our snow

Jake was looking for a project to do, so I thought we'd make some snowflakes. I remember making a TON of these when I was little every winter and I just loved making them. He had a lot of fun doing this. Here's his first one, he was very proud of it as you can probably tell from his smile. We then hung it on our window so "hopefully the snowflakes see it and we get a lot of snow in our yard" =)

Alot from a while ago all at once!

It's been a while. I've been storing up my pictures and now I'll add a mix of a little bit of everything.

Mr. Fixit... Jake loves to help. He got a new tool set, the real thing!! on his birthday and he's always looking for things to fix. Here, the bike needed some work done.
My little princesses...They are turning into quite the pals...Just lately they have really been playing together a lot and it's so fun to watch, they were dressing up like princesses, Emily had a nightgown that Meri wore as her princess dress =)
The kids got some pumpkins and we (I) carved them the other day. I think they're kinda cute =) Well, the pumpkins, too!
We had just barely a dusting of snow, but hey, enough to sled on =-) I think most of it was pulling/pushing each other up & down the driveway =) Oh to be a kid again!
The kid's cousin Larissa was over when we had some snow, right away they wanted to go out and play in the snow!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

We had a combined party on Sunday since Jacob & Joe's Bday's are just 2 days apart. Today is the official day =)

Happy 6th Birthday Jacob!!!

We celebrated Jacob's birthday Sunday. He had been looking forward to it for SO long!! He could barely stand it all afternoon, just waiting for everyone to get here. He had a great time Here's the gang!

Ahhhh....refreshing!!!!!!

The little water girl! Meri has started to want to wash her hands by herself in the bathroom sink all the time. So, today, after she had licked off the cake batter from the cakes I was making she went into the bathroom to wash her hands. Well, next thing I know she's scooping the water up with her hands and splashing it onto her face =) So funny, she just thought it was great! I don't know if you can tell, but she's got the cold water on full blast...she was just cracking up over this and did it over and over until I figured she was just about numb...and soaking wet =)