Monday after school I sent the kids outside to play in the snow, because I knew it wouldn't last. It was perfect snowman building snow which is rare around these parts. Rawley made a great snow monster and I wanted to share him with all of you.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Spring Snow?
We always get snow the beginning of Spring around here. I have learned not to jump the gun when the weather starts turning warm because we tend to have one last snow storm of the season to give us a little reminder of what we just went through for the last 6 months. I am really hoping this is that storm. Not a huge storm but enough to put a slight damper on my weekend. This also was not welcomed news considering I was running a race Saturday night! Turned out to be just fine for running. Not to cold and the snow was actually kind of pretty! This was my second year running this exact race, and I was able to take 6 minutes off my time from last year. My time was 38 minutes and a few seconds or so. Can't remember exactly and don't want to look it up! It was nice to have Pat and my mom cheer me on this time, and even see me cross the finish.
Monday after school I sent the kids outside to play in the snow, because I knew it wouldn't last. It was perfect snowman building snow which is rare around these parts. Rawley made a great snow monster and I wanted to share him with all of you.
Monday after school I sent the kids outside to play in the snow, because I knew it wouldn't last. It was perfect snowman building snow which is rare around these parts. Rawley made a great snow monster and I wanted to share him with all of you.
Happy St. Patty's Day
I know I should really get these things posted earlier to the actual day but I am finding it hard to find a few minutes to even get downstairs to our computer. So today the laundry is not getting done so that I can update a little more on here.
I love St. Patrick's Day and so does everyone in our house. Strange considering there is absolutely no Irish blood running through these veins. My kids actually think that this is Pat's second "birthday". Somewhere down the line he told them that the day was named after him, and now that is all they think about when the day actually comes. We have a couple of leprechaun traps that have survived Kindergarten, but this year I kind of took it easy and only set up Rawley's. Wednesday nights are very busy at our house so I had to set it up without the kids, promising of course to actually do it. So here is our small but hopefully effective trap.
We didn't catch one this year but he did bring us some fun treats!
I have wanted to do this for my kids lunch last year, but hot lunch day fell on St. Patrick's Day. So this year I got to surprise my older 2 kids with this. I think they enjoyed their green lunches!
The whole gang in their green garb. No pinches here!
We survived and it was a lot of fun, I would call it organized chaos! Which seems to be the trend around here a lot these days! Hence the new blog name!
I love St. Patrick's Day and so does everyone in our house. Strange considering there is absolutely no Irish blood running through these veins. My kids actually think that this is Pat's second "birthday". Somewhere down the line he told them that the day was named after him, and now that is all they think about when the day actually comes. We have a couple of leprechaun traps that have survived Kindergarten, but this year I kind of took it easy and only set up Rawley's. Wednesday nights are very busy at our house so I had to set it up without the kids, promising of course to actually do it. So here is our small but hopefully effective trap.
We didn't catch one this year but he did bring us some fun treats!
I have wanted to do this for my kids lunch last year, but hot lunch day fell on St. Patrick's Day. So this year I got to surprise my older 2 kids with this. I think they enjoyed their green lunches!
The whole gang in their green garb. No pinches here!
We survived and it was a lot of fun, I would call it organized chaos! Which seems to be the trend around here a lot these days! Hence the new blog name!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Family Photos!
My awesome older brother actually agreed to take our family pictures again this year! We had a fun time and the weather actually cooperated! Here are some of my favorites.
Hopefully he will be willing to do it again! Hint Hint!
January!
This month was fairly uneventful! So here are the most fun things! We woke up one morning to this!
Okay not necessarily fun, and not how I wanted to spend my Monday morning. Oh and did I mention it was freezing!!! All I can say is it better not happen again!
This on the other hand was pretty exciting!
Yep 2 teeth in one night! He was a trooper putting up with all the pushing and pulling! And now the awkward photo stage begins!
Okay not necessarily fun, and not how I wanted to spend my Monday morning. Oh and did I mention it was freezing!!! All I can say is it better not happen again!
This on the other hand was pretty exciting!
Yep 2 teeth in one night! He was a trooper putting up with all the pushing and pulling! And now the awkward photo stage begins!
Okay
Yes I am awaiting my 10 lashings for being very very behind on the events that have been happening with us lately. I think that there has been much procrastination on my part, and since I finally feel a little like blogging I will play catch up and fill you in on the last 3 months! Wow has it really been that long? This might take a little longer than I thought! So I guess I will start with December. I think I was feeling a little overwhelmed with December and for that reason decided to take a hiatus from blogging. The month always starts with a bang and goes out with a bang! Literally! We were lucky to get to the annual Johansen Christmas Party again. The kids love this party, and so do I. Really you can't go wrong with family, friends and good food. Plus a live nativity and visit from the man in red. Emmy got stage fright when it came time to do the nativity so she decided to sit this one out with Addy. Hadley got to be an angel and Rawley was one of the 3 wise men, and Santa did a good job with the gifts as well. I think the kids were pleasantly surprised how well Santa knows them.
School break was a little different this year. The kids were out an entire week before Christmas, which made shopping that much more difficult. I ended up having a lot of late nights to make up for not getting it all done early, but scored a kinect for the Xbox one night because of it. That thing was tricky to find! I guess there is one benefit to late night shopping and Walmart being open 24 hours. I also managed to get one other great deal for Emmy. She is our girly girl and this year I wanted to find a doll house for her and all of the princesses. The one I found was perfect and the $40 price adjustment I got after I bought it was even better! We were lucky to have all of Pat's family home for Christmas. His sister Devynn came for a month with her 2 boys, her husband Brian was here for a week. Laura and her family came for a week, Eric their oldest is living here and going to school so that made their decision easy. The other main reason for the family gathering was to celebrate Christmas with Pat's parents who were serving a mission for our church last year. It was so nice to see everyone again. It had been almost 4 years since we had seen Devynn, and we had never met Laura's youngest Marlee who is just a few months older than Addy. We had a nice low key Christmas. I love it when that happens! Here are a couple of pictures! I didn't want to overload this post with pictures so here are my favourites.
New jammies on Christmas Eve
The Tree
Addy and Grandpa P, I love that as soon as she got a hold of Lambchop she was in her snuggle mode. I don't think Grandpa minded that much either!
We rounded December up with more partying! We spent New Years Eve with my family opening our name gifts, eating lots and lots of food, playing the Kinect and ringing in the New Year! Always a fun time!
School break was a little different this year. The kids were out an entire week before Christmas, which made shopping that much more difficult. I ended up having a lot of late nights to make up for not getting it all done early, but scored a kinect for the Xbox one night because of it. That thing was tricky to find! I guess there is one benefit to late night shopping and Walmart being open 24 hours. I also managed to get one other great deal for Emmy. She is our girly girl and this year I wanted to find a doll house for her and all of the princesses. The one I found was perfect and the $40 price adjustment I got after I bought it was even better! We were lucky to have all of Pat's family home for Christmas. His sister Devynn came for a month with her 2 boys, her husband Brian was here for a week. Laura and her family came for a week, Eric their oldest is living here and going to school so that made their decision easy. The other main reason for the family gathering was to celebrate Christmas with Pat's parents who were serving a mission for our church last year. It was so nice to see everyone again. It had been almost 4 years since we had seen Devynn, and we had never met Laura's youngest Marlee who is just a few months older than Addy. We had a nice low key Christmas. I love it when that happens! Here are a couple of pictures! I didn't want to overload this post with pictures so here are my favourites.
New jammies on Christmas Eve
We rounded December up with more partying! We spent New Years Eve with my family opening our name gifts, eating lots and lots of food, playing the Kinect and ringing in the New Year! Always a fun time!
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