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First Snow

We've been calling this week Ice Break 2015. Monday, school was canceled. Tuesday, DBU didn't open til noon. Wednesday, we were on a 2 hour delay. Friday, they closed school 2 hours early and today they canceled church. Were most of these cancellations necessary? Nope. But we'll take 'em. We had a great week relaxing and doing fun stuff we don't normally get to do. Maddy has bird watched, we visited Scottish Rite. Maddy will get a new AFO in a couple weeks. She was losing some ROM in her right ankle so need to go back into that AFO. We got to have lunch at one of Maddy's favorite spots--the Scottish Rite cafeteria. Wednesday afternoon was actually beautiful and sunny so we went on a walk. We also used Kelsay's birthday gift card  from the Halls to hit up Chick Fila for supper. Friday was the big snow. I don't think we've had real snow like that in Big D since Maddy was about 2. We had around 4 inches I think. The kids had a great time playing in the snow and it was,Kelsay's first snow here. I guess she did see some snow when we were in CO for Christmas, but she didn't really get to play in it. We also made snow ice cream. It was kind of meh after the first few bites, but fun to make.
I have been doing the 40 bags in 40 days challenge for lent. This weather and nothing going on has made for good cleaning out opportunities. I still have a lot to do but I did get Aaron's office cleaned with his help and got the understairs closet done today since no church. Both huge accomplishments. You know if you've seen either if those areas of my house lately.
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bee said…
These pics make me smile and laugh. So much fun and such fun memories for you. Too bad Kelsay will not remember most or any of it. At least she will have your account and the pics.
March 2, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Anonymous said…
I love that first one of Kelsey in the snow. Looks like they had a lot of fun. Ours are kind of tired of the snow by now, they just want it to go away.

Who made the hats? They're cute.

Amanda
March 3, 2015 at 12:39 PM
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