January Happenings

 One of them likes the car wash....the other doesn't,

 Such a great big sister!

 Coop and I went on a date to Costa Vita.

 This is what happens when you wake up at 5:30am. You fall asleep in random places by 9:30am.

 Oh the cool things they do while I am away (or doing homework, which is probably the case).

Interesting choice...

...for a reading place.

Pinewood Derby

Last night was Mason's second year taking part in the pinewood derby race for cub scouts. This years car did much better than last years, but it didn't take first, second, or third.

 

  

Selfies with Great Grandparents

I cannot express how grateful I am to have these two wonderful people in my life. I have very vague memories of my great grandparents and not very fond memories of my grandparents on either side. So, I feel extra blessed that Jeff's grandparents have taken me in as their own. 

What's even better is that our kids are able to see them often because we live in the same city as all of our parents and Jeff's grandparents.

One morning we stopped in for a visit with Great Grandpa and Grandma Long. The girls enjoyed taking selfies with them.

Do you want to build a snowman?

I wonder how many blog posts have been titled that?

 Our snow fall this winter has been pretty pathetic and to make it even worse, it hasn't been good packing snow. It finally snowed a decent amount overnight, so after the boys were off to school, Shiloh, Kinley, and I headed out to build a snowman. Unfortunately, it started to rain minutes after we came in, so we didn't get to enjoy our snowman for very long.

 Building a snowman inspired the girls to make snowmen out of their blankets.

Then we did the next best thing to do with blankets. Roll up like burritos of course!

Little Helpers...Big Changes

 I've wanted to change the color of our feature wall in our living room for quite some time now. If you know me, you know that I love love love changing our house around. I would love to actually move every few years just for the change, but out of respect for my husbands sanity, I get my "fix" by switching around rooms, painting walls, re-doing the landscaping in the yard, etc.

Just before Christmas, like the tree was up and everything, I convinced Jeff to move our computer desk to a different room, so this left a big open space in our living room. After re-arranging the furniture in that room, I noticed some areas where the paint on this wall had chipped off. Since I didn't have any paint to left to do touch ups I had to repaint the wall. Oh darn. :)

Friday was my last free weekday before starting winter semester, so I enlisted the help of these cuties while the littlest one took a nap. They actually did really well. No major spills or mishaps.

 The finished product plus two cute little ladies.