A little something special from Feb 16th

Hey Marsh! What a great idea!  This shall be the grand blog awakening.


This past week we had our monthly temple trip to Detroit.  As always, we try to make the 3 hour trip fun for the kids too.  While Josh did an endowment session the kids and I had second breakfast in the waiting room of the temple and were greeted by the temple matron and she brought the temple president in to visit with us too.  She got pictures of the Detroit temple and shared them with each of the kids for their very own and then shared some of their Valentines treats with them.  We then used our magic bag to create some thank you cards.  I was so impressed when Faith wrote on her card "Thank you for the work you do here.  It is the best work."  Viv's card included 'service' and 'love' in two hearts and then a lot of coloring.  Danny drew a picture of the temple inside the heart on his page and was a bit frustrated that he was not getting Moroni's trumpet quite right.  The President and Matron loved their cards.

While I did initiatory Josh took the kids to a nearby library to look at some Calvin and Hobbes books.  On our car rides the kids like to ask us of stories from when we were kids.  They were asking specifically about memories of snow when we were kids since we were driving through patches of white out storms up to Detroit.  One snow story led to then next, here are a few memories you all might share:

The year that the snow fell so need that Dad asked us to go up on the roof and 'shovel' the snow off, which just became sliding with a pile of snow at your feet off the roof.  It was so high next to the garage and shed that I slid off the roof on top of the green swing set bar!

The year Marsh and Jeff created the ice luge sledding runs at the cabin complete with a tunnel made of an old card table surrounded by snow.

Yukon Ho! extreme ice hunting with Jeff as the captain and Nancy as the apprentice.  I believe the expeditions started the year we had to traverse the open waters of the river to get to the most perfect ice in between the islands of the main river. (Yukon Ho! is the reason the kids got piqued on Calvin and Hobbes because we were describing the adventures of Calvin and Hobbes to them a bit).

After the temple in the afternoon we went to the Henry Ford Museum to see a lego exhibit of a man who has created all the worlds' largest buildings out of common lego pieces!  Impressive.