It has been insanely cold the last couple of days. We have been in the negatives all weekend. Last night at 2am a truck hit a pole and knocked out electricity to our whole neighborhood. When we got up at 8am, it was 50 degrees in our house. It does not take long to get cold when it is -20. We were without power until about noon! Fortunately all is warm now! We are not suppose to get above 32 until Thursday. It will never have felt so good.

Last night was our communities Festival of Lights. We bundled up and headed out.
We stopped by and said hello to Santa at a grocery store.

Jacob wanted to be in the picture by himself (the really dry cold weather wreaks havoc with his curls....not to mention taking hats on and off...)

Then we went to a bank, where the boys made ornaments and had pizza.

Then, if you took your ornament to Dairy Queen, you got a free ice cream cone.  Nothing like ice cream when it is -10.  (I wanted to get a picture of the boys outside eating it standing next to a thermometer, but it was just too cold, your hands hurt after a few seconds.)

From there we ended up at the library where the boys had balloon animals made. At that point, I was over the cold so we headed home.

We also made cookies a few days ago. I was quite impressed with how long the boys sat and decorated them.

The finished product.....

This week both of the older boys have their school music programs. On Friday B and I are continuing for a second year, with what he says is now a tradition, and that is going to the local theatrical Christmas production. (Last year it was The Christmas Carol, where B got scared with the ghost part and then the man threw up behind us.) This year it is White Christmas. Beforehand we will go out to one of his favorite Mexican food restaurants.