January 30, 2011

January 30, 2011

Dear Family and Friends,

This has been a strange week. Monday B-man went to school as usual. I stayed pretty close to home the rest of the day. The night we had FHE and discussed the articles of Faith and worked on memorizing one.

Tuesday was a teacher work day so B-man got to be home from school. We went to the grocery store, and he got to play with one of his friends in the neighborhood. It was a fairly slow relaxing day.

Wednesday morning there was a little bit of snow. Maybe just more than an inch. School was cancelled and B-man got a day off. The rest of the day was pretty nice, and even though the news was calling for more snow that day, it really didn’t seem likely. M even came home early because of the snow. But when he got home it still wasn’t snowing. We watched a little girl of some friends that are moving so that they could make a few runs of things to their new place. By the time she came to get her (and we stopped yapping) the snow was really coming down in earnest. It snowed very heavily for the rest of the day. There was even thunder and lightning when the storm started. Very strange for that to happen while it is a blizzard. I was so grateful that M was home. The roads were terrible and many people were stuck in rush hour traffic for hours and hours. What normally took people one hour to many people more than seven to get home! Gross! M shoveled several times while it was snowing. It was a super heavy wet snow, and he didn’t want to wait until the morning when it would be harder to remove than it already was. He came into bed about midnight after his last clearing of snow. We got at least 10” but maybe a little more.

The next day school was cancelled again. M had two extra hours from work to get into work so we all slept in a little…. (like 7:15) and then he went out and thanks to his shoveling the night before he only had to move what the plows had put back in front of our cars. It took him fifteen minutes and then he was off to work. I was really hoping that he would get the day off to, but oh well. That morning the roads were clear enough and I watched the kids of a friend so she could go do grocery shopping. B-man spent the morning outside. He was so excited to have so much snow to play with, and with all the neighbors out clearing off snow he had plenty of friends and other adults around. It was perfect for him. Somehow we managed to pack away his snow pants, so he has been doubling up and then I get more laundry, but it is worth the extra work. That afternoon M did come home early so that he could take B-man sledding. We have a great sledding hill nearby, but I just couldn’t take him with RM and J. Just a little too tricky. B-man has been waiting all winter for some good sledding, and this is the first storm that dropped enough for a sledding trip. M took B-man and at the last second also took J. I guess J even went down the hill once and was a fairly good sport. The boys all came home frozen and we had hot chocolate and then dinner.

Friday schools were closed again. B-man spent most of his time outside again. The day was fairly quiet and not a whole lot going on. M helped move our friends for most of the evening. We were going to have our friends over that had moved for dinner, but I discovered that J had a fever. So we had to scratch that plan. That night we had homemade hamburgers (or “burgers” in our house) and then we had a family party and played the Wii. It really is fun for all ages.

Saturday J woke up a fairly sick boy. Unfortunately for us the home inspection on our house was already scheduled and we had to be out of the house. I also had a basketball game, and the timing worked out perfectly. We went to the game, and M stayed far away from people with J and RM. B-man had a good time playing with his friends. The game was a forfeit (in our favor) but there were enough people that we were still able to scrimmage and have a good game. After the game B-man got to go home with one of his friends. He was so excited and it worked out well for us because we didn’t really know what to do with our boys until we could go back to the house. We ended up getting some lunch and then driving around. Luckily we discovered that the inspector had finished early so we came home and let J sleep in his own bed for a little nap. He was not a happy camper for most of the day. He had a terrible cough, fever, etc. I went to get B-man a little later in the afternoon. M (at the last minute) decided to go see a woman that he had baptized on his mission. She was in the area and would be returning to her country in a few days. He thought it would be a fairly quick trip, but in the end it took all the rest of the day. He was happy to have seen her. B-man stayed home with me, he played outside in the snow (it hasn’t been melting) and then helped me sample new recipe for baked churros. They were good, but they were more cream puff than churro.

Sunday M had no meetings. He ended up staying home from church with J who was still running a fever. In our Sacrament meeting our Bishopric was reorganized with a new bishop. Our old bishop had served for six years! That is a long time. In the third hour there was a Relief Society Visiting teaching conference. It went well, and then we were off back to home. The rest of the day was pretty quiet and uneventful.

We love you all!

The C Crew

P.S. Here’s a little movie of one of the ways J keeps himself entertained.