Our wintry week

Saturday

It's a cold Saturday here, currently 8 degrees, feels like negative 4!  The sun is shining, so it looks much warmer than that.  I haven't stepped out there yet.

Here are a few pictures of the sky I took last week.

Last Sunday (9th) we had an ice storm.  Our church service was cancelled.  We had a relaxing day at home enjoying the beauty of the ice.

And now for some pictures of this little man in the house!

How cool are we??

He watches the song, "No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and shakes his finger.

One evening we were relaxing in the living room (the adults, that is) and Dick got this picture of him ready to pounce on us like a cat!  

He looked so adorable in this outfit on Saturday morning. 

On Friday evening we watched grandson J'von's basketball game against my alma mater, Lancaster Mennonite.  His team (Columbia High School) won AGAIN.  They have had no losses this entire season.  On Saturday they played another game and won again.  Their record is 12/0!  The Lancaster newspaper had some amazing pictures the following day.  J'von is #2.

Like Frank always says, "Remember the name!"

Monday

Last evening the storm that was coming up from the south reached us.

During the night we got some rain mixed in with the snow, so this morning it was a heavy mess.  Dick used the snow blower before he left for work, and later Alex shoveled everything else.  Destiny and I both had appointments today, but we cancelled them.  It has been snowing lightly and blowing most of the day.  

Look who is thirteen today!!  Austin Mitchell Stauffer!!  I cannot believe it!  We lived in Lancaster County in 2009 when he was born, but nothing was stopping us from making the trip to State College to see him that day!  How we had earnestly prayed for Lori to get pregnant after several years of failure and treatments!  I will never forget this first glimpse of him when we arrived.  It was a Holy moment seeing the goodness of God.  

Because of the snow coming, Dick and I went over to their place yesterday afternoon to take him his card and gift and the chocolate chip cookies I had made for him.  

Tuesday

And now it's Tuesday morning.  Gotta get this finished up!  

I'm going to end here with a video of a song I sang for our prelude on Sunday morning.  It's one from the 80's that I used to lead at Grace Community Fellowship in Manheim, and I have always loved it. Just a simple cry of the heart from the Psalms. My dear friend Cheryl in Ohio has breast cancer, and at this point there do not seem to be any good solutions.  Singing some of these favorite songs for her is a simple thing I can do. And of course I pray - for her and for several dear loved ones facing cancer and experiencing treatments and side effects.