Saturday Snow

Troy and I slept in today, who knew if we were left a lone and no alarm clocks went off we could sleep past 8:30 am.  It was nice, especially because we knew it was going to be a cold day.  In fact we looked out the window around 9 am and it was snowing.  First snow fall of the year (here on the benches).  It wasn't enough to stick to the ground, but it was on and on like that all day.  

Troy had some work to do at the office and what a treat, for everyone, took Morgan and Ethan with him.  

So Grant and I ran errands and did a little shopping.  For Halloween this year Ethan's first grade class is dressing up as character's from books and stories they are studying this year.  One character on the list that Ethan keeps going back to is an owl.  So we bought some fabric to make a cape so he can be an owl.  Very exciting.  Otherwise he wants to be a Jedi for Halloween, I'm hoping he fits in Grant's old costume this year.  Morgan wants to be Dracula so she can go around saying, "I vant to suck your blood".  We bought a rocker wig for Grant, he wants his friends to dress as rockers (rock band) and go trick-or-treating.  We'll have to see, since we have the Ukraine kids here that weekend.

My friend Suzie got her husband the Settler's game for his birthday this week, so we had them over for dinner tonight so we could teach them how to play.  It was a lot of fun.  We cooked little hamburgers that Troy calls Sliders.  We made a bunch of different types.  Like hamburgers with salsa in them, ones full of veggies, some teryaki burgers and some super hot jalapeno burgers.  And we had promised some chocolate moose, Troy's favorite dessert.  We took the picture of the kids with the dog, because their one son is terrified of dogs.  We're hopping if he sees Percy in the picture he'll slowly get used to him.  

After dessert the adults, including Chelsey, played some Settlers, while the kids watched a movie and played downstairs.  It was a good game, it took a little longer than I told them it would, but I think that is normal when players are learning the game.  It's good Troy was there to help rein me in.  I would go off explaining things and a couple times it was overload.  As we were playing it began snowing again, but it was cold enough for it to stick to the ground.  So at 9 pm we had a white yard.  It took all day, but it finally stuck.  The proof is on the playhouse.

Wanted to add that Sunday we got three more inches of snow.  Talk about a winter wonderland, you would have thought it was Christmas.