I love living where we have 4 seasons, but I’m not always ready for them to go and change on me! I feel like we got no where near enough snow this Winter. Luckily, towards the end we had a nice storm and the kids got ttheir sledding in. I think one of the most [...]
We got a few more inches of nice wet snow so we finally set out to build a snow man in our yard. I felt inspired to try building a snow troll or goblin creature. Building the 2 legs was fun and easier than I thought. Since we had 2 legs that meant we need [...]
We finally got our BIG SNOW, the first real satisfying storm of the season! YAY! Ethan was the first one out there, he rushed to get his gear on and go. He was very smiley and kept scooping up armfuls tossing it into the air above him.
Ben was the last one to come in, he [...]
The North has been looking on with envy while the South has gotten all OUR snow. Even worse was hearing some people complain about their abundance of the wonderful white stuff. Well, we finally got a few inches of snow last week. Here’s one of the reasons we love winter.
“Who us?” Here are Reuben and Casey looking oh so innocent after I tried to sneak up on them and snap a picture of their nap! I woke them up and then Jamie moved in for a snuggle with Casey. I’m not a fan of blog rants so I’ll keep this short. Yes they bark [...]
The girls and I got to go to both the boys’ Valentine’s parties on Friday (we lucked out and they were one after the other so we didn’t have to be at 2 places at once!). It was really nice, all the kids were good and cute and the chaos wasn’t too much. I love [...]
Jamie is very into projects lately and SCISSORS! Here are some hearts she has made by cutting out and coloring hearts I traced for her. She also worked with “her boys” to make a collage with some doily hearts and papers that they painted and glued together.
The last project she did was to decorate [...]
I have nothing against characters being on Valentines but I don’t like the cheapo little character Valentines from the store and I also don’t like the stress of having my kids do an assembly line of homemade Valentines either. This year I am saving $ and sanity by making my own Valentine’s for our 3 [...]
Our 3 older kids were definitely not early talkers (but never gave us real reason to worry about delays either) so its a very nice change to have Jillian be more of a talker and actually a singer too! None of the other ones sang at a year but Jillian has been singing her own [...]
Jamie is at a nice age for painting and its fun to give her different things to use besides brushes. You can buy special painting tools for kids but its so easy to make them or just use things you have around the house. Here is what I gave Jamie on the day these pictures [...]
