Snow not. This is what we did prior to our warm front blowing in, currently 50 degrees today.
I know, awkward kissing photo. blek. Just know Mat had planned a cross country skiing trip for my birthday with no kids and it was magic. I am showing how thrilled I am.
We also attempted ice skating over the break. The kids have always had it in their heads that this ice skating thing was easy and this what people were supposed to do in the winter. Must be all those movies. It was not so easy. In fact, my body hurt after 2hrs in the squat position.
Holding onto the sides of the rink was very common.
We've been washer-less and dryer-less for 6mths. How did a mother of 3 survive? THANKFULLY my in-laws were kind enough to save us the laundromat trips and let us do our laundry at their house. And, THANKFULLY I just so happen to love my in-laws.
We bought our first pair of washer and dryers on black Friday. However, I got a call 2wks later after they got around to PROCESSING it (2wks really?) and they told me they sold out of the model I wanted. Ouch! The conversation was not pretty. There was nothing I could do about it. It was all in that fine print hoodie ha.
The second pair was purchased at 9PM after an all day shopping trip. Mat and I hate to shop. They arrived 3wks later. Here's the beauts Clark:
These are the Whirlpool Cabrios and they are quite social and technological. They are so interesting that my husband almost stood there taping a whole cycle.
I happened to experiment on my newborns with 6 loads of laundry. I was thinking of everything possible to wash. After that, the novelty wore off.
Alas, I am happy just knowing I can drop in a load at 9PM at night.
I'm one of those who takes down the tree immediately after Christmas. As I studied my psyche, , I came to these two conclusions:
1) Looking at the Christmas decorations all around me reminds me of what I "get" to do. Because I don't like My TO Do list weighing me down, I figure I might as well get it taken care of now and move on with my life after Christmas. It is so relaxing to sit in a thoroughly spring cleaned house after the holiday.
2) With the inflation of toys, I need room to store them away.
After we got the 6hrs of cleaning out of the way, we trucked off to a pupusaria. It's a Salvadoran food made out of corn masa, filled with beans, salty cheese, chorizo, pork, chicken or a new one called loroco (loroco is a vine flower bud from Central America--tasted like hay). We loved the food until the owner decided to start remodeling the tile on his counter. Pound, pound, bite, pound, pound, bite. Who does that? Not a pleasant sound to listen to while eating.
Onto the temple lights.
(for those of you not LDS, this is our headquarters for our church. They always decorate the temple so nicely, and I mean intertwining every branch with lights decorating nicely. You need to come see it.)
Here's inside the Mormon Tabernacle Choir-- it warmed us up for a minute
We also visited the Church Museum which is like a mini Children's Museum, but for free! Very interactive for the kids. Here's Gretchen learning how the Mexican Hat Dance.
There is also an actual size Moroni that you see on our steeples of the temple. It's gold and pretty. Micah took one look at it and said: "Is thwere chwocolate unda dwere? (Is there chocolate under there?"
