Five for Friday

1. My oldest has a serious love for all things snow. Do you think it is because we deprived her of snow for three years and our first winter back in Iowa was one of the snowiest on record? Hmmmm something to ponder. She is outside working on her fort right now! She asked her sister if she wanted to go out...but sissy said we could just watch cartoons?

2.I was snuggling with Cece the other night and thought I definitely want to remember this. The way she whispers to herself when she is falling asleep. How soft and smooth her fingers are. How she shares just a bit of her blanky with you to make you feel better. The way she laughs with her whole body and you just can't help but laugh too. I love every bit of her three year old self.

3. I currently have a major love for Peanut Butter. Peanut Butter toast and Peanut Butter sandwiches make me very happy! Hawaiian Pizza is also on my list of current loves. hmmmm.

4. Not to brag.............but we have two amazing little girls. AND apparently we aren't the only ones who think that. Last Sunday after church we went along with Tim to work for treatments and lunch at Hickory Park. When we sat down the girls sat on one side of the booth and we sat on the other. We laughed that this might not end well. However, they totally rocked it. They sat still, shared food, didn't bug each other and well just behaved very very well. When the family across the aisle from us got up to leave the father handed Ellie and Cece each a dollar bill for being so good! He said someone did that for his girls when they were little and he always thought that was so cool and wanted to do it for our girls. Ellie and Cece were pretty proud of themselves and Tim and I were WAY proud of them too! It is really neat to have someone 'pat you on the back' like that. Definitely need to do that for others down the road!

5. Today we had an assembly at school to donate the money the students raised during our Winter Olympics before Christmas break. Our goal was $500 in 4 days.We smashed our goal and raised $1325! It was amazing watching those kids get so excited about giving to others in need in our community. We donated the money to a local charity....the director was so overwhelmed by the amount of money she could only mutter "that is more than I ever could have imagined" Needless to say I teared up! Very proud of my students!