I have a chimney!

Yup! It's Official!  I have the nicest looking chimney in my entire little town!  Thank you Dad!  Thank you Mom for playing with my boys and making their day great while I was out track meeting.  My parents rock!

Dino Jammies

I love sewing with knits!  My mom helped me learn how to make knit t-shirts and I finally finished them yesterday and also made some jammie pants to match.  I love the fabric, it so bright and soft.  The boys seemed pretty excited about them too!

Happy Easter!

This year we grew our own Easter grass.  We threw wheat in some dirt 3 weeks before Easter and that was more than enough time to grow a jungle of grass in every basket.  The boys loved it.  Each morning at breakfast they would exclaim, "look at how much our grass grew!"

April (Snow) Showers...

The skiff of snow made the the trampoline perfectly slippery!

Birthday Fun

If you're gonna turn 30 it might as well be fun and my Birthday was FUN!  My twin sister and parents came up to visit.  We ate yummy shrimp and delicious birthday cake, visited a couple of quilting stores and played outside in the sunshine.

Ever since I moved to one the windiest places in the world I have wanted a clothes line.  I love the smell of sheets fresh off the line.  For my birthday, my Dad welded me the most perfect clothes line.  I have been enjoying my fresh smelling laundry ever since!  Well, until the snow storm stuck yesterday!  My boys love running in between the items on the line!

For St. Patrick's Day we made a rainbow out of fruit with with Rollo's as the gold at the end of the rainbow!   I saw on pinterest!

The boys wore their green shirts that say, "Kiss me, I'm a wee bit Irish!"

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!