New Adventures

Yes, there's a first time for everything. Under the crazy wonderful onslaught of snow we received this week came time off for new adventures. While home bound for the week we did get to hitch our first ride on a sled on the back of a quad. I'm sure there are loads of people that have felt the spray of snow as they were whipped around a corner behind a quad, but this was our very first time (thank you Mark). What a way to experience the snow. If you haven't ever tried this particular brand of snow-fun you should definitely make fast friends with the owner of a quad.

Chesterton Quote of the Day

"To love anything is to see it
at once under lowering skies of danger.
Loyalty implies loyalty in misfortune."

-G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

Let ot Snow!

Our snow finally arrived Tuesday in the wee hours of morning. The girls woke up to no school and the loads of snow they had been praying for. We spent a good chunk of the day sledding down our big hill over and over. Needless to say they slept pretty well after their adventures in the wide world of stark and gorgeous white.

Torrey unaware that she's about to get pelted by an incoming snowball.

The happy sledders

Going down our big hill.

Going up our big hill

Is it odd that both my girls are still posing while using a friend as a human shield?

Chesterton Quote of the Day

"...White is a color. It is not a mere absence of color, it is a shining and affirmative thing: as fierce as red, as definite as black. When (so to speak) your pencil grows red hot, it draws roses; and when it grows white hot, it draws stars. And one of the two or three defiant verities of the best religious morality - of real Christianity, for example - is exactly this same thing. The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment: it means a plain and positive thing like the sun which on has either seen or not seen, Chasitity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many coulors, but He never paints so gorgeously - I had almost said gaudily - as when He paints in white." 

 -G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

Catching Up {again}

Ok, here goes... I've been snapping pictures over the past couple of weeks, but have been behind on getting them posted here on the blog. So, without further ado, the catch up post of Project 365 pictures and quotes.

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
-Pope John Paul II

“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
-St. Francis of Assisi

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
-St. Francis of Assisi

"Drops of water, by continually falling,
hone their passage through the hardest of rocks
but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar
and leaves no trace behind.”
-Og Mandino

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
-St. Francis of Assisi

“What can you ever really know of other people's souls -
of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles?
One soul in the whole creation you do know:
and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands”
-C.S. Lewis

“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
-G. K. Chesterton

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted
or take them with gratitude.”
G. K. Chesterton

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
-G. K. Chesterton

In last ditch effort on behalf of winter to show itself... we got a good amount of snow this past week, along with accruing a couple more snow days to make up. Although I don't think the girls will mind terribly since they got enough of a snow blast to once more take on our wicked sledding hill with gusto. With several days of sledding under our belts, we walked away with only one scraped face and not one broken body. By my standards, that's success.

“Stay home. Have fun. Build a snowman. Go sledding with the kids.”
-Mike Easley

{this picture makes me think of the cold pole in A Christmas Story}

Flick: Are you kidding? Stick my tongue to that stupid pole? That's dumb!
Schwartz: That's 'cause you know it'll stick!
Flick: You're full of it!
Schwartz: Oh yeah?
Flick: Yeah!
Schwartz: Well I double-DOG-dare ya!
Ralphie [narrating] NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare you"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.
Schwartz: I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!