Ava was Angel #5. 
The day before, Ava told us that she proposed to Logan at school. He said yes. We got to meet him at the program and then shared the big news with his mom. She looked at Ava and asked, "Are you Ava W.?" Logan's mom then explained that Logan talks about Ava W. at home all.the.time. Here is the happy couple. 
This December has gone on record as Minnesota's biggest snowfall to date with somewhere around 33 inches. A substantial portion of this accumulation fell on Saturday, December 11th. Scot had been in Yuma, AZ on a Guard trip since the previous Sunday and was supposed to return on Friday - the day before the snow fell. However, a mechanical problem with their plane delayed them one day which then caused them to be "stuck" in Arizona another day because they couldn't fly into MSP due to the weather. Sigh. After a week of playing single mom (and the previous 2 weeks were mostly single too), I was not thrilled. We were supposed to have breakfast with Santa that Saturday morning and 2 birthday parties but everything was cancelled. And I snow-blowed and snow-blowed and snow-blowed. Thank goodness for the snowblower, but it was still a chore. This was the special picture I texted Scot to show just how happy I was...
Bundling up 2 kids in winter gear each time and trying to make sure they were also safe and OK while I cleared the driveway took another toll. The last time I went out (to tackle the literally 3 foot by 3 foot wall at the end of the driveway), I gave up and left them inside, turned on cartoons and told Ava to watch Reese. Yes, a 5 year old watching a 2 year old. By some miracle, they were still OK when I came in 45 minutes later. Anyway, Scot made it home safely on Sunday around 4 pm., well after all of the snow was done falling of course...
Anyway...all of this snow has made Ava a very happy girl! She loves to be outside and the snowpile that has accumulated in the middle of the culdesac is really icing on the cake. This is what it looked like last weekend and we've had another 5 or so inches since then...Reese isn't nearly as much of a winter fan like Ava is. She often stands in the garage while the rest of us play or work.
We've been busy with other Christmas preparations too...last Sunday we went to downtown Minneapolis to see the Macy's display and pay a visit to Santa. We all really enjoyed the display and the girls sort of enjoyed seeing Santa. Reese didn't want anything to do with sitting on his lap and Ava was really hesitant at first too, but she eventually warmed up and told him she wanted a dolphin pillow pet.
We also got on the ice rink for the first time and made dozens of spritz cookies. Fun and yum!
We've had our tree up for 3 weeks and it still looks great, despite getting knocked over once by Ava. And the other decorations have been up, the stockings have been hung, the list was made...we were definitely ready for Santa's visit.
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