The GREAT FREEZE

We had two weeks of really cold weather. WE loved it. All of the water around froze and we were out playing on it all that we could. We new it would soon melt and go away. All the neighbors set up a little party each night out front by the canal and had music and treats to eat and we all hung out and talked with each other while our children skated and played on the ice. It as an enjoyable time. I loved it.

It was so nice because if our neighbors saw that we weren't out there they would come knock on our door and let us know they were getting together outside and it really made me feel included and part of the neighborhood. I always new we lucked out and that we were in a good neighborhood but I am just loving it more and more the longer we live here.


The first day the ice was frozen hard enough to try to walk on it. I let the girls go out and try. I was of course with them also. We walked around and made sure it was good and frozen.


We went walking around and found this little duck pond that the ducks kept from freezing. It is funny because the ducks would stand in a group on the ice and then all jump into the water. We called it the Polar duck club.

Down by the store there is a windmill and we never have been able to get a picture of the girls by it because there is a pond of water around it. Well it was frozen soild so I had the girls walk across it so I could get a picture of them with the windmill.


The first is a picture of one of our neighborhood parties outside. The other is the girls out on Ice skates with their friends having fun.


I am so proud of Kaitlyn and Brianna learning how to ice skate. They have never really been ice skating before. They are doing such a good job.


Brooke and I had fun running around togther. I had a little chair I pushed her around on it. She loved it. She thought this ice thing was so much fun!