old man winter is here!

When Mother Nature gives you snow..... make snow cream!!! :)

Old man winter is here with a vengeance! It snowed for over 24 hours straight, starting Thursday afternoon. It's like living inside a snow globe! Sean shoveled 3 times... again that wet, HEAVY stuff. I'm guessing we have 8 inches? The boys still had school, as normal on Friday morning... Fine with me, it's a long weekend anyway (Monday off for Martin Luther King Day). Anyway, after a dinner of homemade chicken and vegetable soup, we made snow cream for dessert. Cullen helped me scoop up a large bowl of fresh snow and we added a little vanilla and a can of sweetened condensed milk... and voila! Snow cream. :) It was actually pretty good! I've already got some homemade "sno cone" syrup in the fridge, ready for round 2 of snow.

This weekend should be a fun one... today we are going tubing/sledding with our friends, the Wilsons. Crock Pot has got some Potato Corn Chowder cooking... Then after church tomorrow, we may head up to Niles, MI (7 miles North) for their Winter Ice Festival. "It’s a whole weekend of ice carving, ice fights, ice skating, ice sculptures at every corner, even an ice bar, and what else, ice cream! When it’s time to warm up, head into the YMCA for some hot chocolate, or do the “Chili Crawl” chili cook-off! It’s sure going to be an ice-tastic weekend!"

I guess you can say we are embracing the weather!! :)