Weekend Wrap Up

I had a very busy day at work on Friday, so I made sure to fuel properly :) I had a long to do list that had to be done before our expected weather rolled in over the weekend and we had inevitable closings this week.

Friday night, we met Darrin's cousins for dinner. We did the same thing last year and have found that January is a good time for this big group to get together. 

I had to come straight from work and we were 25 minutes late, but we made it! 

We were projected to get 2-27" inches of snow, sleet, and/or freezing rain. The forecast was ALL over the place.

We planned for all of the above and even a possible ice storm where we could lose electricity for days. I woke up at 3am on Saturday morning and there was nothing outside. At 6am, it looked like this.

It came down pretty much all weekend and Carson was here for it! 

He has played outside endlessly all weekend. 

Several of the neighbor kids are in the neighborhood only half the time. I am so thankful they are here this week. It's funny to me that Carson is the youngest and he drove everyone around all weekend. He's going to be a good driver one day. He can already drive the side by side better than me. 

The four of us have been out everyday playing in it too.

I bet he played outside for at least 8 hours this weekend in the freezing cold. He was living his best life. 

The side by side has been exactly what we hoped it would be for times like this.  

This looks like Darrin is contemplating his life choices and counting down until we were ready to go inside. I think his hands were just cold because he had on the wrong gloves. He also had on my scarf. There is no shame when it comes to snow clothes.

We found an open field and they did boy things on the toys. I just watched and prayed for no injuries. Literally.

We have played a ton of games. We take turns picking the game. I'll have to share all our favorite games sometime. This one is called Qwixx. Super fun and easy.

We've made tons of good food. I have finally perfected shrimp hibachi at home.

We had some steak and salmon too. I don't like salmon, but they love it. I randomly put some raw veggies out while we were cooking and they were gone in seconds. I need to do that more often.

Miles cooked the streaks and they were perfect. Secretly I had a hard time giving up the control but I reminded myself that I want him to know how to do this stuff one day. He nailed it.

We finished off the weekend by watching two great football games. I love watching the NFL playoffs because I love football, but also because that means we are getting closer to baseball season...the best time of the year!!