Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6.5 years

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Chancery: “Asher didn’t believe me this morning when I told him we were going to church.”

 

Asher: “Well, we haven’t gone the last 2 Sundays, so I just figured we wouldn’t be going today either!”

 

Chancery: “That was just because we had so much snow, but there’s only a little bit today, so we’re going to church.  Hooray!”

 

Chancery: “I bet Digby will miss us when we go!”

We Have a Long Way To Go

I took some pictures to commemorate the First Day of Spring!  Can you feel it?  The warmth of summer that’s just around the corner?  The feeling of sand between your toes as you read a book at the beach?  Nope, neither can I!

I put together a few before & afters.  Will we get from this to the nice green, need to mow your lawn stage by the end of June?

Snow

I don’t know what else to call this post.  I just decided to take pictures of the snow at it’s worst.

This is the side of our garage.  Under all that snow on the right side is my strawberry patch.  It will be interesting to see how my plants fared.  Hopefully we’ll have really big, juicy strawberries from all the extra moisture!

This is the front walkway

 

Peeking from behind all that snow is the top of our front door!

The view of the house across the street from the front door

 

The sidewalk to the back deck.  The tree that the kids climb in is just to the left of the path.  The snow is currently 6 feet up on the tree.

Where Are We?

You might be saying to yourself, “Sherilyn is normally so good about posting Sunday Pictures, but there were none yesterday.  Are they on a trip?”  Well, it is March Break, but we didn’t go anywhere, & even if we wanted to, there’d be no getting out now!

  We had another blizzard yesterday, & if I took Sunday pictures, you would have seen us playing Mario Kart & watching Star Wars.

 

Today it is still snowing & blowing, but PChad decided it was time to assess the snow drifts.

 

There’s a door just to the right of the wood pergola, but we couldn’t open it this morning!

 

This is our back deck, it had no snow at all on it yesterday morning…

 

Maybe we should take the snowflakes off the door, they seem to be attracting real snowflakes!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6.5 years

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Asher: “We’re trying to get a picture with all 3 of us looking.  It’s like when Mummy started taking Sunday Pictures of us, she could never get a good one of both of us looking & smiling!”

 

Chancery: “Look over there, Digby!  Look at Mummy!”

 

Asher: “No, don’t go to Mummy, look at Mummy!”

 

Asher: “Now you’re looking at me, just turn your head a little & look at Mummy!”

 

Chancery: “Not like that, silly dog!”

 

Asher: “Great job, Digby!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6.5 years

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Chancery: “Here I sit, once again, waiting for Asher.”

 

Asher: “I was just trying to finish building my Lego car.”

 

Chancery: “I am glad you finally showed up, Asher.  I have a great idea.”

Chancery: “Shhh, here’s the plan…”

 

 Open your eyes, Chancery!

 

 No, Asher, open your eyes!

 

Chancery: “Wasn’t that funny, Asher?”

 

Asher: “Yes, Chancery, that was a pretty funny trick!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6.5 years

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Chancery: “You might be asking, ‘Is Asher sick today?’.”

 

Chancery: “No, he’s just being grumpy!”

 

Chancery: “So Mummy said he didn’t have to be in the pictures if he didn’t want to be.”

 

Chancery: “I don’t know why anyone would turn down pictures.  I adore them!”

Snow Storm “Neptune”

We have had a lot of snow in the past 2 days… 70cm, (or 27.5”).  They pulled the plows off the roads yesterday at noon, & have already cancelled school & government offices for tomorrow.  Everyone headed outside for a bit this morning.  Chad was busy snow blowing the driveway, while the older boys worked on the back deck.  And while they were outside in the snow, the littles & I were inside defrosting the freezer, or playing with snow inside!

  The car was a bit buried…

It took almost an hour to get one small path down to the road since the drifts are more than twice as high as the blower!

 

This was the back deck this morning…

 

And after the boys got it all shovelled off.  Normally there’s a 4 foot drop to the ground off the deck, but the snow is currently 4 feet taller beside the deck (the poor bushes will be in rough shape when the spring comes!)

 

I got myself stuck in a drift up to my hip & had to crawl out.  Meanwhile Digby was trying to bite my gloves off thinking I was playing a silly game.  Asher got himself stuck in the snow under the lilac tree.  He was standing straight up, the snow was up to his armpits & he could not move.  I had to help dig him out, & he ended up losing a boot, so we had to dig his boot out too!

 

Monday is traditionally Dominoes Pizza night, but unfortunately due to the snow, they are closed!  Now we’ll probably starve.

Doggie Dreams

Digby sleeps in PChad & my room, & often during the night Digby dreams.  He makes little ‘bruff, bruff’ sounds which are cute, but if they go on too long, can be annoying since they keep me from sleeping.  PChad has always been a hard sleeper, & is never really bothered by Digby’s dreams.

 

The other night Digby was having some loud dreams, & barking full on.  At breakfast PChad & I were telling the kids about his loud barking in the night, & Chancery asked, “Did you hear it too, Daddy?”

 

PChad: “Yes, it was pretty loud.”

 

Chancery: “Wow! It must have been to wake you up!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Asher: “Mummy downloaded some new games onto my 3DS, & I am so excited about them!”

Asher: “She got me the old, old, Super Mario Land that was on GameBoys a long, long time ago.”

Chancery: “Do you suppose that if the games are that old, that Mummy is too?”

Asher: “I don’t know, but I’m also really excited about the Wario game she put on here!”

Chancery: “And if you are so busy playing your games, then you won’t mind if I go play with your train tracks, right, Asher?”

Asher: “Well, I shouldn’t play video games all day.  Perhaps we could go play trains together!”

Chancery: “That sounds great, Asher!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

********************************************** Chancery: “I am sick today, so I’m not coming to church.”

 

Asher: “Hey, there’s Digby!”

 

Asher: “Digby, come up here!”

 

Digby: “Woof, woof.”

 

Digby: “Grrr woof!”

 

Chancery: “I love you, Digby!”

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Captions by Chancery