a few snow pics

We got some snow late last week, which led to Amanda running around our yard like a 4 year old, making a snowman and a snow angel. I had fun too, but mainly in teasing her and throwing a few snowballs at her. Seeing how all the wooded areas in the neighborhood looked in the snow was kind of cool, and reminded us both of the Chronicles of Narnia.

The only downside to the snow was how cold it was the next few days. Walking outside 40 minutes before I'm supposed to preach and it's 19 degrees just isn't natural.

Here are a few pictures:

three wise . . . whats?

Well, apparently Amanda was listening this morning when I talked about how we don't appreciate the three wise men enough and should pay attention to them and to their journey following the star.

This, however, wasn't exactly what I was thinking of when I talked about remembering them:

Oh well. Not the first time someone's done something after a sermon and I've been left scratching my head.

Amanda vs. the fly (and the parsonage)

So we've had this fly in our house for a few days, which occasionally buzzes around and drives Amanda crazy. Before today we'd made several attempts to swat it, but to no avail. The whole fly thing kind of reminded me of the episode in Sportsnight where Casey keeps hearing a fly and no one else did (except that I did hear the fly about half of the times that Amanda did).

In any case, the battle went to a whole new level today. While I was outside cleaning out the shopvac after its war with Christmas tree needles, I returned to Amanda saying "I did a very bad thing."



Apparently, the fly tried to do a WCW-style tag team move, tagging the decorative woodworking above the sink. Unfortunately, the fly never released the tag (or expected more movement out of the woodworking). In any case, there was one death and a serious injury.

So here is a recreation of the crime scene based on eyewitness testimony:



There have been no arrests, but a person of interest in the case was heard saying "I think I need a Ferrero Rocher after that."