Ben and Haley Enjoyed Snowy December

We certainly had a lot of snow this December!

Ben and Haley got home from their warm, Florida honeymoon right before the big snowstorms hit. Which was good for me as they were awesome snow removers. And who says you need to wear pants to do so?!?

Ben and Haley put the snow to good use. They spent four days in the backyard working on making an igloo. They mixed water with the snow packed in rectangular plastic containers as their building blocks.

I was so happy they chose the spot right below the kitchen window to build their igloo. They provided such entertainment for me each of those days as I could hear them planning and laughing and I could watch them building their igloo from the ground up.

 

They even worked into the night a couple of the days.

Their snow skills didn't stop at igloo. When they saw Sarah's efforts at snowman building, they decided to make two of their own.

They welcomed another snow storm. It meant fresh material for making ice blocks, which they worked on after they had cleaned off our driveway and sidewalks, of course. (Great kids!!)   

  

This night they were determined they were going to stay out there until the last ice brick was in place. They were so eager to see if the dome of the igloo would stay strong.

Ta-da!! Project completed successfully!!

And now here comes one of my favorite jokes... How do you keep an eskimo family together???

With IGLOO!!!!!!

Quotes of the Week

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."  

-- Brian Tracy 

"Leave people to their opinions and judgments. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours."  

-- Leon Brown 

"Abundance is not a state of finances or wealth, it is a state of inner health. Wherever there is joy, appreciation, gratitude, giving, caring, creativity, vision, inspiration, love, patience and playfulness, there is abundance." 

-- Author Unknown 

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!" 

-- Lawrence G. Lovasik 

Quotes of the Week

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions, not words, that matter."'  

-- Nicholas Sparks 

"When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out."  

-- Elizabeth Bowen 

"If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk." 

 -- Robert Baden Powell 

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else."  

-- Judy Garland 

Quotes of the Week

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take. Life is measured by the moments that take our breath away." 

 -- Hilary Cooper 

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world." 

 -- Joseph Addison 

"Two things that could measure who we are: The way we manage when we have nothing, and the way we behave when we have everything." 

-- Author Unknown 

"The Eskimos have fifty-two words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love." 

 -- Margaret Atwood