Snow Much Fun

It’s been a bad work week so this is my first chance to blog this week.  The long nights are over (for right now) and I’ve got time to write my post!

Last Monday, February 10, was the kids 100th day of school.  They took their projects and had a little party with their class.  Their hallway and each doorway was all decorated.  They had a fun day!

Starting at the beginning of last week they started talking about a large snowfall.   As in they were calling for up to 12 inches of snow.  The forecasts all varied about how much and when it was coming.  We cancelled three things at work and rescheduled them for this week (hence the bad week!).  They cancelled school on Wednesday and I worked from home.  We waited and waited and it finally started mid afternoon.  It snowed and snowed the rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday too.  We ended up with at least 8 inches of snow.  A rare thing for this neck of the woods.   The world shut down after that for a few days.  Of course I had to work from home but I did take some breaks to check out the snow.  We went out once Thursday morning and then later that afternoon.  Drew took the kids out Friday morning as well.

The kids enjoyed the snow.  They stayed out about an hour each time.  Lindy ate her weight in snow and Will really enjoyed sledding.  We never got a snowman built but we took pictures with the neighbors’ snowman.  We played with our neighbors quite a bit which the kids enjoyed.

We finally ventured out Saturday to sign Will up for Tee ball and we checked out the church parking lot.  We also ate lunch at a new little café in town.  Sunday we had church and Will and I ran out in the afternoon to do a couple errands.  He got a much needed haircut. 

Enjoy our snow pictures. 

She helped make snow cream on Wednesday afternoon!
Checking out snow fall.  Even Jack was curious!

My rain gauge was full!
Her hat twisted around so it was practically covering her eyes!
Her snow mound!
A snow skier!

Five minutes after taking a picture the whole thing toppled! 
He would slide down and give everyone the thumbs up!
Valentines Day!  It was slightly overlooked by the snow.  I had something for Lindy and I ran out and got something for Will on Wednesday before it snowed. 
He got the Jungle Book movie!
Lindy found my old jewelry box at my parents’ house over Xmas and wanted it.  I found her this cute one that she loves!
She was posing for me.  What a nut!



My Valentines (well, Drew, too!)

Finally a Normal Week

After the snow melted the kids finally had a normal, full week of school.  And we had a normal week of work.  It was pretty normal which meant it was pretty boring.

Will had basketball practice Tuesday night and GrandBob came up to watch.  Will has so much fun in his practice.  My friend, Julie, whose son is on Will’s team, played pirates with Lindy the whole practice.  She was so nice to play with her the whole time! 

Thursday Lindy had PT for the first time in like 4 months.  Last time we went was October and we went back to the high brace.  Thankfully she looks pretty good.  We are taking the top strap off her brace and wearing the low brace after school and on weekends.  She wants her to build some strength in her calf muscles.  She said one is larger than the other.  Apparently the tall brace doesn’t make her calf work as much.  She showed her some awesome walking on the steps, alternating without holding on.  I would never actually let her do this but it’s good that she can.  She showed her some great standing with one foot in front of the other.  She can now jump on one foot with her right foot but can’t on her left foot.  But she said that would be hard in the tall brace.  We need to keep working on jumping with two feet together (which she was doing great tonight) and jumping on one foot on the left. 

Friday night we went out to eat and got Krispy Kreme doughnuts for dessert.  Yum!  Saturday Will had another basketball game and did about the same.  No tears and he was actually having some fun.  Still watched the clock but doing better.  We had another busy Saturday.  The kids finished their 100th day of school projects and finished their Valentines.  We even made Valentine cookies.  Store bought but home decorated!  Saturday night we headed to church for a yummy dinner and had fun playing Bingo.  None of us actually won at Bingo but we had fun.  Lindy didn’t really play and Will got mad that he didn’t win.  But it was still fun!

Yesterday we had church and then we went to the 80th birthday party of one of our past church members.  It was a surprise party and it was so fun!  Louise had told someone that she just wanted to sing and listen to good music so the first hour was a hymn sing and then there was a reception.  It was fun to see our old church members!

 

Krispy Kreme doughnuts!

100 Mickeys for 100 days of school!  While in Disney World we took pictures of 100 different Mickeys.  We ordered them and cut them out and the kids glued and taped them on posters!  We worked hard on these!

Valentine cookies Saturday afternoon.  Always an adventure to make cookies. 

Finishing up her Valentines!

Drew helping Will finish his Valentines!
Looking dapper for church on Sunday!

Beautiful girl!

Snow in NC!

I wrote so many posts from Disney World that I had to take a break.  Now two weeks have gone by and I’m hearing murmurings that it’s time for another post.

So let me see where I left off.  Oh, we got home from Disney World.  And I totally want to go back and forget about reality! 

Sunday we headed back to church and that afternoon we went to the trampoline park with our church friends.  The kids enjoyed bouncing off some energy. 

The kids headed back to school on Monday and we headed back to work and reality. Except what was supposed to be a normal week didn’t happen.  They started forecasting snow and Tuesday the kids ended up getting out of school two hours early.  Then they didn’t go to school again that week!  So much for a normal week.  We got a couple inches of snow, which is just enough to shut down the South. I was a little surprised they didn’t go Friday but apparently there were side roads that weren’t cleared.

The kids had fun sliding down our driveway.  It is just steep enough for them to have fun on.  Not steep enough that I have to be too worried about them.  The sun was shining bright but it was really cold outside.  We stayed out about an hour before they were done.  They sledded just enough to melt most of the driveway and I finished shoveling it with no problem.  

I worked from home Wednesday but had some appointments on Thursday.  They spent half a day with me at work on Friday.  I wouldn’t say a ton of work got done that week but we made it work!

Will had a basketball game that Saturday and did the best he had ever done.  Before his game Will and I played our own game at home.  We practiced checking the clock and then going back to the game.  We practiced covering his ears the last 5 seconds.  There were no tears and he was definitely much happier at the game.  He still watched the clock too much but he also dribbled down the court, passed the ball, got a rebound, and threw it in from out of bounds.  It was his best game! 

Saturday night we went over to Ed and Jamie’s for a nice dinner.  Back at our house, there was a lot of cleaning going on.  It was a nice weekend!

Sweet Girl!

Trampoline park





Cute outfit!

Really bright snow!!
Lindy is a star!

Heading to Will’s game!