Spring IS coming!

Yes, spring just might get here! I think it was only 2 weeks ago that the ground was still covered in snow! And now look- Grass! Today was such a beautiful day - no coats! Ahhhhh.....

So living right by a public building does have it's advantages. All winter they would come with their big snow plows and clear their 'parking lot' which is also our drive way.So nice of them to dig us out all winter long. The downfall is that they just pushed it all to one side... our back yard. So for the last few days I have been 'raking' rocks and pebbles out of our grass and into piles as I have waited and waited for the ENORMOUS pile of snow to melt. Well, it's just about gone. You can see what's left of it in front of Jared. Woo-Hoo! So when Jared got home from work today I said "For FHE we're shoveling rocks!" (I don't think he was quite as excited as I was.) We didn't get it finished, but it will be this week, and then our beautiful back yard grass can grow!

Anyways, just had to post the pic of Trenton 'helping' daddy shovel.

Combined Activity

Just finished up our Youth Combined Activity. We had a relay race, boys against the girls. Part of the race was to be blindfolded and get an egg out of the back of the truck, then try and maneuver the maze, and quickly try and fill a jug that has holes in it, then tag your next teammate! Their goal was to get a dozen eggs through the maze.


At first it was easy to get the eggs, but as time went on, they had to crawl through more and more broken eggs to get to the good ones way up in there. All while blindfolded.

A couple times the kids dropped their eggs and had to try and find them with their teammates screaming "Left! Left! No, your OTHER left!!" HA!


The water was SOOOOOO COLD! But they did it, they kept pouring water into their bottles as fast as they could to beat the water draining out of the holes.


Trying to get through the maze as the adult leader was beating you with a pool noodle!




Trenton sure caught onto the noodle-beating pretty quickly! He's so 'boy'!



Here's a bit later as she's crawling though 3 broken eggs trying to get up to the good ones.




The boys won so I told them I'd get a picture and just before I could Dave smashed an egg on his son's head!



And here we all are. It was such a fun activity. Lots of cold wet gooey slimy fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRENTON

We celebrated last night (Jared's gone all day today, bummer). We also had snow day so Trenton got an extra present: his Daddy stayed home all day yesterday. Lots of fun running, chasing, tickling, laughing, movie watching, eating, napping, playing, ... What a great day with Daddy! After dinner we served up a piece of marble cake w/chocolate frosting, lit the candles and started singing. As you can see, he didn't know what to think of mom and dad singing, but he loved the fire part! Notice how far away the candles are...

Open Wide!!!

Oh hey, check it out- Frosting!!

make sure we get all that in....

Ya know, that's pretty good stuff!
Why don't we have this for dinner every night???

We gave him his own set of tools, and he went to work right away!
Of course keeping OSHA in mind...

He was in heaven

"Ya know, life's pretty good when ya got your dad home with ya."

This should catch up December

Most of December was spent indoors as we had a few snow storms. But when the good days showed up we most certainly enjoyed them!

Christmas

Don't think he got the whole Christmas idea, but he sure caught onto tearing off the wrapping paper!


























And here's our Christmas family photo. Merry Christmas to all!
(in February)

Snowed-In in December

The snow here has been crazy. I mean not really crazy for what Jared or I am used to, but Nebraska certainly is NOT used to this. In fact, I have heard that the city of Lincoln has put in like 3000 hours of overtime clearing snow.

Our first big storm snowed us in. The plows didn't make it us for 3 days. We just hung out at the house... and went sledding!

Halloween?!?! Goodness, you'd think I could at least keep this up-to-date. Obviously not. So let's see if we can catch up the last 3 months...

NOVEMBER: Our strawberries had come back! After it had cooled off from the intense summer heat, the strawberries began to produce again. Trenton LOVES them! In fact, whenever we went outside he'd walk around the corner of the house and straight to the strawberry patch, find one, pick off the green leaves and Yum! (boy do I miss those days of just cool mornings and green grass still!)























And of course he's addicted to movies just like his mama. :-) He loves to chill with Disney.
























And now my internet is down. Ugh. Uh.... "stay tuned for December and January! Until next time, Hasta Luego."