A SNOW delay and a chance to look back

We were planning to leave Ohio and head to Florida on Tuesday. Monday night a winter storm moved in, leaving four inches of snow and the polar vortex dropped temps below zero. We will have to wait a few days for the roads to be safe for travel.

The kids are excited for a few more days of snow. Daddy took them for a ride on sleds, pulling them around the yard with a rope tied to him.

While we sit here waiting to leave, let's take a look back at our visit....

Cousin Lucy's birthday

The eagle that we saw just down the road from Grandpa's house.

 On Christmas day I told the kids it would be a "Christmas miracle" if they could both put their underwear on all. by. themselves! And they did! A couple days later they pushed me out of the bathroom after their bath saying, "we have surprise a you". A few minutes later they emerged, fully dressed- pants on backwards, wearing each other's shirts, also backwards and Asher somehow managed to have his on upside down (with the neck of the shirt around his belly). But you know what? They did it all. by. themselves! They were so proud of themselves that they wore them this way for the whole day, minus the upside down shirt- I did have to chase him down to turn that over! 

Avery tracing Asher. They ended up turning these into an amazing 

Christmas present to surprise us with. I love them!

Whenever Mommy, Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa had spare time we played 

"the neighborly game". The kids started sitting with us and getting the hang 

of how to play. Soon we can have our own card nights in the RV.

Mommy and Daddy managed to have 3 date nights thanks to Meemaw, Uncle J 

and Aunt Christen. There would have been more, but it's hard to leave these oh so sad faces! :(

After 9 months of living in the RV, this was the first time we convinced them to sleep 

the entire night in their own bed! They have always preferred to sleep on the floor. Silly kids.

The following night, after an extended period of below freezing temps, our pipes froze in the RV, 

so we winterized it and moved into Grandpa and Grandma's house for the remainder of our visit.

My sleeping beauty

A hair-raising visit to COSI

After giving birth to two very premature babies, seeing the babies exhibit, was much more striking 

to me. My kids were born between the stages of the babies that are second and third from the right!

Asher was also intrigued. 

Aunt Christen surprised us with tickets to Shadowbox, a live theatre/music show very similar to SNL. 

She even watched the kids for us so my mom and brother could go with us. A great afternoon!

Shadowbox Scrooged!

We ended 2014 with nearly 4700 miles on the truck since we left Vegas in April.