We love Cleveland

This is from my parents' enclosed porch (so it does not factor in wind chill)

We're kinda excited for Spring. :)

Cereal Buffet

Every 2 weeks we are lucky enough to get the feed our local missionaries dinner with my sister's family. Last time we found ourselves sitting around joking about what the missionaries' (two 19 year old guys) favorite meal would be. We laughed as we sat and invented the Cereal Buffet with endless kinds of cereals and every type of milk. You could mix and match to your heart's content,  and if course there'd be plenty of mix-ins like fruit and nuts to further the experience.

The more we talked about it the better it sounded.  And suddenly everyone wanted to do it for real.

So tonight was the night. We didn't quite get the whole imagined spread,  but we had a pretty good selection.  We spent the evening feasting on tiny customized bowls of cereal (tiny so we'd have room to try lots of combos)

I think my favorite was the Cookies & Cream cereal in chocolate milk.  Or maybe Great Grains in coconut milk... it's really hard to decide.

It was probably the most fun I've had while eating a meal in a long time. I think this might be the beginning of an amazing tradition. :)

This is what happens when you don't drive your car for 2 days in Ohio.

We've started planning enough time in the mornings to scrape the ice off our cars. We've found we need to plan extra time in case it's cold enough that we have to scrape the ice off both the inside and outside of the windshield.

Even with those plans, Doug was late to work this morning because my car was so cold,  the door wouldn't shut. (Who even knew that was a thing?!)

He's driving my car because our neighbor slid on the ice and bashed into Doug's car while it was parked in front of our apartment.

It was snowing so much after the accident that we had to shovel the car out of the snow for the insurance guy to come look at it on Tuesday.

And after all that shoveling, this is what it looks like today.

Winters in Ohio are pretty awesome.