Winter has Arrived!!

Even Hawkeye got out in the snow - he didn't mind it.

Look Mom what I made - we can just leave these out and grab them one at a time as we need them. Yeah right - I knocked them down the next a.m.

This past week we definitely welcomed winter back into our lives. Katie only had school on Monday and Friday - having three days off due to the snow. We spend Tuesday and Wednesday home and by Wednesday afternoon Katie was bored. She managed to shoot a documentary of the blizzard by borrowing my phone. If you are so inclined sit back and watch the blizzard according to Katie. It's kinda funny because at some point I start yelling at her not realizing that she is shooting her documentary. Oh well - such is life at the Kaufman house. (To shut the Christmas music off scroll down to the bottom of the blog and hit the pause button - or you'll hear Judy Garland and Katie Kaufman)

Katie's class had their turn at the Advent prayer service on Friday. They did great considering they had only practiced on Monday. Katie has been practicing singing in the car and did a great job during her part of the 15 minute service. She got to be a shepherd and wear her pink bathrobe (which I am certain the original shepherds probably wore) and got to hold up a heart to show the love that Christ gives to us. She held it up proudly in her pink bathrobe.

I have gotten to know my snowblower pretty well this week. I used it several times on Tuesday and Wednesday because I live in the prime snow drift location in Cedar Rapids. Everytime I turned around I the wind had blown another drift across the driveway. I'm very grateful to my family who gave me money for my birthday to buy the snowblower. It worked well!!

That's about it for us this week. We have a busy week ahead of us and hopefully Mother Nature will cooperate with all of our plans - if not I'm sure we'll adjust!