March Snow :)

As I said in a previous post, we received more than our usual amount of snow during the winter of 2013/2014 and I loved every minute! We received quite the dump of snow the beginning of March and had the opportunity to play in it with some of our best friends and neighbors. The kids had such a fabulous time! :) Here are the four big girls on a pile of snow cleared from our driveway. :)

How precious are these two sweet faces?

It's always helpful to have some extra adults around when you need a good push down the hill! :)

Sweet sisters

Our next door neighbor girls came by to play and share their snowboards too

They are such good sports helping out the kids

Love this cute face

Love this silly "Santa" eating snow right where her sled came to a rest

Such sweet sledding buddies

And these two are truly a pair! They are such good buddies and really know how to give each other the business. They crack me up! lol :)

Yummy snow! :)

Crazy?

or sweet? I'll let you decide which is the real Jackson. :)

Not sure what they are working on here so seriously...

Snow angels...

After snow angels these two little nuts decided to explore the swing set. Jackson had a great time breaking up the snow on the slide. :)

Working together to pick up a snow block.

Icicles!!!

McKinley enjoying her first icicle

The rest of these pictures are simply me having fun with my camera and one of my favorite subjects - my little snow baby was definitely "pretty in pink" in the snow! :)



 

Thanks to our friends for the super fun day in the snow! :)

Neighborhood Water Balloon Fight

One Saturday afternoon in August we had an impromptu water balloon fight with some neighborhood kids. We have the nicest neighbors! They are so sweet and patient with my little guys! Here's Jackson "helping" to pump the water into a water balloon.

Missy K volunteered to be one of the first to get wet

The kids never got ahead on water balloons because they threw them as soon as they had made them but they were having a great time so that's all that was important! :)

Jackson ready to get the big girls!

I don't recall how this happened, but at some point Jackson realized the water balloons were a waste of time and the hose was a much more efficient way to get everyone wet...  

It's hard to tell who was having more fun, Jackson or Kennedy? :)

Miss McKinley didn't participate in our water fun but she was an excellent spectator! :)

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Sunday afternoon we had an impromptu egg hunt with our neighbors and as well as their and our guests. Since we had attended two egg hunts already I hadn't planned to have one at our house. Easter morning Reagan informed me that the Easter Bunny should have left eggs for us to find. So, when our neighbor, Terry, invited us to join their egg hunt Grand-Dad and I quickly put together not quite 150 eggs so Reagan, Kennedy, Heidi and Holden could join in the fun (Jackson was taking his nap). It was alot of fun and I especially enjoyed watching Holden collect eggs in the dump truck. Too funny! :)

 Reagan finding a tricky egg

 Anytime we showed Kennedy where an egg was she refused to pick it up. We were just trying to help her since she and Holden were the youngest but I guess she considered that cheating. This girl is clearly related to her father... Anyhoo... she was sad when she got to the end and didn't have very many eggs. Grammy and I quickly put some together for her to find on our deck by herself. Here is Mr. Terry helping her find an egg hidden on the mirror of a car. I don't know if she was desperate to find an egg at this point or if it was just more acceptable for Mr. Terry to help her than Grammy and me. Who knows!?!? All I do know is she is one independent little nut!

 Megan, Reagan and Macey

 Aunt Dorothy and Holden checking out his dump truck full of eggs

 Everyone checking out their findings

 How cute are these two discussing their eggs?

 Love this beautiful picture of Miss Heidi!