Snow Magetton 2022

Once again Jakob left for a business trip and KC decided to throw down some freak weather. Last month Jakob too the company jet to a meeting and they had to drive two hours out of town because the wind here was so crazy. It was terrifying having him travel through that. I was so relieved when he got home. This time, snowmagatton.

Usually when we hear we're getting 4-8 inches of snow in KC we say, "I'll believe it when I see it." This time they weren't playing around. It dumped and it dumped HARD!!!!

Those are the bushes outside of our house completely covered in snow. We got close to a foot of snow. Naturally this completely shut down all of the airports leaving Jakob stranded in Alabama.

They decided to try and drive to Georgia to get a flight in there but quickly realized they were shutting down all flights. So they drove the 13 hours home.

 

 The snow stopped as fast as it had started so I decided to head out and shovel the driveway so that Jakob could get in. Nothing like a good ol Canadian work out. My back hurt so good the next few days! 

And he's home!!! Thank heavens. He rolled in at 3:00 in the morning. I was so dang happy to have him home!

 We couldn't let all of this snow go to waste. While i shoveled yesterday the kids played and squished all of the snow so it wasn't going to work for igloo's but we could absolutely go tobogganing. 

Snow is magical! 

I mean look at those smiling faces!!

I love a baby in a snow suit.

It was a great storm and once Jakob was home, my heart was so dang happy! This also kicked off the start of a six day long weekend due to snow days. The kids haven't had much school this year so far.

Valentines Week

 

In keeping with tradition I tried to keep Valentine's Week very low key.  My favorite part was that E surprised us with little things all week and made her brothers fuse bead crafts for each day too. She is the sweetest.

Day 1: You are Jaw-some.

 

 

Day 2: You're my favorite fish in the sea.

Day 3: You're such a gem. 

Four our activity Sprout and I baked the cake.

Day 4: Being You're Mama is such a treat! 

We had Root Beer Floats (You make my heart float.)

Day 5: Good Friends are like a treasure at the end of a Rainbow.

We did our fancy dinner for our activity. 

Daddy's days were wildly inappropriate as per the norm.

I started recreating the pillows I made for Jakob when we first got married. 

Our little Valentines corner.

 

We went to the dollar store to get some fun balloons. WE then Ran to Wal Mart and I opened the trunk forgetting all about the balloons and they all flew away. Everyone was broken hearted so we went back to the dollar store to get some more.

E got us little heart-o-grams from school. So dang cute!

Work smarted not harder!

Since Daddy was out of town for Valentines day we had pink heart shaped pancakes and they were delightful. It was a fun and busy week!

Valentines Day

Daddy was going to be out of town fro Valentine Day so we decided to have our fancy dinner on Friday Night.

Everyone dressed up despite hating every second of it. Jakob made pork loin, veggies and potatoes. So dang yummy!

Lots of pictures and snuggles afterwards. 

Saturday Night Jakob and I went on a date. It was so wonderful getting out just us two again. It's been awhile since we've done anything. I got us the Adventure Challenge book for Christmas full of date night ideas. This date we had to go to three different places for appetizers, entree and dessert. It was Valentines weekend and everything was pretty booked, so we cheated a bit. We got out appetizer from Hy-Vee.

Our dinner from Burg and Barrel and dessert from Unforked. It was so much fun. We even used accents at Unforked. 

Valentines Sunday.

It was a wonderful Valentines Weekend.

Valentines Boxes

 

Our weekend was so busy that we waited until after Church to make the kids Valentines boxes. Bad idea on my behalf. Usually I have all the supplies that we'd need but I was running short on several key items. 

 duke really wanted to make Picachu and I just didn't have enough yellow anything to make it happen. I felt so bad. Duke was awesome and told me it would be okay to re make Patrick Mahomes (Roo ripped it apart two day before.) We took off the old head and made him a new body. He looked awesome!

 E wanted to do Stitch and once again Mama's supplies were lacking. We made it work with an assist from Daddy.

Oh gosh I love these kids and the grace they have with me! Their boxes turned out awesome!

Happy Valentines Eve!