Project 365, Week 5

And just like that we are just about out of January.  Our week was fairly quiet and very white. :)

January 23

I had the honor of documenting a banquet at church, recognizing both the graduates of the Bible Institute  and the four individuals being ordained as ministers.  One of them is my friend Jen (Hi, Rev. Jen!)

I really like this one of our senior pastor and the special speaker having a good time.

January 24

Every mother has seen this face...Mom, pick me up!

 January 25
Aiden's doing really well with a spoon but I caught him "cheating".  (Amanda thought he would look pretty with earrings.)

 January 26
A little blurry but a classic Amanda face when she's up to something. :)
It snowed a good part of the afternoon and was SO pretty coming down.  Shaun had gotten a flat tire the day before so after he fixed it we went out to swap vehicles with him.  We made it an adventure outing by stopping for munchkins.

January 27

I thought the snow we'd gotten the day before was the storm they'd been calling for.  Nope....it was actually the one that came in overnight and dumped 16+ inches in a matter of hours.  Shaun was up at 4 am plowing, home for 5 minutes, including a shower and then went to do taxes until late.  That left me to shovel.  I started in the driveway to clean up what Shaun had plowed and to make it wide enough to open car doors (only on one side of the car).  I took a break, went in to help children, etc and when I went out a few hours later, the sidewalk had been snow-blown!  I don't even know who did it, but I was so grateful!

 I have reader-friends in Alaska, Michigan and Wisconsin and upstate New York but I don't know who else would be able to comprehend how much snow 35-40 inches is.  I find myself laughing at the ridiculousness of it as I drive around.  Mailboxes?  Gone.  Bushes and shrubs? Gone.  Street signs and lampposts?  Going, going.

 Might be a while before we are swinging again.

 The good news is the eye-sore man lift that sits in our driveway is almost completely buried.  One more good storm... :)

 January 28
These two both get a lot of enjoyment out of this activity and Aiden is sitting for longer and longer stretches of time.

 Girls night out!  I met up with three ladies who I went to high school with, one I was very close to.  It was so good to catch up and hear what they are doing now.  Before we knew it, 3 1/2 hours had gone by.

 January 29
Pop and Kiki took the kids overnight so I could go out since Shaun was working late.  They tried to go sledding but there was too much snow!  Here they are tag-teaming a very tired Aiden.

 On the way home, we drove by a farm and since all the animals were out, we pulled over for a bit.

 I was teasing Avery that it looked like one of the bulls wanted to get her.  Then Amanda asked if she could get out...she wanted to go rumble with them. :)

I'm linking up with Sara and co this week.