Winter fun

We are surviving the winter- thanks in large part to an amazing 2 week get-away in Feb to visit my folks in sunny Morocco! Here are some pictures from our life since we've been back.

C: That was Lucy looking out of her nook window. There is snow and icicles and all kinds of stuff of snow.

L: This is the icicles before we were going to knock them down. There were so many of them that we decided to knock them down. My dad got a shovel but the shovel wasn't hard enough, so he got a hammer and he did most all of them.

C: That is still the icicles when Papa had to hammer the icicles down. (Note from E: I really liked this artistic shot)

L: This is me sitting in our snow cave that we made in the side of a mountain. It took a lot of work to build it.

L: This is me and my sister Clara, sitting on top of the snow mountain that the snow plow made. I was the one who was breaking big mounds of icicles so we could have more of them, cause we were playing a game and they were treasures. And we had a little hole where we put the treasures in, and that's what we're doing right now. My sister's putting them in but I'm looking.

C: That is Lucy, my sister and she's in the ice cave that we're almost done with, and our footprints are on the top of the roof and we've been climbing up there for a long time.

C: That is me. I am sitting on the heater box- I don't know what that is, but it says 333. I was comfortable- Mama said that I could rest on the snow, but I decided no, that I could sit on the heater box that says 333.

L: This the back of my head. I got a new hair book from Grandma Judy, and this is a cool braid called the fishtail. And my mom did it. It was her first time but she did really good.

L: This hairdo is called a flip ponytail. First, you start with a ponytail. Then you make a hole, reach under and pull all the ponytail out and then it makes a cool pattern.

C: That is my hair. It is a fishtail and I like it.

C: That is me and our neighbor Afrah. (Note from E: Afrah's making bunny ears).

L: This is our big friend, Blizzard Snowman (that's what we named him). And that's my sister in the pink coat and snowpants and mitten and hat (there's a lot of pink on her). And this is our neighbor Afrah, again, making bunny ears on the snowman. We made it just in one day, and the nose is one of the carrots from our refrigerator, and my mom's old hat and the scarf is my mom's old scarf, but she let us use it. And we found pebbles in the backyard for the eyes and mouth. And as you see, it snowed a lot, and we made a snowman before, but then there was a big blizzard and the snow was too fluffy to make a big snowman and we needed sticky snow. And then there were other little snowstorms and that helped us get sticky snow and then we made the other one right here in the picture.