Snow, Cold, Ice, Snow, Cold, Ice...

Well, this past week was even nuttier than the week I posted about.  I have never seen a winter like this!  The exciting thing is most of my spring cleaning and organizing is done!

I think S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder) is a VERY real thing.  Its one thing to have the joy of the days off, but never being able to go outside is just so miserable.  And when we do go out its miserably cold! and Miserable!  We have missed almost 10 days of school with a storm coming today, one on Monday and another doozy Thursday to Friday!  Make it stop!!!  We hit an all time record low of -30 actual temp and we almost hit -60 with windchills.  The pain has been pretty unbearable.

Her car was solid ice- she had to use boiling water  to clear it off!

 One day we even had thunder, lightning and hail!!!

So how do we deal with the cabin fever?
You do science experiments and fun in the snow (only for a few seconds or you DIE!):

We thought he would go straight throw all the feet of snow- but apparently the cold had turned it to solid ice!  Poor sore Tyler!

See my facebook page for videos.

Hot bunny yoga! Jack was not amused and doesnt like child pose. He likes to run around downward dog though.

As a way to be daring, I planned an in depth re-enactment of the fight scene in the Last Jedi (Thats Luke and Kylo Ren) in the snow, BUT my sliding door is frozen solid and once again the ice and cold thwarted my plan!

Skype with Ellie (and Kayla lol)

The beauty of it all:
Look at this beautiful image of our frozen parking lot one morning!

Alayna and Tylers quilts came back from Project Repat and turned out beautiful!

Snow, Snow…oh, and more snow…

The weather has been insane!  So much snow and sub zero temps!  This past week students only had a half day of school.  Temps will be making record low next weeks so I think we will have more cancellations and be in school until July.  Its stupid. And cold. And the cold hurts. And I wish I was in the Caribbean. But the days off have been much needed!

The drifts from the blowing snow were very high!

The thing on the left is our grill

Somuch shoveling- even did it after church with our church clothes on.

Wind chills have been down to –40 and they are predicting below –50 next week.

Todays pic:

On the 1 day I had school (PD for teachers) I got some frantic calls from Alayna.  She had sliced her finger on a pear can lid and was bleeding a lot. I raced home, we cleaned out and took her to the walkin clinic.  She had to get a tetanus shot (boo) but didnt cut deep enough for stitches (yeah) . They cleaned it out and its been healing great!  She has registered for classes and will be graduating early next January!  Whoohoo!

It was like trying to climb Mount Everest just to get to the mailbox!

But I have been working hard so far this year on many things.  One is finding beauty in the things I cannot change.  Its hard to see but the snow drifts and print the wind left were quite beautiful!

Again hard to see but when the sun came out it was like everything was covered in glitter!

There is a group of turkeys who cross my way home almost every day.  I love seeing them. They are huge!

If only I  could truly capture the sunsets with the snow!

There is something inherently beautiful about this.  I like its me- trying to bloom with bad weather, health problems, etc.  But I CAN bloom.

Hug sand love from the state where the air hurts our face!

Happy New Year! (14 days late lol)

Ready for the New Year!  Lots of great goals and fun plans!

We loved having Marisa for Christmas.  It was super relaxing and fun!  We missed Brandon, Kayla and Ellie though!!!!

Loved seeing Aquaman on Christmas Eve.  Plus an unplanned shopping for and sneaky drop off of groceries to a needy family in the ward!

Christmas Day was wonderful!

Traditional crepes!

Wonderful gifts!  Thank you dad for the beautiful handpainted Nutcrackers!

In fact we were so relaxed I barely took any notes or pictures!  Oh well!

Ready to conquer some goals and make this year better than the last!

And we got our 1st snow…

Happy Busy Holidays!

I have no idea how we got to December already! AND only about a week away from Christmas!  Marisa flies in this Thursday!  We are so excited to have her come!  We are sad Kayla, Brandon and Ellie wont be with us- but we are sure are glad we got them for a long time at Thanksgiving!  Maybe we need that new Facebook Portal thing?

We are also so glad they are safe after their accident.  They hit a deer and the car is a mess, but they are all safe! Kayla is finishing up her final semester this week, right? Then she has an internship left.  Brandon will be done in April. Crazy!

We had a super icy day here and Tyler had to work.  He flew into the curb and cracked his hubcap, but he was safe.  Yikes!

Tyler is finishing up his finals for his semester at Kirkwood and seems to be enjoying his classes.  He loves his job doing before and after school care with Waypoint. In fact, this week his supervisor said that she doesn't know which building to assign him to because everyone just loves him!

Alayna has been so busy that I barely see her.  She has been doing service projects with the honor society (like wrapping gifts at the mall.) Plus she was accepted as part of the stage crew for the hi-Style showchoir.  She is really enjoying it!  They have had lots of late night rehearsals and last night they had “Get in the Spirit.”  Also, she has apparently been hogging all of the artistic talent! AND its crazy to think that in just a little over a year she will graduate!  Where did all that time go?

This has been a tough and crazy month for me (no shocker there) but I am happy to have a job I love and wonderful people to work with!

#TigerTuesday

Marisa gets here Thursday, Christmas presents are ready to go, Aquaman tickets have been purchased (because priorities) and I am ready to hunker and spend time with my amazing family!  Happy Holidays!!!

Sad to see them go!

It was an amazingly wonderful week with so much fun and laughter!  I am extremely grateful for my beautiful family and all of our blessings!  Here are a few misc pics of the rest of our time together!

This is one of my favorites…