We awoke to about a foot of new snow outside (have I mentioned that I’m tired of winter already? Well, I AM!), and later got a phone call that church had been canceled for today. Wow! I only remember church being canceled one other time, and that was when we were newly married and living in Provo. I think we actually went to church and there was nobody there. This time we must be more loved, because we got about 4 phone calls to let us know that there would be no church. So we can shovel out. Our snowblower died an early death this year, so we have been at the mercy of our neighbors to help us clear our many feet of snow this winter. Thankfully, our neighbor to the north has a four wheeler with a plow, and he frequently plows our driveway, and our neighbor to the south just bought himself a new snowblower, and he’s cleared our front walk a few times. I doubt we’ll be that lucky today. Ugh. We’ll wait for the snowplows to come and stay safely inside.
For our “church”, we’ve stayed in and watched the rebroadcast of President Hinckley’s funeral. It was a beautiful funeral and there have been many wonderful tribute programs on this past week. It’s a nice substitute for church.
Last night we went to see the Blue Man Group. It was GREAT! Although this isn’t video from this exact concert, we saw something like this
Although the band that was with them was good, I thought they drowned out the percussion of the Blue Man Group, and wished there was less band and less singing. It was a fun date for us, and I’d pay that much for tickets again anytime!
Yesterday we celebrated Jenna’s birthday. It was a fun little party, even though only 3 of her friends came. I guess we should have invited more than 8 people. It was a fairy party, and we had wings for all the girls (and the boy) who came. 
We made butterflies, 
, had a treasure hunt, and even painted fairy fingernails and toenails. 
I had a few games planned that we didn’t do because there were only a few kids, but we watched Fairytopia and had the ever popular whacking of the pinata. 
And with pinatas being the cheap things that they are, the handle quickly broke off, and we had to call in the pinata repair man to rig up the pinata. 
I had the idea to make a forest of toadstools for the cake. I seem to always overestimate my abilities when it comes to cake decorating, and this was no exception. What began as “good idea” quickly turned frustrating, but I just went with it. It’s a good think I was going for the mushroomy look, because the little toadstools were less than pretty. Jenna did all the decorations on the top with “fairy dust” and she thought they were pretty, so I guess it was a success. Once we put on the fairies, I thought it actually looked cute.
Here’s one of the fairies close up.
The girls got to take their fairies home, along with lots of candy from the pinata. I’m glad that it turned out well, and Jenna had a fun party. And I’m glad it’s over.
So, that’s a weekend update for you. I hope that wherever you are, you are warm and dry inside. And could we please stop it with the snowing?
I love the fairy toadstool cupcakes — those are adorable!
I pulled my kids out of their warm beds this morning, hollered (who, me?) at them to get out the door in time for 9am church, almost got stuck FIVE times just getting to the building and then walked in the foyer to have the bishop greet us and say “church is cancelled”. WHAT? I about lost it. I mean, if I’m there, then shouldn’t someone entertain me or take my children for a couple hours???? I guess the stake pres cancelled it just seconds before 9am – ugh!
That’s funny……we got no snow this morning. It is starting to snow now, however (5:00). The party sounds fun, the cupcakes are really cute, and I’m glad you could go to the concert. Did you have a chance to watch the funeral at all?
Did you make those cute fairies? Very fun!
We hardly got ANY snow. I LOVE snow. I wish it had poured and poured here today.
The party looks like it was a hit!
My brother was at the same concert last night…too funny.
I only remember church being cancelled once in my life for any reason. We had about 3 feet of snow if I recall.
MY kids would love it if church were cancelled due to snow. It’s hard to imagine that happening even with all of the snow we’ve received.
Darling pictures but is it sacriligious to admit that I pray for at least one snow day from church a year? 😉
Our church was cancelled too. Apparently the snow plow got stuck in our church parking lot. The two wards that meet before us (another Stake) cancelled and sent the plow home, not realizing that our Stake President wasn’t so anxious to cancel. By the time our ward figured it out, we had to cancel too. We were invited to attend another ward in our stake. Lucky me, it was my sharing time too. We were going to talk about Pres. Hinckley and I was still a blubbering mess so I didn’t have to talk while it was still so fresh and I was still so emotional. Maybe by next week I will be better.
I second the vote for no more snow. Our snowbanks are taller than I am and I’ve had to pick up my son from the next city over. If the buses can’t make it, my chances aren’t good!
The party looks like a big hit – i love the fairies and cupcakes!
I think our ward was the only one that wasn’t canceled. Even my friend up the street had theirs canceled, but we had to go–the roads were awful, and parking was so scary!