Sunday

We had a great day today, starting with a head full of curlers. I ended up having to stay home from church with Emily, so she and I amused ourselves by playing competitive Mario Cart and watching some goofy cartoon Christmas special.

Nate spent the night at Austin's last night and Em wasn't feeling great, so Maddie and I decided to go out and play in all of the new snow and work on our snow fort. Last week, we'd gotten the snow fort started, so we thought we should finish it up by building bigger walls and a roof. We put in cross-beam-supports and branches on top to camoflauge it (I know it's still visible, it's a blue tarp for peat's sake)

We spent about an hour working on it, securing the room and cleaning out the inside. We were pretty proud of it, so we got Nate, Cathie and Emily to come out and check it out also.

After checking out the snow fort, it turned into a famlily snow fight. Ever since football, Nate's gotten pretty accurate with his snowballs and got Cathie a few times before she decided to take Nate down hard (I just know that Will and Monaca are going to have our kids taken away by social services):

With the additional snow, we built up our pile at the bottom of the swingset and continued our base-jumping tradition. Here's Maddie getting some air:

The kids took it to the next level, complete with belly flops and falling straight back. You can see all of the pictures here.

Tonight is Ground Zero, our Youth Church deal. Jason's talking tonight about "The Life and Faith of Johnny Cash", which should be cool.