Melting

Do you know that this means?

Spring is just around the corner...

Ice "Festival"

I don't think it's a secret that winter is a little hard for us. The Murray family is always looking for adventure. We love free community festivals, free band concerts etc. So today Scoot found a Family Ice Festival online. It was only about 25 minutes away so we bundled the kids and headed to Downers Grove.

I really don't think I'd call it a festival.

It was just busy streets with random ice sculptures every once in a while.

JUNIE!!! We asked him about 100 times to just look with his eyes... he said this just fell into his hands.

Kissing booth?

Heart.

Crazyface.

This was one of Scott's personal favorites. It was a blank piece of ice. Neat.

This was actually my favorite exhibit.

These were cute statues.

The end.

Is it spring yet?

Timeout

Macker has been pretty spicy the last couple weeks. (read: naughtiest boy ever!)We've tried everything but today I think we might have found something that works. If he is snotty, mean, nasty, crabby etc. he has to sit in a timeout. Thus far it has done nothing he just screams and yells, gets quiet for one second then lets himself get up. (not our best parenting)

Today we made the rule that the timeout doesn't start until he is silent.(I realize this in not a new concept) When he was silent then I would set the timer on the stove. Can you tell he was not a big fan at first? He would just scream,"I. SAID. I'M. DUST. SO. SORRRRRY!!!"

After his 3rd long fit in the timeout chair he abruptly stopped yelling and said in a total man voice.

"Start the timer."

Two minutes later the timer buzzed he said sorry and I let him down. My guess is he will never be naughty again the rest of his life ;)

I asked him to show me his happy face.

I'm crazy about my Macker, spice and all.

Super Heroes

Today, a friend stopped by with 2 huge bags of clothes for the boys! So thankful!

Scotty loved having his nice friend Abby to play super heroes.

Crabby Macker woke up and joined the fun!

**Super hero outfits are courtesy of a cool neighbor!

More Winter

Frozen water.

Scott has been away at camp since Friday. Amelia has had Influenza B since last Wednesday. (poor girl) She still wanted to play outside for a little while.

The sun was shining and the kids had fun making a snow fort.

This is the little path that the neighbor made so that we can all get to our mail.

He's All Mine!

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Buddies

Scooter was so happy to have these buddies in town. Jeff Durbin was the camp speaker and Sean came into town for a meeting. (and to spend time with us)
Our friend Sean arrived from AZ and he hardly had his shoes off before the fighting began. Junedog had been dreaming a battle.

Junie wants to marry Sean's daughter.... Sean told him only a really tough guy could have her...

Who are the crazy guys in the helmets?
Serious fighting.

The blizzard hit and it was great to have Sean here. He and Scott shoveled for no less than 4 hours. They also went and did a neighbors driveway too.

Do you think Scoot was happy to have his buddy helping?

I overheard Sean said something like, "I'll never complain about the heat in AZ again..."
Time for more fighting... yeah!!

He's gone back to sunny AZ and we already miss him.

Blizzard 2011

The blizzard began about 3:00pm on Tuesday. I had just gotten home from picking Sissy up from school (early) and the wind began to really blow. By that evening it was pretty amazing. Scott saw a couple neighbors snow blowing so he joined in. Before Macker went to bed the snow was already really deep.

Our electricity had been flickering all evening but at around 9 it was gone. Thank God, the kids stayed asleep all night. This morning the house was 49 degrees and I don't know if you can tell but the snow was almost covering the entire window. The lights turned on at 7:00am and we all broke into a happy dance singing 'This is the day, this is the day.....
After breakfast it was time to get to work.

Theses pictures don't begin to do it justice. Unreal!

Our freezing snowman.

The back door.

Scotty made a slide.
Here's June enjoying our patio furniture.

The snow is so deep they just walked right over the back fence.

Is it spring yet?

Scooter worked so hard making a path for our car.

The rest of the day we'll spend enjoying movies and rest in our WARM and cozy house.