Snow Days

Well...I was really hoping to make it through the school year without using any of our snow days but that's not gonna happen.  We ended up getting some freezing rain, sleet, snow-ish mix on Tuesday night and a little more Wednesday night.  

So we've been home and making the most of our snow days.  Wednesday morning the boys wanted to go outside as soon as they woke up.  I convinced them to wait for it to warm up a bit and then we only stayed out for a short time.  

I told them I'd make the hot chocolate if they'd go in and thankfully they were ready! 

We warmed up by the fire in our fancy chairs.  I promise I'm searching for nice chairs for by the fireplace but it's hard to find what I want (when I don't even know what I want).  

Lance did an awesome job on the fireplace and now it's my turn to decorate around it.

I used my new crockpot I got for Christmas to make us some meatballs.  I love this crockpot because it has an automatic stirring attachment.  I haven't used it much because I'm trying to learn this thing.  It gets super hot and I'd be scared to leave the house with it going right now.  

Thursday's snow day was super lazy.  Bennett started a very low fever so I got out my Thieves oil and kept them inside.  By that evening his fever was up and we had a pretty rough night.  So I was definitely praying for another snow day and finally around 9 PM we got the call.  Thank you!  Friday morning we got up and waited for the sun to start melting some of the ice.  We just used 4WD on our road but by the main highway we were fine.

Little guy still had a red throat so we have to do a new antibiotic and steroid (which he hates taking and even made himself throw up this morning).  We got our mess, lunch, and headed home to nap.

Now we are just resting this weekend and hoping to get everyone well before Monday.  

And here are some pictures I meant to share earlier.  The boys before church one Sunday.

Bennett went with me to Walmart last week and apparently he snapped a few pictures for me.

Bennett got to hold the Bible for blast and he was so proud.