It is SO cold!!

Wow, it has been freezing!!  Like, literally. Today the high is 17 degrees and the low is 3 degrees, but with the wind chill factored in it's -4 degrees. That's NEGATIVE 4. And that's pretty much the weather expected for this weekend too. We woke up bright and early this morning to go to the gym today, so I think we experienced that low temperature! We only made it to the gym twice this week, partially because of the weather and partially because we were just too exhausted. I am SO sore today though! I've been trying really hard to get my leg strength up, and today I was able to do a leg press set of 10 reps for 180 pounds and then two sets of 10 reps for 200 pounds! That's a lot for me, so I was pretty proud.

I made a delicious soup last night!  It's a potato soup, and here's the recipe:
http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/potato-soup-recipe/

I stole this picture from the website with the recipe! 

It turned out really great, and tonight we're going to have leftovers with some bread I am making today. Soup just sounds TOO good when the temperatures outside are this freezing! And this recipe could easily be adapted (Mom - you could make this if you substitute turkey bacon!).

A few days ago we got some light snow (an inch or two), so I took some pictures because it looked so pretty out! Here they are:

Part of our backyard. You can see our little bat house on that big tree! 

Another part of our backyard. That tarp-covered blob is our firewood. 

Here's our cute little guy! He loves the snow. 

This is our front yard and our neighbor's house across the street. 

This is from our front yard, looking up our street a bit. 

Here's our house! 

This is the plum tree in our front yard. 

I am SO excited for our weekend!! It's going to be so much fun. I think tomorrow we're going to try to go see Deadpool too. I think we'll be SLIGHTLY productive this weekend too, but not too productive. We have a few projects around the house we're working on, and we have a few errands to run too.

I hope you all have a great weekend!!