" on nickelodeon with my kids..
time for a blog.... we had a record candy collection at  Halloween this year hitting not 1 but 2 neighborhoods around Hinesburg... The take over 90 pieces of candy per kid... the most popular this year "reeses" and "m+m's". This year aimee went old school and made outfits with for the girls. The result a Mama Fox (Aimee of course) a baby fox (sophie) and owl (willa) .Henry was a store bought "darth vader" ( I can't believe star wars is STILL so popular with kids)... and I was "walter white in  his meth lab outfit " from the series breaking bad .. (in somewhat bad taste for a kids neighborhood)

 

For my birthday this year myself and the kids made a quick  trip to Amma's . We made it to a cool lego art work display and then some great porkchops and noodle pudding. (my favorite.) I also made it  a out for dinner with aimee  and of  course  round (s) of golf... I scored my low rround of the year with Uncle Kev hitting a 79 at stowe...  I also hosted my third annual "MARN" party with 10 guys from around town.. This year's highlight some home brew  from local brewmaster brett... what a birthday week!!!

 

the kids also got themselves ready for ski season by testing out their equipment..

I've also started back on my Yoga exercise hitting the local studio and doing some public postures at local pumpkin sale for charity...

2014 Fall Back in Time Frosty Family Post

I know I know.. you aren't expecting a post.... however. recent events have discovered a once lost now recovered photos of me....
wait for it.... with hair.. .. actually that's not that big a deal.. what they really offer is proof of claim that I climbed to the top of an Egyptian pyramid.. my friend nat took these some 25 years ago and they have been digitized by Nat's dad.... the story here is this was our trip from Israel term abroad and while in egypt we came upon a pyramid and decided to climb it.. well maybe that's not how it went I leave the real details out but enjoy a few pictures...

As for the frosty updates..
Soccer every day with Henry's team going undefeated and sophie scoring her first goal..
henry is selling popcorn for cub scouts..check out his pitch..

We finished the living room. It looks great

finally fall is upon us...

2014 Summer Frosty Family Blog

Yes its official seasonal blogs rock... well I am finally back after a summer of fun at the frosty farm...
We rocked it out as usual.. this summer started off with a massive sports month of june which included little league for henry ,  camps of soccer for Sophie and Henry and carnival camp for Will at HNS.

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After camps we had a Frosty Family reunion at my niece Alyssa's .. highschool graduation in Niskayuna NY ... She is headed to Amma's almamater Bates next year.. The frost clan enjoyed a great day together eating, hiking and then eating again!!!

Then it was off to an action pack week in Longisland over the 4th.. WE had not one but two families visit us with old friends the milners from NYC as well as our Hinesburg friends the Goldsmiths. There wasn't' a quiet moment but we all had a blast. Of course there was the pie and this year we had multiple meals with Clams from the creek.... on the 4th we had for the first time a fire as a one day hurricane(or the remains of one) blow through so there was a chill which the fire helped remove..  check out the pics

After we got back more camps for everyone including art and nature camp for sophie and golf camp for henry..
We then did something unthinkable.. instead of our annual camp out we went camping to lake bosomeen in VT as a family. WE had a great time at this mid vt state park home of one the largest slate producing mines in VT.  We just missed the rain on the last morning..phew!!!

Once august hit we started work on the latest farm project:  We started to  redo  the only room  we hadn't renovated since we moved in : the living room Its sept and we arent done but its coming out awesome We added some salvaged antique mantle's and lights as well as vt marble.. Can't wait till its done.. Does this mean we are done fixing up the house.. ... ummm not a chance..

August also had a visit from Mom with her friend Flora.. We showed them the best vt has to offer the shelburne museum and a local farmers market... latter in August we hit Story Land and Santa's village with our Friends the Mcnabbs.. WE had a great time as usual but I think its on to disney for us.. we'lll see

Late august we did another camp out with some of Andrew's old college friends...at Camp Wofburt as in brentwood nh.. . It was great to catch up... wow its been 25 hrs since college..I think I am getting old...
Henry then had one final camp.. it was called Camp Grannie.. We flew him solo to PA From boston...

He did great... Grannie and Pappi spoiled him for a week and then he returned for the start of school and labor day !!!
Henry and Sophie started 3rd and 1st and Willa is in her last year of HNS .pre school...
Wow that's a lot for the summer...

Oh yeah and I played golf as usual treating myself to some new clubs as my 15 year olds had become ancient!!!

2014 Spring Frosty Family Blog

so.. I  think the posts are now becoming very seasonal.. I realize it makes it less frequent but I think more interesting to the readers to see a "seasonal" update... less is better right or is that more is better... I don't know.. so when I left you last I was writing my new chapter...
well here it is.. I was fortunate to get a job relatively quickly with an old company GE did work with.. Emdeon.. they are in the Healthcare IT space and make healthcare  better  !!! (I  know most healthcare it companies say the same thing but ) The good news is I can work right out of the house .. So to accommodate this I've fixed up the "nook" with an old school teacher desk some children's painting.. and a few of my old office gadgets from previous gigs... Now the hard part how do you do it with 3 kids and a wife home two days a week. not so easy but we are managing and I 've got a remote emdeon office near by which they let use....
enough about me for now.. so what else are we up to.. well we had a great april vacation.. Aimee took the kids to PA and visited museums ,hit a pirates game and had fun with Granny and Papi... she did this by herself and drove back and forth .. she is a trooper.. where was I you ask. Well Amma had her 75 birthday so her kids (myself, mark and betsy) took her to NY for the weekend and saw the Metropolitan opera, NY museum of art.& some great restaurants.... I was fortunate to have my friend Nat loan me his apt for the weekend as well as treat us to a great brunch at his restaurant Elizabeths.. it was a treat to and great to be in NY .. What a city..
After we all got back I headed back to work for emdeon and our spring began in earnest with constant kid activities..

Henry is doing double duty with both baseball and soccer . Its about 5 days a week of activities and on some days twice.. I think I may have overbooked him.. Henry also celebrated his 1st communion and we where fortunate to have Papi and Granny come to watch..

Sophie is doing horseback riding and is reading like crazy..Willa has been doing soccer. She also celebrated her 4th birthday .. As usual Aimee hit it out of the park with a awesome my little pony cake and activities galore...

ON memorial day we packed up the mini van and headed to Boston to see Amma .. We where able to see a great science museum in Manchester and enjoy a dinner in Andover with Betsy and the rest of the morison's

that's it for now.. I am planning some exciting projects for the farm... so stay tuned for "summer " updates
Andrew