Snow Day (that turned into a week)

In Texas we generally get about 1 'snow day' per year, usually it's just ice though, not really snow. However this year our snow day turned into a snow week. Christopher and the kids were out ALL WEEK, starting February 1st, and it was wonderful. We played games and did projects and spent time together and since it was cold and miserable outside we didn't leave the house. On friday, we ventured out in our snow gear to walk the 2 blocks to the nearest Redbox for some movies. And we only had one fall on the trip, Christopher and Eva slipped on some ice and went down together. The only pictures we took were from the first day. The kids woke up and looked out at the snow, they immediately noticed some foot prints that seemed to come from nowhere and go nowhere. They woke us up to show us and we decided to solve the mystery! It became the mystery of the footprints, we went out and measured the footprints and mapped the trail, following it as much as possible and then we let each of the kids come up with a possible solution to who could've left the prints. Each of the kids dressed themselves for the cold weather, as you can see they were rather creative. When they had all submitted their answers Christopher got on the computer with them and 'researched' until they determined the prints to be from a common housecat. It was so much fun!

Crafty!

This is just to prove that I can be equally adorably crafty as all the rest of you! (Much to my own surprise)

Eva turns 4!

Each of our kids, on their 4th birthday, got to have 4 friends over for lunch, games, a craft, and cake! Eva had three friends come celebrate the day with her, Ava K, Lola B, and Ally M. Eva's party had a My Little Pony theme. The girls put cutie marks on Rainbow Dash (pin the tail on the donkey), painted ceramic ponies, and licked icing off of cupcakes (I don't know why kids always prefer the icing, myself, I like the cake!)


In the evening Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt Kadi, Aunt Dana, Uncle Dave, and Cage come over for spaghetti and presents, and of course CAKE! Eva got 2 of every present which taught Mom that in future I will need to communicate a little better with Grandma :-) Same toy, same coloring books, luckily at the last minute Aunt Kadi switched out the pony she choose, thus getting one Eva didn't have instead of the one she had already gotten that day (unbeknownst to Kadi)

Gingerbread Village

A work in progress!
It's all in the details

This years creations!

Beautiful Children

I just like pictures of my beautiful children!

Christmas Tree Hunting

We like to get our Christmas Tree up the day after Thanksgiving. This year we walked around the corner to a Christmas Tree tent that was set up in a parking lot and since Heather Gavin and her kiddos were with us, they helped us choose the perfect tree. Then, of course, we had to walk home with it! BTW, we were bundled up much more than necessary but it was fun and the kids hadn't gotten to wear any hats or gloves yet so they wanted to.

Halloween Costumes