Snow and Quarters

It snowed again last night. So first thing after breakfast, Justin and I went back across the street to shovel Karen's walks & driveway. I discovered that it is much easier to shovel snow without a 1 year old on your back! The funniest thing happened while we were shoveling. Two of Justin's homeschooling friends came by for our weekly activity. They arrived early, and since we were still shoveling, they came over to help. The four of us had been shoveling hard for 15 minutes, when the community tractor shoveler came blazing by to clean the sidewalks. All three kids stood at a dead stand still with mouths gaping open as they watched the tractor move effortlessly along. (I So wish I had a PICTURE to capture the look on their faces which seemed to say, "why couldn't we have one of those!" The man on the tractor must have read their minds, and asked if they would like him to take a couple of swoops on the driveway. WOW! He did in about 3 minutes what would have taken four of us an entire hour to do! We were all very excited and grateful!! Karen was impressed with our shoveling abilities, until I informed her that we had a little help.

Karen paid Justin generously (again) with an almost completed coin collection of the 51 states' quarters. She has collected all but 5 of the coins which are yet to be printed this year. Justin came home and searched the house for all our quarters to see if he could find the 'Utah' quarter, but had no luck. What a fun payment. Above is a picture of Karen, and Justin with his new coin collection.