We took our youth group at church to a Wheeling Nailers hockey game. As you can see, it's not terribly crowded at the Nailers games, but they are a lot of fun. The Nailers play in the same league as the Utah Grizzlies.
Two weeks after the big snow, the steps at Church of the Covenant (across the street from my office, where the girls did preschool) are still buried in snow.
This is a picture from our giant snowstorm. I made the girls hold the tape measure in the snow, but you can't really see it reading just under two feet, and still snowing.
This is a picture of me fixing our basement toilet. I, um, invited some folks over who were without power or water because of the snowstorm, and ended up having to take the toilet off its base to clear a, um, clog. Awesome.
For Valentine's Day, I got Joanne an herb garden pot. 
The girls got Valentine's Webkinz. Oh great, more Webkinz. Oh great, more stuffed animals.
My wifey baked me a heart shaped, very tasty, M&M cookie for love day.
This is a row of pine trees in our neighborhood.
A view of a little valley on the road to the church.
Downed power lines cut off power to 180,000 homes in western PA. Here are a few downed power lines. Our house kept power (probably because in our neighborhood all utilities are underground), but the church lost power over night.
This power pole snapped off along the road to the church. It's probably the culprit for knocking out the church's power. There were a couple others broken too.
Since we canceled church, I went over and decided to dig the church out. We have a super-awesome snow blower so the work wasn't as hard as it would have been otherwise. I had fun, and a few ward members came by to help. We even used the snow blower to dig out the widow across the street from the church. I took this shot while I was snowblowing.
Here's the front of the church with the snow blower half way up the front sidewalk.
The sidewalks look like luge tracks once the snowblower has been through.
Back inside and all warm, Madeline helped mommy make blueberry muffins.
We celebrated Elder Mill's birthday at our house on Thursday with Chocolate Chip cookies and ice cream.
As always, one of Madeline's favorite indoor activities is dress ups. I thought she was cute as a cow girl so I told her to smile and say cheese, which she did. After I took the picture she said "I could have said howdy."
Sorry I don't have any pictures of the girls for you this week. They did have a slumber party with our neighbor, Faith on Friday evening, but I wasn't there, so I didn't get any pictures of that. I'll try to do better next week.
They were happy during the hardware phase of the project, but when it came to programming the thing and I started teaching them C, they were less enthusiastic.
For Martin Luther King Day, the girls had a day off school, so we went to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. The girls had a lot of fun there. We also checked out SportsWorks, a new part of the science center focused on body and health. My phone died though, so no pictures of the girls on the bungee trampoline or the you-yo, unfortunately. This is in the Science Kitchen. The guy was making caramel apple flambe.
The girls were making a pipe maze for a ball to follow here.
Jessica played air hockey against a robot built by Carnegie Mellon University. She scored on it, but lost 3-1. I played it to a 0-0 tie.
They have a whole room dedicated to model trains. The guy told us there were 250,000 handmade mini-trees in the display, which was designed to model Pittsburgh throughout the four seasons of the year.
