Snow bells and Wedding balls
Posted @ 3:18 p.m. on 2008-03-09

Wedding bells rang and snow fell in such a way that made the whole experience memorable.

2 hours there and 1 1/2 hours back on snow covered roads in almost blizzard conditions.

Yep. Pretty stupid.

Even though the drive both to and from were nothing less than white-knuckled I think that everyone had a good time. The girls got to dance with the adults and Nikki and I got to dance together.

That's something that rarely happens anymore unless it is the horizontal mambo.

It is really gratifying and humbling when two of my brother’s best friends and their wives remark that our girls are perfect little ladies and so very well behaved.

It was, as it always is, weird for me to hear that my children are the best behaved children that people have seen. It is weird because there is nothing that Nikki and I have done to them. They are just naturally that well behaved.

What do you say to people when they give you a compliment that you had nothing to do with?

me: "Thanks but they are just naturally good kids."

them: (puzzled look)

Nikki: "We have really had it easy with them. They just don't misbehave."

them: (slightly angered look as they turn away)

Ok, that last sentence was a complete fabrication but that's what I would do if my kids were demons.
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On to today.

There was so much snow out there that Nikki and I took the kids out to play in it.

This is the deepest snow that I remember in my adult life.

Everyone pitched in to build a "Quinsy".
It is a cousin to the igloo. The difference is that an igloo is made form ice and a quinsy is made out of piled up snow that has been hollowed out to form a cave like dwelling.

They are quite cozy. I slept in one when I was a teen and it was the warmest winter camping night I have ever had. Snow is the world’s natural insulator against the cold.