Limbo

Ellie still doesn't quite understand the concept that it is FREEZING outside. She is stuck between winter and summer, Idaho and California.
Ellie loves to play dress up, and lately she has found her stash of swimming suits in her drawer and loves to put them on. Today she had one of her swimming suits with her dress up shoes, and her brother decided he wanted to go outside and play and she thought it would be fine to put on her jacket and join him. Oh...she had her sunglass on too. What is wrong with this picture???

Crazy hair.

We were trying to get ready to go somewhere and I asked Jared to comb his hair. This was the end product...

Yes, that's right, Jared decided to do Ellie's hair instead...look at this masterpiece.

Ellie seemed to like the hair do.

The creator and his masterpiece.

Valentines Day!

We had a lot of fund for Valentines Day. The kids made homemade Valentine cards to pass out to their classmates and friends. We had our neighbors over for some homemade heart shaped pizza (all of which I forgot to take pictures). But overall it was a fun day.Ellie and Rachel made flower pops.

Jared made alligators, you open the mouth and it says "I'd chomp at the chance to be your Valentine." We stuffed the body with starbursts.

2 Dollars worth of fun!

We decided to try something that the kids had never done before and I had only done once when I was 18. So, we headed out to the city's ice skating rink. We couldn't believe it. It was $1 for a day's worth of skating and $1 for the rental for each person. So for our entire family we spent $10. What a deal! The kids had so much fun. If you ask Ellie about ice skating she will inform you "I fell down on my bum bum." Yes, Ellie, Jared, and Rachel spent a good deal of time on the ice instead of their feet but once they got the hang of it they didn't want to leave.

Bill & Ellie cruising along.Rachel & Jared at the end of the day...

It's hard to stay on your feet when you have two hanging on you
that have a hard time keeping their balance.

Writers Block.

Sorry for slacking in the blogging department. The creative juices just haven't been flowing. It's funny when one of my friends hasn't posted in a while I always think, "Really, you couldn't find anything to share?" And here I find myself, almost a month without posting anything.

Snow Fest!

This Saturday the city put on a snow fest. They have games, sleigh rides, and crazy things like a polar swim. They offered a free beanie for signing up. Are you crazy? They want you to swim in freezing water and all your offering is a beanie? It was about 20 degrees outside. We lasted a couple hours before the kids started complaining the couldn't feel their fingers or toes. It took us the rest of the day to thaw out. But it was worth it, we a had a great day.

They had several different horses & sleighs/wagons. We rode a couple of times. Ellie loved the horses.

The kids & mommy. Bill was helping out for one of his classes as a service project. So I had all three kids to myself.

Rachel & Jared snow bowling. They had real bowling balls & pins. Ellie got a spare. Too bad I didn't get a picture of it. The kids all got a free game of bowling at the local bowling alley.

Painting in the snow, Rachel was attempting to make a flower.

Jared was trying to write his name.