Joyful January

January began with these -50 degree temps... This is pretty much the description of our polar vortex of a winter.  

It was so dang cold even our snowman had a hole in his heart.

After a long Christmas break, school was canceled a bunch more days just because of the cold temps, so we tried to make the best of it. 

Greyson made the best of it by "helping out" with house work.  Yes, he is INSIDE the dishwasher there.  He pulled out the bottom rack and made his way back in there.  Silly boy!

We went out in the winters WORST ice storm to head to the IceHog's Hockey game.  We scored some free tickets and didn't realize how bad the roads were until we were half way to the game.   During the game we kept getting notifications on our news apps about all the roadway slide offs.  One station was broadcasting that every single emergency vehicle was out working on slide offs and that they didn't have enough resources to help everyone right away.... thankfully we had fun at the game and more importantly made it home safely!

At the end of the month we headed out in yet another snow storm to celebrate Uncle Jeff's birthday at Chicago's Medieval Times.  Its a dinner show with mid evil themes and fighting.  It was such a fun time and the boys loved it too!

We also found out the gender of #4.  HE sure wasn't hiding it.  No denying it... my uterus is blue and probably has a mustache.  Good thing I love my boys so much!