Slow Days of January

Things have slowed down from the craziness of December and I am actually enjoying a little bit of the down time.  With the exception of the girls having gymnastics twice a week, we don't have any other regular weekly activities going on.  Our weekends have been nice and other than attending 5 kid birthday parties so far for the month of January the weekends have also been pretty uneventful.  This past Saturday we took advantage of the above average warm weather and spent an entire afternoon with friends at a local park.  The kids were highly entertained climbing the cave rocks, jumping rocks at the bottom of the waterfall and feeding the ducks.  The kids muddy tennis shoes and pant legs were proof of an enjoyed afternoon out in the sunshine. 















Last week brought the 100th day of school for the girls!  To celebrate Jaidyn dressed up as a 100 year old woman and Addy made a "100 Days Smarter" crown at school.





I found this note in Jaidyn's backpack.  Sweet, yet hilarious!  The boys are always so nice to include her in their daily recess soccer games. 


 Levi found himself quite funny imitating his Papa Dave!  For pictures, Papa always has a big smile, but 9 times out of 10 his eyes are closed. 
 

Tuesday was a big mail day for Wes as he has been anticipating the arrival of his new hunting bow for over a week.  Jaidyn is becoming his right hand man with all this hunting business.  She is even took time to target shoot with her pink BB gun using the shed to lean her targets up against.
 


Just enjoying each other...yes it happens occassionally!

Welcoming 2013

There's nothing too exciting to report this first week of January but the slowness of the week in terms of the kids activities has allowed me to deep clean the clutter in the house, read a book and simply enjoy the kids being home.  We all were supposed to get to hang all day at the house together yesterday, but Wes got called out to work right as we sat down for Mass and was out until after 7pm last night.  The kids and I didn't make it through Mass by ourselves and ended up making a run for the exit even before Communion as Reid was in prime form even managing to slam down the kneeler on the poor lady's toe who was sitting next to me.  Anyone want to make bets that we probably get an entire pew to ourselves next time??

I just have a few pictures from the new year to share...

We had a nice low key night with friends ringing in 2013 with some wine, great food, champagne and games of Catch Phrase.  All the couples chipped in to hire babysitters so that way the kids were entertained and not bugging us every minute throughout the evening.





Addy filled up her chore chart and chose to have a date night with Daddy.  They went out to eat at HuHot and had a fantastic time.  I really got the short end of the stick with this one as I was stuck at home eating frozen pizza with the rest of the kids.  :(


Jaidyn felt the need to come up and model the fact that she was able to wear every pair of underwear in her drawer at once.  She's crazy!


The kids worked incredibly hard to build this little snow guy!  They were scraping snow from all directions to make a pile big enough to work with.  


They both chose to wear their "fashion" glasses on the first day back at school hoping to fool their classmates and teachers in to believing they got the real deal over Christmas break!  Poor Addy, hers are about 3 sizes to big for her tiny face!


 Jaidyn bribed Levi in to eating a huge piece of broccoli out of his cheesy noodle broccoli soup and succeeded! 


A birthday party with great friends for Levi's best buddy and his younger brother at the fire department!  




What kind of parents let their child play on an obstacle course with a sucker in his mouth??