Random update

After some computer trauma, we are back! It was getting a bit sad to click on the blog and see only snow pictures and while there is snow falling outside right now, we have actually had some decent weather!

Yeah for bike rides!!

Peter and Will cruising in the Wagon

Kenna and Peter were quite happy on the alligator for a long time

A favorite activity around here...

Here's hoping for more updates in the near future! Happy Spring to everyone!

Fun in the snow

While a little warm weather is always nice, we do manage to have a ton of fun in the snow!

Here Annie and Peter are peeking out from the snow cave they helped Robert build in the backyard.

They brought a lot of stuff in the cave including sand toys (they double really well as snow toys), a patio table, buckets, etc.

And here are some sledding pictures - I love the snow in their faces on this one

'Tis the Season!

December has been a great month so far - here are some fun pictures...

Christmas Cookie Decorating

To kick off the Christmas season we always decorate loads and loads of sugar cookies and Gingerbread men. It is something that my Grandma Ruth has headed up for as long as I can remember. We love it and are so glad the tradition lives on! There are clearly some people who are way more creative than others, but we all have fun. Enjoy the pictures!

Fun with Grandma

We had a super time while Robert's Mom was in town -we did a ton of fun stuff and the weather accommodated us perfectly - here are a few pictures of her trip. Thanks for coming Grandma! Come again soon!!
We went to the Children's Museum and had a fabulous time! Here are a few of the things we did - look at that big bubble

One of the first things we did was to paint our faces - the kid REALLY liked that!




We also made some headbands - nice, huh?

And last but not least - that day they had "Black Light Art" - you went in this room with black lights on and did a bunch of fun art projects that showed up super well in the black light. The picture is a bit funny - but it really was fun!
We also spent some time at the park - this is the "Spider web Park" as Peter calls it. Grandma climbed around with the kids for a while - I think we wore her out!

Trick or Treat!

I am pretty positive that we have never had better weather on Halloween! I remember the one year it snowed 20 inches on Halloween...this year it was almost 70! The kids had a super time...




Bumping into cousins at Grandma and Grandpa's house

Awesome Halloween Pumpkins

Robert's Mom was in town over Halloween and we had a fabulous visit with her! I need to get caught up on a couple of posts, but here is one with about the first thing we did after she arrived. Grandma and the kids:
These pumpkins were really huge and took some cleaning out. However, the pumpkin seeds that Grandma roasted after were spectacular!
Annie loving her pumpkin and Peter loving his
Here we have Peter and Grandma carving...let's just say that this year's pumpkins did NOT disappoint. Unfortunately I can't take much credit - Robert did most of the work and his Mom did a lot of the helping/carving.

Peter was not so sure he liked the insides
Annie and Dad working on one
And the final products! The cat and the skull turned out really pretty nice - large pumpkins make carving even more fun!