Where Have We Been?

Where have we been for the last month? Mostly buried in snow, and then frigid weather. I blame my lack of posting on an uncooperative blogger/picassa site. Sometimes it doesn't want to load my pictures and sometimes it does. I do take photos, but it stacks up. The holidays came and went. We had a great time. There was loads of snow and lots of family visiting. A sledding hill was built by my brothers-in-law. Well the girls and I started it, but they made it oh so much better. We all attended First Night which wasn't too frigid compared to the subzero tempteratures we have been enduring this week. Here are the activites in pictures...

Decorating gingerbreadmen!

The gift of a great new book!

Cousins

Cherie brought Annabel and Sam over top play while we were visiting Grammie. This is good because Annabel and Alexa love to play together. They are very cute little buddies.


I caught a green crab for the kids to look at. Last year we made the discovery that they live under the rocks along the new boat ramp. You can catch themat low tide if you are willing to move the rocks around at bit. That doesn't sound too hard, however, the barnacles on those rocks can doa number on your finger. I am still healing from the wounds, but they have fun observing it for awhile before we let it go.

Memorial Day Weekend

OK, so we are about two days past the weekend, but I am a bit behind. Here I will recap it for you.

#1 The girls ran the YAM Scram. Here are the before pictures...
Here is Alexa running during the race.

Chloe wouldn't be seen with her parents and wanted to run herself. Here are the after pictures.

#2 COMPANY!!! We had Aunt Cherie, Uncle Micheal, Annabel, and Sam come to visit. It was lots of fun and warm weather. So we dug out the slip and slide. Everyone had their own way down.
Then we had the pool out for a pool party.

Good times. I, personally, am extremely grateful that even though I forgot my camera out on the deck and it rained on it; it still seems to be working... more or less.

Thanksgiving

OK, so I have been holding out on you a bit. I owe about a weeks worth of posts. Things have been rather busy around our little house. We had a lot of company over Thanksgiving which made for a really fun week. Along with the usual turkey and fixings, there were...

Cute, cuddly, little babies named Sam...

piano playing...

tiara adjustments and princess finery...

dance shows...

a lot of taira wearing factored into things...

butterfly sunglasses...

cute, cuddly dogs...

pathetic mooching dogs...

worn out squirrel chasing dogs...

and more cute, cuddly Sam moments.

We also learned a few things. We learned:

• three girls can all sleep in one bedroom and actually mostly sleep
• two little girls can share one bed and actually sleep, if they are properly worn out from a long day
• making a good case for downsizing the McMansions of this world five adults and four children can actually get along in a house just under 1,300 square feet with one bathroom. Although I wouldn't want to test that for too long.
• Grammie Eva will just keep on knitting things for ever if you keep feeding her and giving her access to new yarn. Her week's work: three hats, three pairs of mittens, and one pair of socks. The woman is a machine!
• snow pants are excellent protection for children going ice skating for the first time.
• a scant 1/8 inch of snow can send three children outside on a quest to build a snowman... not terribly successful, but it cleared them out of the house for a bit.
• Three little girls can take a shower at one time and think it is fun too
• four adults working together do not actually know a lot of the crossword puzzle answers

We really enjoyed having everyone. Alexa told me on Sunday, "I am really sad that everyone had to go home." We miss you and are so glad you came. Next time we will make sure to pack in Aunt Andrea and Uncle Ryan. I know they both look great in tiaras.