A few fun winter shots!

Do you know who this is?

Snapped these pictures last weekend when it looked like winter around here! Today temps were in the 50's!

Answer: The picture above is Sophie, for the first time Abby selected a brown winter coat, and Sophie picked the pink one!

Another wonderful week!

With a half day and a day off for the kids last week was full of lazy afternoons and snuggles! Can't beat that! What a great way to spend the last full week of January, and lead in to a busy week of kitchen cabinet refacing and pre birthday excitement!
Ernie's new favorite spot!! On the half day we met Tom for lunch, Abby couldn't stop snuggling him and Noah joined in the fun loving on Sophie! Thursday afternoon the kids made a 'nest' to snuggle up to watch a movie. While the girls were at art class Noah and I got a chance to relax at Barnes and Noble! Saturday night while Noah was at a slumber party (they girls went to one Friday night) we went out to Mexican and I snapped a picture of beautiful Abby with her crimped hair! Sunday morning the girls snuggled up in the chair while the snow fell outside!

Our week in pictures

We had a busy, but wonderful winter week! Last Sunday we went sledding at a school near our house. On the way home we went out to the beach just in time for an AMAZING January sunset! Monday-Thursday Noah took snowboarding lessons in Grand Haven. He learned so much and had a blast (as I type this on Sunday he is back out there having fun!) It was a very cold a snowy week, the bottom L picture was taken of Grand Haven State Park on our drive to his lessons. Friday for our "hot chocolate" tradition I made the kids 'melted frostys' (family fun). Yumm! It was such a fun week!

Go Noah!!

Noah is taking snowboarding lessons this week in Grand Haven. After two days he is doing great with the tow rope, and awesome at boarding down the hill! It's amazing!!

Last week in pictures

I'm running behind with the blog, but here is a collage from last week....

A foggy morning at the garden, Abby drawing from her bird drawing book, beautiful snowfall, catching snowflakes, snuggling up to read "Wonderstruck" while daddy is in Vegas, a quiet night of reading for me after the kids are in bed. What a beautiful week it was.

Weekend Love

We had a wonderful weekend that included the ice carving competition downtown Holland (even though temps were near 50!), individual time with each kiddo (I took Abby for a milkshake, Tom took Noah downtown for hot chocolate and to view the ice carvings, and Sophie to have a milkshake), the Lions game (bummer!), and lots of snuggling. We even got our tree taken down (finally!). Weekends are a gift, we loved every minute of this one!

Gifts

This morning at basketball Abby was putting on her shoes (slower than Sophie's velcro ones). Sophie sat down and said, "Want me to start tying this shoe?" Abby, "Sure, thanks" Teamwork, a gift.
The kids brought home their Christmas gifts for us yesterday. They made them over a period of 5 weeks in art class at school. We LOVE them. They learned about southwestern storytellers (google Helen Cordero and southwestern storytellers...very cool!) The premise is that it is an object, the teller, is telling a story to a smaller object, the teller. Helen Cordero created the first one for her grandfather who always had kids on him listening to his stories. The objects can be people or animals and the listeners can be placed anywhere on the teller. They are amazing!! We love reading to our kids and this is such a treasure!

L-R: Sophie's (turtles), Abby's (turtles), Noah's (daddy and Noah)