Feb-Brrr-Airy

We had fun teaching the scouts how to prepare a fire by making kindling:

And taught them how to make a snow fort if they were stranded in the cold:

 All the boys fit into the snow burrow quite nicely:

Unfortunately, the "big kid" leader was too big:

The finished snow fort:

We also had a fire to roast snickers over.  We taught the boys how to start the fire using flint and steel and had them try it....which meant Taylor had to start the fire using flint and steel... ;)

Sparks!

The boys's commentary in this video is hilarious as Taylor is trying to start the fire.

All roasting snickers around the camp fire.

And even with a hatchet, a fire, and knives, and skewers to roast snickers, none of the boys got hurt!

Unfortunately, as I was putting everything away inside the house afterwards, the knife i brought (with a sheave!) fell on my hand, and as it fell the sheaf came off...

Glad it finally stopped bleeding!

Also, we took a stroll down memory lane as

Taylor pretended to be a teen again, calling me on the church phone during his brother's wedding...

Phone wire twirl and everything ;)

And seems like every other day it's snowing...but at least these snow flakes were cute!

Luckily, my dad gave us his spinner bike!  So we can get our heart rate up while staying warm inside!

Poor Tannin just has to look out the window at everything she's missing since the cold would hurt and kill her pretty fast.

 Seriously, she's adorable.

Speaking of adorable...

Tannin ALWAYS has to sleep on her hammock each night.  She's a creature of habit.  The unfortunate part is that the hammock sometimes falls...while she's sleeping on it...Haha! She won't sleep anywhere else, even if it's on the ground. Taylor and I couldn't stop laughing because Tannin refused to get off the hammock, she just laid there dejected.  (Don't worry--we fixed it after the picture and Tannin was happy to have it back up.)

And Michelle made these super cute baby face cupcakes for a cousin's baby shower.