Happy love day

This little icicle was our little Valentine miracle hanging outside our bathroom window this morning. I thought it was perfect for the day! I hope you all have lots of love today.

Last night our church had a progressive dinner for the adults. It was a ton of fun. appetizers at one house, main course at another with different couples, and dessert at the church with everyone, and games to boot. I do believe a great time was had by all, and I hope we do it again!!

We came home from church today to heart and lip shaped sandwiches from daddy. It was all yummy, and extra special with the love.

What did you do for your snow day?

This was my snow day project this week. I spent a couple of days playing carpenter
We got this table and chair set from a neighbor. It has 4 chairs, and pretty hearts allover it. Nice, and perfect for the little girls it came from, but a little too delicate for our rough and tumble rowdy boy. I was just going to replace the backs of the chairs, and give it a new coat of paint, but they are old, and a little wobbly.
So I made a new base for the table using these plans here, from Knock off Wood. I used the existing table top. and the base has a storage bin in the bottom.
I also used the plans for this chair here, but I changed it a bit, and added a hinges seat with an additional storage bin.
Jackson seems to like them, and they are quite large and he will be able to use them for a long time. They still need some wood filler, sanding, and a good coat of paint, but they turned out pretty good! I may have to sew some chair pads too, who knows, there are endless possibilities to think of.

Round 2

Round 2 of the "snowpocalypse" or "snowmaggedon" hit us Tuesday afternoon. After the 21" that we got on Saturday, we got another 12" this round. This storm was enough to cancel school and all church and other activities for the rest of the week. (they could have had school, but they have Monday off for Presidents day, so I think they wanted an extended weekend)
This is what the street looked like on Wednesday morning. It snowed from Tuesday afternoon until Wed. at 9 pm.

JT and his friend Justin spent the day building snow caves and a tunnel system. It was really quite large and roomy.
I think I have had my fill of snow for the year, but unfortunately it is supposed to snow again in a week. So much for global warming.

Blizzards and Stone Soup

Winter here in Pennsylvania is often very cold, and usually snows, but nothing like this!! PA has been declared in a state of emergency today due to the wonderful blizzard that we had last night. I think we totaled around 15-18 inches in our area(Ok officially it was 21"), but there are drifts up to 4 1/2 feet. I also so a pic of some near us that measured 22 inches( they have dubbed this storm "snowpocalypse 2010). John works weekends, and tried to go to work this morning, and after shoveling the car out of our driveway, he made it about 4 houses down the street, before getting stuck in a neighbors driveway.


This is what Jackson looked like in a shallow drift, and below is me on our back deck. It is past my knees.

So, What is a kid to do with snow like this? Make an extensive cave and tunnel system of course!! All of the kids on our street congregated in front and built some pretty cool snow caves!
This is the snow drift up the side of the van.
The girls were all cold, so they huddled together and all tried to stand over the heat register together. So what are cold kids supposed to eat on a day like today? Stone Soup!! I invited them all to participate and bring something to donate to our soup, I even added a real stone!!
Jackson was my little Chef's apprentice, and helped me put the chopped veggies into the pot.

We enjoyed our soup with homemade whole wheat bread (with red swirls for Valentines day). One kid told me that he doesn't usually like wheat bread, but mine was good, and I have to agree, it is pretty darn good!
All of the kiddies enjoyed their meal. I think all but one had multiple bowls of soup and pieces of bread. One of the moms down the street made chocolate chip cookies and brought to share too. Not a bad way to spend a snow day!!!

New Jammies!

This fall Kenzie's band played with the Shippensburg University band at one of their football games. At the game they were handing our these free T-shirts. They were plain except for this saying on the back.I decided to use these to make something else.

New Jammie for the little guy. Now trying to get him to hold still long enough to take a good picture of them is a real challenge, but they turned out cute!

I used the existing neckline and collar so that part was easy. I also used the bottom hem that was already there for the ham on the pant legs, so less work for me there too! I just traced around some pants and shirt that we already had, and cut out the basic shape. I traced the sleeves separately, and then sewed them on after. As for the saying on the back, I added this green stripe with some scraps from a different project, and then I used some scrap orange to make the snake. The snake kind of wraps around to the back of the shirt too.
It turned out cute, and only took me about an hour to sew all together. The best part is that it was all FREE!!!!