Snow Days

Arianna, Maya, Zuleikha, Alex, and Shalini

Let's see where to start. Last weekend was a fun weekend. We ended up not having to watch both of our neighbors kids on Thursday as the little boy got sick the night before so we just had Zuleikha. Then Friday we had a good time at Michael's holiday party. It was at the Musuem of Flight. It was really nice. The food was soso, but they had a casino there and that was fun. Michael was a top winner. They were given $1000 (play money of course) he got to $11,700 playing craps. The next morning was Arianna's birthday party. It was a great success. All of the girls had a wonderful, fun time. It was nice having such a small group. There were 5 of them total. They got their makeovers at Club Libby Lu and then afterwards we took them to lunch at Ruby's Diner. Ruby's was great. They let us bring in our own cake and the kept it in the fridge for us and then they lit the candles and came and sang to Arianna. She loved it. Of course she loves being the center of attention.

That evening we drove an hour north to Warm Beach (http://www.warmbeach.com/). This is a Christian conference center and camp. They hold different kinds of christian camps throughout the year there. Well anyways at christmas time they have the Lights of Christmas. They use about 1 million lights to make all kinds of displays. It is beautiful. They have mountains with rivers, christmas scenes, etc. They offer train rides, horse drawn wagon rides, visits with Santa, and hot homemade donuts. I think the donuts are the main draw :). The line was probably about 45 minutes long and you are limited to 3 bags - each contain 6 donut holes. It was fun, but very cold. It had started snowing that night so it was fun, but Ethan refused to wear his gloves so he was getting cold.

This week has been a little crazy. They cancelled school on Wednesday even though there was so snow. They cancelled it because of the threat of snow - crazy!!!! We ended up not getting snow until Wednesday evening. Then we got about 4-5 inches or so. Thus they cancelled school on Thursday. Arianna had a great time playing in the snow with her friends, but she gets bored hanging out at home. She decided she doesn't like snow days - she would rather to go to school so she can play with friends all day instead of having to hang out at home and dealing with brother :). There was lots of ice so they also decided to close schools today. She she doesn't go back until Jan 5th. Because of these snow days they have taken away some vacation days. They were supposed to have the 5th off, but now they go that day. Then in april they were to have the friday before easter off, but now they go and then there were also supposed to have the tuesday after memorial day off, but they will go that day now too.

Tonight is supposed to be a Parent's night out at Ethan's school. His school is open today so we will see if they keep that. We hope so because both kids were set to go and we need to finish christmas shopping!!! Michael worked from home yesterday, but went into work today.

Another nasty storm is coming Saturday night with snow and freezing rain and winds. It is supposed to hit hard on Sunday into monday.

Well, the kids want to play so here are some pictures of them in the snow and Arianna's party