Snow-Christmas-1st Reconciliation

White Christmas!

Christmas came with a flurry of white this year, literally! Dan, Maggie and Lanna were out of school three days early with the arrival of several inches of snow. We were all excited for the beautiful white powder, sled rides and warming up with hot cocoa. The hill out of our street is fairly steep, and during snowy weather we have learned to park at least one car on the next street up, otherwise we will be stuck with out a car to drive. The snow plows don't come into our cul-de-sac so driving out is impossible. After several days of snow, with icing in between, our street was perfect for sleding, but impassible to vehicles. The Schwan's Man was foolish to drive down but unable to get back out. His truck was parked on our street for two days before a large tow truck pulled him out. The girls (and mom and dad) had a great time playing in the snow, sleding, making snowmen, and all the fun things you do in the snow. After a week of the snow, however, even they were tired of it.

We had about 6-inches on Christmas Day alone and I heard the girls groan "Not more snow!" I don't think I have ever heard that. But after two weeks of walking up to our car and driving with chains, we were all glad it finally melted away. Driving on snow with chains is fine, but when you hit clear pavement, it's like driving in Fred Flintstone's car! Christmas Day was a low key affair at our house with presents in the morning, A Christmas Story to watch over and over, a trip to the movies followed by a nice turkey dinner.

Lanna showing off her Top Chef game.

Maggie with her make-up...is she really old enough for that? No!!!

Look what we found under our tree.

1st Reconciliation

Lanna has been going through 1st Reconciliation classes, and last weekend she had her 1st Reconciliation. She was excited for this day and did great. She is now getting ready to take her 1st Communion Classes and will celebrate that sacrament in May.

Lanna's Art

Lanna's class made a family picture and then wrote a story about the picture. We have a frame where we display the a piece of the girl's art for a while, and this is our current display. Just for the record, Dan is not as old as she says, and Carol is not as young, but at least she was closer to my age than Dan's.

Who knew I was a mail order bride?


Goodbye snow!

We leave with this picture of the "Gianormous snowball" the girls made which lasted for days and days after the snow melted. Perhaps we will have snow later...much, much later!