Oh, the Weather Outside is...

DANG cold! It's been too cold for the school kids to even have recess outside this whole week. Those must be some stir-crazy kids and frazzled teachers! I guess the high today was 9 degrees? Yeah.
You know, it used to be kind of fun looking forward to winter. It was new and exciting to me, and usually the first month of snow was beautiful and kind of cozy-feeling. Now I just dread it, just about as much as I dreaded the beginning of summer in AZ. But thankfully the kids still look forward to snow, and I can't get them out of it until they lose all feeling in their fingers and toes.
Neil finally decided (or had time) to put up the Christmas lights the other night, but called it quits halfway through when he almost fell off the slippery roof for the third or fourth time. I called it quits long before (and I was only supervising from the ground), with four crying, booger-nosed, frost-bitten children in tow. Here they were in their happier state. It's a long, long time till June when we can almost guarantee warm weather...

Red cheeks and noses

He stumbled and fell way too many times, but kept getting back up.

Putting up the lights with his spelunking flashlight.