5 day Weekend

Friday school was cancelled again due to the insane cold. It was Minus 26 Friday morning (not wind chill!). The worst part about school being cancelled is that we get phone calls all morning. On a snow/cold day I just want to enjoy the fact that school is cancelled and sleep in. It starts with a phone call from the computer on the house phone around 5:30 a.m., then Brett's cell rings, then my cell (though I keep my cell in the kitchen so it won't wake me), then I got a call from the subbing company because I was supposed to substitute teach so they wanted me to know school was cancelled. All I wanted was sleep, but the phone just kept ringing. Anyway...with another day of cold we decided to meet some friends to see the opening of Hotel For Dogs. It was a WONDERUFL movie! I loved it and all of the kids did too. Take your kids to see it if you haven't already. It was crazy crowded at the 10:15 a.m. showing, guess we all had cabin fever and had the same idea. Here are Cade, Maddi and Jack in front of the theater with their dogs.

A closer up pic. Noticed they are bundled up because we were about to head outside and run to our car. The kids were paranoid they were going to get frost bite from being outside for any amount of time!

After the movie Jack tagged along as we went for Maddi's allergy shots. The kids passed the time with their Nintendo DS games.

Maddi is passing time playing Cooking Mama 2. She was in deep concentration chopping onions or something.

After allergy shots we went to McDonald's to eat lunch and let the kids run around on the play set. They have the Hotel for Dogs toys in the happy meals too so that made the kids happy to get one of the dogs from the movie. From lunch we went to get Maddi's solo costume altered and then we went home and the kids played with friends.

Saturay and Sunday the kids had dance, birthday parties, and we had another get together with neighbors to watch football. We had just the right amount of activitites to keep us busy and not think about how cold it was outside.

Monday (today) is MLK day so the kids are out of school again! We had just gotten adjusted to the routine of school again after winter break and now here we are out of school for 5 days. Hopefully there won't be anymore crazy winter weather and we won't end up going to school all summer to make up for winter!