Happy Birthday to a Funny Boy!

Having grown up with a birthday in mid-December I know how important it is for everyone to remember that "My Birthday is NOT Christmas!"

So when the Comedian's birthday rolled around on Dec. 19th we packed everyone up and headed South to play in the snow with cousins and celebrate the new SIX year old in our family. It was a funfilled day that started off at Uncle Mark's and Aunt Tina's with spaghetti (his favorite meal of all time) followed quickly by sleigh riding down the hills of Peteetneet the Historical School where I attended Head Start as a young girl. From there we went to Grandma's house for presents, yummy cake, and Creamsicles (ice-cream on a stick). After much playing and fun we headed back home. All three boys were asleep before we had been on the road for half an hour and slept all the way home.

A few days later we had a group of friends come over for more sledding, exploring of the awesome snow-forts in the front yard, warming up with some hot chocolate aka Snowman Soup, cake and more Creamsicles. Then we decorated Snowman plates, played a rousing game of Don't Eat Pete followed by lots of fun building Lego creations.

Truly a wonderfully FUN celebration of a sweet boy turning Six!

Flying South....

Last Tuesday I went for a walk with the two youngest boys around 8:30 in the morning it was so warm we only wore jackets. There is a wetland restoration area less than a block or so from our house and they have a paved walking trail all the way around it. So we went on a hunt for signs of spring....You'll be amazed at what we saw

A pair of ducks swimming in the river
Grass peaking out from under the melting snow
Puddles to splash in
A few Robins and other early spring birds flying through the trees
Signs of a couple of beavers starting to build a new home
Fuzzy buds on a few trees
and even a Mosquito that tried to bite my cheek

It was very reassuring that Spring was definitely on her way. It was totally the best thing for the winter doldrums that we've all been facing. I didn't post about it then because I hadn't brought along my camera and wanted to go back and get some pictures to go along with it all....

Saturday we did some yard clean-up and I even put the snow shovels away in the shed and set the leaf rake next to the porch. Well this morning we woke up to a blanket of snow, so I set off with my leaf rake to make a semi-path over to the shed to get the snow shovels out.

The Comedian says, "It will be Christmas again soon!" He's uber excited because his birthday is just a couple weeks before Christmas.

And I just decided to go out and get some wood and start a fire to warm us all up and saw a large V of Canadian Geese headed south again....so maybe he's onto something.

I knew there was a reason that I hadn't put the last of the Christmas decorations in the eves....

Oh the weather outside is frightful...but the fire is sure delightful.....

Wishful Thinking. . .

Snow, Snow Go Away!
We want you to melt so we can play!

We miss all the things we used to do outside we want to play ball and ride our bikes.

We miss our family walks and don't want to wear our coats.

We want to go camping, fishing, 4-wheelin' and ridin' in boats.

So Old Man Winter go fly a kite!

Snow, Snow, Go Away . . . . .

So my little engineer has finally decided that he too is tired of the snow and cold. He asked his papa the other day when Spring would finally be here. When he heard that it had to warm up enough to melt all the snow he decided that we had to do something to help Father in Heaven and Mother nature along.

After thinking about it for a bit he decided that if we were to move our stove and microwave outside, open the oven door and turn them all on high that before long the snow would melt and then springtime would be here. If we could convince all our neighbors to do the same thing it would come just that much faster.

When Papa confronted him with the electrical requirements of such an endeavor......

Mr. Engineer replied, "Oh I forgot about the power"

So now he is off to find another grande plan to get rid of this cold and wet stuff.

Baby it's Cold Outside

We woke up to a frosty, frosty day last Friday. It was so cold that my fingers froze in just the few seconds it took to snap a picture.

While it may look like a winter wonderland, you should notice that even the frost had frost. Truly beautiful and frozen.



















And me? I'm staying inside with a warm toasty fire and some hot cocoa. One of the best parts about Cache Valley in the winter time is definitely my fireplace.

Update: I fixed the lighting on the photos in Photoshop and now they reflect a wee bit more of the awesomeness of the site. Notice the frosty mittens on the Snow man?