FUN? In the Snow and Emmy's Point of View

Last night after dinner the girls and I went outside to build snowmen in the front yard (the only bit of snow on our property that hasn't been trampled down!) Great plan... it was all good. Until I stepped out of the house forgetting that the temperature had dropped back below freezing and had turned one section of our sidewalk into a skating rink! Man did I go down hard! After I got over being mad at myself and just a bit irritated Jon helped get out the ice melt and we got that taken care of.

You'd think I would have learned my lesson. But, I was busy getting the snowman started and not paying attention and hit the same patch of ice again - Bam - fall #2! So I crawled over to Emmy and half-moaning, half-laughing, said, "Emmy, I am just getting too old!" She just looked at me and said, "It's ok Mommy. You can just go to heaven," and then she was back to working on the snowman. I laughed so hard! I may be getting old and I've always always always been clumsy, but let's hold out a little longer on a trip to heaven!

So - after a couple of falls and an hour in the snow.... here is our snowman family. We finished up just before it was too dark to see anything anymore.

A "Fresh" Start Just Around the Corner

I know I'm not the only one experiencing cabin/spring fever. The winter started out cold and fast up here and it feels like it will never end. Everyone's a bit on edge and the kids have a low tolerance for pretty much everything.

All of that to say.... it can't remain winter forever. Spring has to come. Even today as I was loading up 5 kids into the van after picking up Emmy from preschool I actually had to tell the kids to stay out of the mud - and that almost made me happy. Crazy... I know. But we haven't seen mud since last Fall!

It will be so good to see grass poking through hopefully before too long. We were outside yesterday morning playing in the backyard and I just kept thinking, "this snow is still so deep!" The backyard is completely hard-packed snow since the kids and dog have been tracking around on it all winter, but it's still a solid 8-10 inches of hard pack deep. That's going to take a while to melt. But eventually it will be warm again, the grass will be green, we'll see leaves on the trees and flowers in the yards. We just have to hang on!

Good Luck Grandpa and Grandma Holthe

Jon's mom is at Mayo Clinic this week to hopefully receive some help for health issues. Also, Jon's Dad will be having surgery to remove some cancer in a couple of weeks. We're praying that all goes well and they will both start feeling better soon!

Texting

Bria has decided she needs to learn how to text . . . I think I am scared!!! She thinks my life is pretty boring if I have to blog about this..... and she also wants her own cell phone. I want a million dollars too..... I don't think either thing is going to happen! :) Love you Bria - you have to wait for the cell phone though......

Girls' Rooms....

Here they are.... befores and afters of the girls' rooms.

Emmy's room before......

Emmy's room after!

Bria's room before.....

Bria's room after!

It's so nice to have the rooms completely cleaned up and rearranged and new curtains and the girls love the change!

3rd Time's A Charm?

We are back.... again.... with our 3rd computer in the past 2 weeks! Our original one crashed Valentine's Day weekend and this weekend the new "old" one from Sarah crashed as well! So, Sunday afternoon was spent at Best Buy picking out a new computer. I think this one will be excellent and we are praying for no problems! And we have a laptop now, so I can take it down to the playroom with me as well as using it upstairs. This is especially great right now while we are trying to reload all of our stuff.... again..... So, until I get a few more essential things done, here is an "oldy but a goodie" picture. :) Hopefully sometime today or tomorrow I can post the "before and after" pictures of the girls' rooms - with new curtains and completely rearranged. I did lose a few pictures through this whole process, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.