Catching up

We've had some exciting events since I last posted! On Friday, I'm not sure that the temp ever reached 5 degrees. We received a phone call before 9:00 Thursday evening letting us know that school was being cancelled for Friday. Another day to sleep in! We had made sure to let the pipes drip and keep the cabinets open Thursday night, but I made the mistake of shutting everything down when I got up Friday. So, we had no cold water in the kitchen for nearly 24 hours. I couldn't believe it was so cold it froze during the day! We ran space heaters, but it was just too cold to make a difference until the temps warmed up on Saturday. We also had frozen hoses and a frozen washer motor on Friday. We were able to thaw that out Friday evening, but I haven't attempted to do laundry since then. Needless to say, it's on my to-do list today! My dad's cottage experienced some serious pipes freezing. He believes that something may have burst, so our planned trip up there for yesterday and last night was postponed. Saturday was spent cleaning and getting ready for some friends to come over and hang out in the evening. We loved getting to visit with everyone! Yesterday we headed to church in the morning and JR was an altar server for the first time. After lunch at Applebee's, we came home and settled in for an afternoon and evening of football. It was a perfect day! We all just hung out, and by the time the Steelers game started, we were all dressed in our black & gold. The kids sat and watched the game with us, and JC even stayed awake long enough to see the Steelers advance to the Super Bowl! My in-laws have season tickets for Steelers game, and they won the Steelers ticket lottery for the Super Bowl. They will be headed to Tampa for the big game! We are very excited for them! Today is just a day of getting ready for another week, and maybe even getting ahead on some things. I think the kids will be ready to go back tomorrow after an unexpected five day weekend, and I'm pretty sure I'm ready for them to go back as well! Here we go Steelers!