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! :)

Cousins in the Snow - January 2014

The winter of 2014 was super fun with an above average amount of snow for Kentucky. It makes me realize I should really live further north! :) Heidi and Holden came to play in the snow with us one day they had off school and as you can see a pretty good time was had by all! :)

 Trying to walk back up the ice on the driveway

 The boys had at least as much fun (if not more) shoveling with these child size snow shovels from Aunt Arla vs sledding.

 This is probably my favorite picture of the day - what two cute cousins! :) 

 The girls trying their hand at snowboarding with our wonderful neighbors

I had to include this one sweet picture of McKinley all dressed up and ready to head outside to enjoy her first snow. This was actually a different day (our first snow was in November), but it was just too sweet not to include somewhere! Poor baby was all tuckered out from getting all dressed out and never actually managed to make it outside to enjoy the snow. lol :)

I also wanted to include this video Grand-Dad took of another fun snow day in January:

http://youtu.be/FB20jMTqTAo

Sure hope next winter we get as much wonderful snow to play in as we did this year! :)

Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween everyone! Even if it is 6 months late we hope you had a great one! :) We started our Halloween celebrations off with a couple of our Girl Scout friends at a local nursing home. The kids had a great time collecting candy and all the residents were so sweet and excited to see them!

After the nursing home we headed next door for the girl's gymnastics classes. While I couldn't get him in the pictures at the nursing home, Jackson agreed to smile for pictures with the promise of candy. I LOVE this duck costume, I think it's my favorite Halloween costume of all time! :)

 As per our tradition, Heidi and Holden joined us for Trick-Or-Treating around our neighborhood. Here's our happy crew ready to head out for candy! :)

 Jackson enjoying an early piece of candy - before leaving the house!

 Better watch out for these three beautiful red headed beauties!

 My not so cooperative picture taking munchkins

 Daddy taking off with his kiddos in the wagon

Something about this picture just seems so classic Halloween to me. Not sure what it is, but I really like this picture of this crew of cousins celebrating another Halloween together. :) 

 Reagan with two of our neighbor's kids

 Jackson checking out his loot

 We went to a neighbor's Halloween party for a bit (which I managed not to get a single picture of - no one who knows me will believe that!) and as per tradition we then headed over to the Hamlin's to trick-or-treat. Everyone enjoyed the girl's wigs including Uncle Barry who made the best Princess Merida of the night hands down! lol :)

Thanks to everyone who made Halloween so much fun! :)