Snowpocalypse (Part 2)

So I think this whole "snow" thing officially is getting old. On Sunday the roads were still icy so church was cancelled across the entire stake. While we love going to church, it was actually kinda nice because we just got to hang out at home as a family, play games, and just chill. We also took the whole 'home-centered, church-supported' idea to a whole new level by having our own church service at home! Luke wanted to lead the music so he was in charge of that, and then Jacy, Luke and Amit gave talks. We even brought up our mock podium that we used when Luke was practicing giving his first ever talk in primary!  The best part was that when Luke got up to "give" is talk about Nicodemus, we thought he was just going to summarize the story.  But then he started to talk.  Amit and Marinda looked at each other, and then Amit grabbed the children's new testament stories off the shelf and turned to the Nicodemus story.  And yeah, you guessed it, Luke was quoting from memory the ENTIRE story word for word!

And our next speaker, from the Baby's Quorum...

Hot chocolate (and hot chocolate goatees) have been an important part of the kids' snow experience

Sunday evening the snow started picking up again, and then Monday was the start of slushmageddon - snow that turned to rain which didn't quite melt the snow but just made it super heavy, and then it froze overnight. All in all, this meant no school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Amit worked from home those days. Since we didn't want the kids to spend all their time staring at a screen, Marinda instituted mommy school! She had the kids on a schedule (which they helped pick out using cards).

Activity cards

Our bushes were collapsing under the weight of the water-saturated snow

The other big thing this week was Valentine's Day! We are going to celebrate tomorrow (Monday) because 1) we didn't know if we'd be able to get down our hill with the ice and slush by Thursday and 2) it's WAAAAAY easier to get a good reservation a few days after Valentine's Day. But the kids had Valentine's celebrations at school - and we didn't even know school was on until the night before! But Marinda came to the rescue with her Cricut. The kids had a blast working with Mommy. Jacy was amazed that you pushed a button and it did all the work for you!

In other news, Asher is army crawling all over the place now! He can now get to the family room pretty easily, and thankfully the kids have been really on top of keeping the room clean and keeping legos and other small things off the ground. He also has gotten into trouble by crawling under chairs and getting stuck! We're glad our little explorer is so curious though! 

On the downside, Asher was sick this week. Maybe he's teething, or maybe he just caught something, but either way he has been pretty unhappy. The good news is that he is being a lot more vocal about how unhappy (or happy) he is. Sometimes we'll talk to him and he'll "respond" and Luke will be like "Hey! Asher said he wants more food!" or "Asher's talking! He says he wants his bottle!"