Beginning half of February

Here is Daniel in his snow fort. He is well supplied with wood for heating and cooking.

Matthew had to do his Air Cadets online again. Not so exciting, but what can you do? Well, he can play some games or check his email while waiting...it seems like they did a lot of waiting.

Matthew got into the fort building fad.

We sure had a lot of snow! Nathan had to help out with the plowing a number of times. He's got more experience and manages the go-cart better than anyone else.

The younger three kids treated our tenants with a snowman to look at out their front window. I didn't approve of it, so they only got to make the one snowman--our tenant enjoyed it though!

Matthew plowing again...such a lot of snow! What a winter!!

Why sit at your desk when you can sit on it? (Is it just homeschooled kids that don't know what chairs are for??)

I cut Evelyn's hair. It was too much work to keep the long curls from getting really tangled. I miss the curls, but I don't miss the mess (or brushing it when it was a disaster!)

Now Melanie convinces her to have ponytails or other cute hairstyles, and Evelyn usually lets Melanie do it up. We played Blokus together one evening when she was bored. We both had to be two colors, because it doesn't work to just play with two colors. But Evelyn is an expert at playing games while being multiple players. :)

Reading a still a common activity here.

Boys in books! (If a comic is worthy of calling a book.)

Unfortunately my updated phone is much slower at taking photos, so I can't always get the casual shots I am used to snapping as I discretely walk by. :)

Matthew's fort is getting pretty high! He made it really big.

Home renos made easy: if your home is a snow fort, all you need is a shovel and a good imagination!

Matthew decided to get serious with this snow shifting business. If you can fill a whole trailer full then you can really get a lot of snow to the wall...way more than a shovel full at a time!

The kids really did take advantage of the bounty of snow this winter!

I was pretty impressed with the size of Evelyn's fort. I'm pretty sure she did this all on her own.

Jennifer wasn't much in to building, but she made lots of tracks throughout the property. She was often around on the far end when Melanie and I came back from the golf course.

Matthew bought himself a used EV3 robot...which is a robot meant to work with Lego, and it works with the lego programming software.

The robot looks pretty cool looking too. Matthew got it to do a number of different things...but quickly got tired of it.

Melanie had another quilting project lined up to make. This one had a big centerpiece to work around...as a thank you gift to our neighbour for riding lessons, and for also all the years of having a job right next door(even if it is scooping out stalls)!

Lining up the diamonds to wrap around the corner was more complicated than when it was first envisioned. Good thing there were lots of people with ideas to help out!

Yup, that's how you should do it Melanie. (It's a lot easier to just move around pieces of fabric and see where it looks good, than to actually do all the finicky sewing if you ask me!)