Snowy Day!

We woke up to snow today!! I was shocked and the girls were excited! I let them get all their winter gear on and go out and play for a few minutes. They had fun until I went in - they sure do like an audience! It melted by the time church was over, so I was glad I'd let them play. Good thing I got out the winter clothes yesterday and Steve changed the furnace filters and cleaned out the vents!

On Friday, we had our friends, the Lights come to visit. I used to babysit the girls about 2 years ago and it was fun to see them again! I watched the girls while Ben and Carolyn went to a wedding. I don't know how much Emily and Ella remember them, but they had fun playing together!
This week was Emily's first school conference. The kindergarten teachers did more of a walking report card and we walked around to different stations and Emily would show us what she was learning. I already know what Emily knows and she's known all those things since she was 3. But I was glad for a few minutes to see Emily in her element and chat with the teacher a bit. Emily is loving school though and is very excited to be reading and writing. Yesterday, she was upstairs writing words in a notebook and needed to spell the word "cow." So she turned on the TV to a show called Word World that she knew had cow in it. Pretty resourceful, isn't she! We went to celebrate after the conference and got our last (and first) ice cream cones of the season.

So I've been enjoying watching Steve's shopping abilities lately. About 4 weeks ago, I did the grocery shopping and it wore me out for the rest of the day. I complained to Steve about it and he offered to do the grocery shopping from now on. So the first week he came back with bag after bag of goodies!!! So after I chewed him out and wrote a more detailed list the next week, I sent him out again. This was in the morning before General Conference. That day he came back with nothing because he was fed up with the checkout lanes! Yesterday he tried again and was perfect! Good thing I didn't give up on him!

Poor Steve is sick today - the last in our family to get it. Probably from the trauma of shopping yesterday. Guess it's a good day since I got him to do household chores yesterday and tomorrow he should be able to return to work!