First Snowfall

I've been anxiously waiting for a good snow storm because I found the cutest little snow suit for Duke (and it was 50% off too, which makes it that much better). We had a little snow day with my nieces at my parents house and went sledding down their hill. Although he wasn't a fan of being in the snow, he enjoyed it a little bit more once he figured out he could eat it.  Nothing like a snow day with the fam to bring in the Christmas spirit. Now just crossing my fingers it snows on Christmas day!

Duke's 1st time sledding (ps thanks to my fast skills, the garbage can didn't land on him ;)

Ice Castles

For our Friday night date, we went with the Duffy's up to Midway to see the famous ice castles that everyone has been talking about. 

Once we got into Midway, we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for dinner. They had an amazing salsa bar with many different salsas. Chad and I should've just ate that. It was so addicting that we were full by the time our food came out. Needless to say, we still at our enchiladas AND dessert afterwards (which we regretted later).

Chad and I have pretty good luck, mostly with random events. When we were walking to get in line for tickets at the ice castles, some random lady stopped Chad and said she had 4 extra tickets for us. What a generous lady! Tickets were $10/each, so we saved $40 altogether! That made up for our bill at the restaurant :)

The ice castles were incredible! There were waterfalls coming out of the icicles, color changing icicles, and tons of different variations of icicles. I would definitely recommend seeing them, it's amazing!

Bruno's Dog House

Winter is coming and it's getting colder quicker than I like. Since Bruno is outside for most of the day, we decided he needed to get a dog house to keep him warm. Instead of buying one, we decided to make our very own. 

Chad found awesome blueprints online. After many trips to Home Depot, Lowe's and stocking up on some essential tools, we had all that we needed. Neither of us had built anything like this before, so it took us a lot longer probably than most people, but we had so much fun doing it. 

We decided to build it like a house, so there is insulation in the walls and the roof. With all the wood, shingles and insulation, the house is over 200 pounds! So for right now, it will stay in the driveway until we find a way to move it. We absolutely love how it turned out. Hopefully Bruno will like it :)

 

For a detailed tutorial of the insulated dog house, go here!