Midway Ice Castles

The boys filled up their marble jar again, so we decided to take them to the ice castles up in Midway. They were super excited about it because I showed them a video of the slides in the castles. This is their last joint marble jar reward. They now have separate jars they have to fill to earn a toy that Stephen and I bought. We have them for display so they can see and be reminded of what they can earn. I hope this works really well. They have been really struggling with obedience lately, so I'm crossing my fingers.

We almost died on our way up to the resort. We were about two miles away in a really dark area going 50 mph when a deer jumped in front of the car. Stephen narrowly missed it by a few inches by slamming on the brakes and swerving to the side of the road. My stomach was in my throat for the next minute and half. I thought we and deer were goners.

The ice castles were pretty cool this year. They were twice as big as when Stephen and I went last, and they had a lot more slides. We missed having big open caves to walk into though. But the formations were beautiful and they even had Olaf and Elsa visiting which the boys didn't like very well. Zander gets super shy so he didn't even want to go near them or talk to them. He just waved and talked about them from a distance.