Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Kendall's Birthday

On February 11, Kendall turned 25! We celebrated the Sunday afterward with a big family dinner. We ate ribs and then enjoyed some cake and ice cream. Landon insisted that Daddy have a "Blue's Clues" birthday cake; that's what Daddy got.
 Happy Birthday Daddy!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Racing


Thursday, February 10, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Blizzard

We had a big blizzard Tuesday night. There was so much snow! The wind was blowing hard too, so there are crazy snow drifts. Daisy was the first one at our house to check it out. Looking out the front door, you could see that the snow had drifted up onto our porch. No one will be walking up to our front door for a while I guess. Luckily our back door is completely clear. The snow drifted off of that spot. We got the boys all bundled up. This time, I swapped the snow suits around. This suit fits Ethan a lot better than it did Landon. According to the size, it should work the other way around, but we work with what we've got. We thought we would all go and see what daddy's shop looked like, but it turns out our driveway was a bit worse than we thought. So instead, we played outside at our house. Daddy started to shovel, but the snow was deceiving. It was much deeper than it looked. We got lucky, though, and my dad had connections and cleared our drive for us. He did it in the nick of time too because there was an ambulance run that Ken had to go on soon after it was cleared. Landon thought the huge hill in front of our house was awesome! He had so much fun climbing up it. Ethan sat on the porch and ate snow. We tried to make a snowman. We couldn't  roll balls for the body very well because the snow wasn't sticking together for me. So we sort of piled a snowman together. Then, I ran inside and grabbed some things out of Landon's bedroom to decorate our snowman. He had a fireman hat, nuts/bolts for the eyes, and train track for the smile and arms. Landon was worried about his train tracks getting snow on them, so we didn't leave the stuff on it for very long. Ethan thought the snow was yummy! Landon thought so too. He told me, "Mom, do you want to see my trick?" Then he bent over and licked the snow. He wanted me to try, but I refrained. Once the boys were inside and after we pulled off all of our snow gear, I asked Ethan if he had fun. He sure did. Look at his rosie cheeks and nose! What a cutie. This was a fun blizzard for the boys.


























Saturday, January 29, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Playing in the Snow

I finally got the boys outside to play in the snow. They were so excited to take their dump trucks out in the snow. Ethan had to wear Landon's snow suit. The size said it was smaller than the one I put on Landon, but I think Ethan's actually fit Landon better. Before we finally got outside, Landon kept complaining that he couldn't move. I felt so bad. The snow suit Landon wore was given to us, and the poor boy also had to wear his rubber fire boots instead of warm snow boots. Apparently we didn't prepare him for snow very well this year. Once we were finally outside, both of the boys were so excited!  Then, Ethan crashed a few times.  Ethan's nose started to run a bit, but when he tried to wipe his face off, he got snow on his face. Things kind of went down hill for a little bit after that. Ethan was NOT happy.  Landon was getting frustrated because he couldn't push his dump truck very easily. Daisy was able to save the day, though. We started tossing her snow balls and she would jump and bite them in the air. They boys had a blast doing that, and when it was time to go inside, they didn't want the fun in the snow to end!