Snow twice this week! The first snow was on Monday which the kids love because there is no school. Jessica miraculously had purchased two big sleds, and the kids used them extensively.
Our hay field in the snow.
Jessica's house in the distance. It was about 9 AM as we walked over to Bev's and Jessica's
The Manor from the mailbox
Here Jude and Abby have opted just to slide on their bums.....of course, the sleds were not at the Manor.
On Saturday there was more snowfall.
Clara and Abby came over, decked out in snow pants and parks, and snow boots. They crafted two beautiful small snow men and the wet clothing was proof that they had worked hard at snow moving and sculpting. At the end of the day they said it had been a perfect day. Abby she hoped it would snow on Monday because schools might close and they could go in the hot tub, watch a movie, and have hot chocolate. I said, "wait a minute....you do that everyday anyway!"
One benefit of the snow and below freezing temperatures is that we defrosted our two freezers. All the food got put into packing boxed and placed on a pallet, under a tarp, outside the basement door. The freezers were left open to drip dry.
Friday we went to Jenny Nilson's to help her with her Family History. She prepared deep fried cauliflower with a "Korean" sauce. Very tasty and, I was neglectful, and took no photos.
Friday night Jessica and Bev threw a shower for Kelsey Yates who recently had a baby boy, Tad Dee Yates.
Saturday Shelby had another swim meet which was at the OC pool. This was just a "fun meet" within the OC club. It was kinda nice because there wasn't a terrible crowd and there was actually a place to comfortably sit. She swam in three races - back stroke, freestyle, and butterfly (for the first) time.
There was also "regular" time here after school.
Saturday night was Game Night. I never really liked Game Night when we had it in Astana - it always seemed poorly planned and attended and kinda lame. When we returned to OC we found that the new ward was having a Game Night. We went---it was kinda poorly planned and attended and kinda lame. And a quarter of the year later, it was Game Night again. And we went in an attempt to b supportive and, well....supportive. Doesn't help that Dad does not play games. period.
I had found in my cleaning and sorting in the basement, a cardboard box full of memorabilia. Inside the box was my authentic, antique, original game of Clue - it even smelled like it had been in a box in a basement for more than 40 years. Oh, how I loved that game. During one summer and maybe two summers when I was in junior high school, we with my friends played Clue every aftrrnoon in a darkened bedroom. We too this sacred game to Game Night and taught Warren how to playu...but he never actually did because Sister Terres and Dan Bean wanted to join in the walk down memory lane. It was fun, but I had totally forgotten my process of figuring out who had committed the murder.
It was a pot luck dinner too, and Camille enjoyed whatever she was eating.
Next month we are going to take our lap tops Game Night and the display two signs that say, "Learn how to play the Game of Indexing" and the second will be "Learn how play Find Your Ancestors"
In the evenings - at 7:15 - Dad has started to go to Bev's house and read Harry Potter to Clara. I don't know who likes it more - Clara? or Dad?
Paul likes it too.
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