Honor Roll!

Chace received a certificate today for being on the Honor Roll! Newton was able to be there, and snapped this with his camera phone.

Not so wintry wonderland

School was cancelled again today! We had snow overnight that turned into freezing rain all day. You can see the river running through the front yard. Chace and Logan were trying to float boats down it. Chace became quite concerned when he saw the level of the water in the drainage pond, but it was doing its job and we did not have flooding. Very strange to need umbrellas in the snow.

Queens of the snow hill

I tried to build Alana a little snow hill to slide down. She and her friend did slide down the hill, but not the way I planned....

Snow Days Continued

We did not realize that this would turn into a snow week! The snow all turned to ice, so school got canceled Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday! On Sunday Chace and a friend got to have some excitement as our car turned into a giant sled and went backwards down a big icy hill. We got turned around ok and went out a different way. Monday Alana and I finally made snowmen! Its the first time I've made one. We made two little ones (I had to dig through icy crust to get to useable snow) and used dried plums for the eyes. Fun!

Snow Days Part 1

Last Saturday we got around 7 inches of snow. The kids were thrilled! I was better prepared this time, so both kids had snow pants and Alana had boots. So they really got to go out and enjoy the snow this time. Chace helped Logan build a snow fort and Alana got to make snow angels (she had it figured out this time).

Because blue is so last year...

Alana is a big girl now (and you had better not say otherwise or she will get very upset!) So no more blue markers for her! She would much rather turn herself "yellow" with my makeup instead. Atleast it is a little easier to clean up.