Snow Fest in Universal City and Family Valentines Date

Valentines weekend was a great bunch of fun for the Force Five. We have been watching a fun series on Netflix based on the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot and we kicked off our weekend with a Friday night ,"Merlin Marathon" we got about 5 episodes in before everyone was too tired to go on. It ended before ten o'clock and I for one was surprised and our inability to go on, but pleased to have kids in bed asleep at a very reasonable hour. This series has been great entertainment for us together. We have had some really fun conversations like if you were in a sword fight who would you want on your side and why? Or what how will the king rule in this dilemma and is that fair or right? Which would you prefer to have, Arthur's strength or Merlin's magic? Who is prettier, Lady Morgana or Guinevere? And the like, you get the idea. Very fun to share this interest with them instead of all of us watching our own favorites separately.
Well I did say we went to be early but that didn't keep us from sleeping in late and waking up only for a late pancake breakfast (for the second time this week, pancakes that is). We had a lazy afternoon until it was time to go to the Universal City Snow Fest. YES I did say snow in Texas. Well not much of it really but plenty of fun if you ask my kids. Rock climbing, fun house, bounce houses, and slides of all sorts including one snow slide adjacent to the small snow playground. To me it was a lot of opportunity to stand in line. For the four hours we were there we stood in line for five attractions that each lasted about half a minute each and if you ask Addie and Lucas they were the five best 15 second periods ever, so I guess all that waiting in a crown was worth it.
We topped our weekend off with our regular Sunday morning at church at Journey Fellowship and an early evening family date to Outback Steakhouse. Kevin shared with us a gift from his birthday in October and everybody ate steak ... AND bloomin onion AND bread AND cheesecake. Only the cheesecake was fairly small so we ran by Walgreens on the way home to pick up BlueBell to ease the small cheesecake heartache.
Needless to say, we are winding our weekend down now with a little bit more Merlin.
I hope your weekend was fun and full of smiles like ours was.