I Promise I've been up to Something!

My Dad came up for a visit to help us tear apart our old, ugly unusable fireplace.  Underneath the slate we discovered tons and tons of brick which meant more work for Adam, my Dad and the two great friends who helped us tear it apart.  It was a dusty, dirty mess.  Thank you Dad!

 I finally finished the boys train quilts!  I had them open them up on Valentines day!  I think they like having their own big-boy blanket.

 

We woke up one morning to a skiff of snow so we made a snowman. We basically removed all the snow from our yard and shaped it into a Viking snowman! Silas was the tough one and loved being outside in the cold so much I had to drag him inside when we were done.

 Another day we enjoyed a drippy spot with umbrellas!

 When I was a kid we would always turn our stairs into a slide, SO... I took a mattress and set it up on the stairs.  Needless to say, the boys loved it!

Get Us Outside

In the middle of February in Montana we need a lot of help getting outside.  Luckily little boys don't need much convincing, they will brave the cold!  It is just mom who needs persuading.

 Kael has been leary of the 4-wheeler for a long time, but he just climbed up with Grandpa with out a second thought.  He is getting to be such a big boy!

Oh the mud!  What a wonderful thing!

Chinese New Year

In elementary school I had an awesome teacher, her name was Mrs. C. (she had a long last name!)  Mrs. C. always celebrated Chinese New Year.  Every year I intead to eat chinese or do something festive but then life happens and I miss the day entirely!  This year we celebrated!

The boys, Adam and I made chinese latterns, went out to lunch and a local chinese restaurant and colored dragons (since this year is the year of the dragon!)  We ate dinner at home with some chopsticks and and Asian style table setting my sister gave me.  It was fun to celebrate something unique in the middle of January!

Happy NEW YEAR! YAY 2012!

We rang in the new year at Adam's parents house with lots of family close!  It was fun.  Last July we forgot to use some of the the fun pop fireworks and little pull confetti shooters, so we saved them for New Years Eve.  The kids had a blast and so did Adam and I!  Here are some fun pictures of our New Year's Weekend.

Santa's Comin

This week has been full of Christmas!!  We made a gingerbread shanty (I just can't call it a house). And At least it at a Hershey's Kiss chimney!  The boys just love sing Christmas Carols, so after singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town I decided they were ready for their BIG debut!  I love copying good ideas, I have a sister-in-law who let her kids sleep a night under the Christmas tree and Kael kept reminding me that is still needed to sleep there.  The night before the night before Christmas they both slept under the lights and actually fell asleep!  The last picture is of them in the fighter Pilot Christmas Jammies!

Sunday Morning Sunrise

Sometimes I open my eyes to look and wonder if anything could be more beautiful.  This morning it happened again, right outside my living room window.

Bippity Bobbity Blue

On Thursday we first lit our awesome blue lights.  Adam did a great job hanging them and the weather  cooperated! And then he braved the cold to take these pictures for me.

 When we first lit them I had the boys stand outside and yell "Bibbity Bobbity Blue."  They loved it!