Tuesday, February 10, 2015

natural coolness

Just a few random highlights from our house.  First, my one of my amazing son's cool inventions: a "Lego Mini-figure Factory".  He set up all his mini-figure heads, hats/hair, shirts/torsos, pants/legs and, accessories in this cool little organized thingy.  The shirt/torso thing is a carousal - it spins around.  The pants/legs are in three pull-out drawer type things (see second picture).  It is all pretty sweet.  And I love his creativity.  It makes me super proud!

Last week when Eric picked me up from work, we saw the most beautiful sight.  Unfortunately the camera (at least in my feeble hands) did not at all capture how amazing it was.  It looked like all the tree branches were covered with solid crystal.  The sun was shining on them and they were icy.  It was an amazing glow.  It was completely gorgeous. 




My sister took this picture with her phone and it is way better than any I took!  Plus the area is nicer.

The other bit of coolness was Lucy in the hot tub.  She stayed out there, in the hot tub, for an hour and a half, just playing.  It was great.  Anyway, the steam turned into frost on her hair.  It looked pretty great.




And as an aside, something not so cool.  I may not take any pictures, and it would be strongly preferred if I didn't say anything about this at all…. but I'll just mention this for posterity sake.  Cade broke his clavicle on Saturday (Feb. 7) while tobogganing (or is it sledding?…. still don't know which is the proper term for what).  He doesn't like to talk about it much even though he is a cool tough guy.  But that's all I can say about that.

quinsy two

About two weeks ago or so, they were back at it.  Building another quinsy.  Actually, it is more like a fort, but quinsy sounds way more cool.  And I'm all about cool.  Eric did most of the grunt work, but the kids helped out a fair bit.


Apparently this is very hard work.  Mia needed a little breather.



Cade used a bottle of water, with a hole put in the cap, to squirt out water onto the structure.  And old ketchup bottle, with a hole already in place, was used too.  But it is way better (and cooler) to make your own.  Water turned to ice and made it nice and solid!





I suppose I should really take a picture of the final product.  They even made a sliding door with a piece of plywood.  Pretty sweet.  I mean cool.
For the last little while it was looking a little gnarly and it has been quite mild and so everything gets soft and mushy.  But today we have had a full day of solid snowing (no blizzard - not a hard snow, unfortunately) so now it will have a nice fresh layer of beautiful white powder on it.  Lovely.