Enough? No, More to Follow

We received a couple more inches of snow this morning. The wind picked up a bit around 9:30 so they canceled school, to get out at 11:00. Except bridge got canceled for today too. :( By 11 the snow had stopped, but the country is probably getting enough wind to blow it around. It is really fluffy. It would have been a real pretty snow, if that was all we had on the ground. 4-8 more inches predicted for tomorrow, with wind! I've got a couple good books and a new site of newspaper articles that fit right into my genealogy files. Let it snow!

Gun for Mara

Our dear son, Dan, had to get a gun for his Grandaughter. (Picture borrowed from Nancy) No doubt Mara has seen it shoot. We knew Dan wouldn't be able to wait for toys like this. He would always make it a point to visit all his friends with kids after Christmas, to check out all the new toys. _____________________ Besides I didn't have any new pictures of my own to put on this week. We are getting more snow. Our old, dirty, snow is now covered with a nice white layer. Probably about 4 inches worth and still falling. It is light and fluffy, but no wind now. It's warm enough for snowballs or snowmen, except all the snow under it would make it difficult to roll decent snowballs.

Ankeny Swimmeet

Today Pop, Ruth and I headed for Ankeny for a swimmeet at the Y. Joan, Jill and Sadie came from CR for the girls to swim at the meet. We watched both of them in a couple events each. First picture - Jill freestyle. Second picture - Sadie freestyle, and third picture - Jill butterfly. And of course the fans! (And a good visit!)-------------------------- After we got back home Ruth went out to visit Mom and then up to see Jerry and Mary Jane. They were babysitting, so she would get to see the kids too. She then got up to see Paul and Kris too, to complete her brief trip.

Mini Cheerleading

Last night was Pink Out night. T-shirts were sold to support breast cancer research. It was also mini cheerleading night. Abbey loves working with the little girls, and loves cheering. I hadn't paid much attention to the words of the wrestling cheers. I loved the one, "Hey Mr. Referee, give us a victory!" I listened to the rest of the games on the radio, as Ruth arrived soon after the performance. We enjoyed celebrating her birthday. Katelin Fields (Pat and Michelle) is the little dark headed girl at the start of the first row. Vicki Weant Lautner's granddaughter is behind Katelin, in the second row.

Needed

This years school pictures for my wall.......

Melting Today with Some Rain

The weather and forecast are the prime topics around here. We finally have melting with rain yesterday, last night and today. It was great to see the ice off the trees and wires this morning. There has been lots of tree damage. Pop raked. I don't think we have raked yard in January before. The twigs are all over. We drove over to Carroll today and they had it worse. It was tops of trees there, whereas it was branches here. They had more and longer power outages too. We enjoyed a visit with Mara and her babysitters, Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Dan. Jenni and T are off celebrating T's 30th birthday. (Notice Mara's little Uggs!)

Warm Place on a Cool Evening

An indoor swim meet in the middle of winter can be almost like a sauna, but it was enjoyable. The three boys from Jefferson that are taking part on the Boone swim team are doing well. There was better light for pictures at the Carroll pool last night, so I have a bunch. They wanted some for yearbook. Now they will have choices to make. I got some of everyone. Pop even went along!