Wednesday, February 19, 2014

THE LONG WINTER!


This has been the worst winter we have ever had thanks to the Polar Vortex. Of course Jared was gone during the worst of it and the kids and I were stranded at home for many days.... so we had lots of quality play time. 

One of the rare days we were actually able to go outside to play in the snow since it wasn't too frigid cold
Merick is always the life of the party!



One of my favorite parts about our house is that the hill in our back yard is perfect for sledding for our young kids. So they can go sled in the backyard themselves and we don't have to go anywhere!



The boys have put many miles on their vehicles doing bike/scooter races around the house this winter. 


Luckily Van has recently become interested in doing artwork and love to draw as you can see by the many pieces of artwork now hanging in our toy room. We have done many art projects this winter.


A day at the Pittsburgh Children's museum on a rare day that the roads were decent enough to drive there


Thank you legos for helping us survive long winter days! Even Ward will sit and build for a long time!


9 months and still such a happy girl!



 
Ward is obsessed with  tools. He spends hours putting screws in this wood and then sanding it down, sawing, hammering and doing it over and over again while pretending to build all kinds of things.
Many afternoons of dress-up!


Sunday, December 29, 2013

Beautiful Kids


I wanted to give a framed picture of the kids to Jared for Christmas, so I asked my friend to take a picture of them with her good camera. She ended up just doing a photo shoot of my kids for me just because she wanted to. Lucky me! We got a lot of great pictures out of it!












December



Merick learned to crawl just days before Christmas, just in time to be constantly trying to get to the wrapping paper on presents under the tree

Christmas Eve with cousins. Decorating cookies for Santa


The kids had so much fun having Cora and Gracie here for Christmas 
Christmas Morning!








Boys will be Boys

I love that Van and Ward can play together...and get into lots of mischief together now too. But they are so fun

 What my house looks like on a rainy day with 2 busy boys...notice the duct tape on the walls from the blanket fort that they of course destroyed

 They decided to get into our closet and dress up one day during quiet time and this is how I found them

My little tiger cubs.....these boys wrestle each other ALL THE TIME! They really are like little wild baby animals that are always pouncing on eachother. Any activity they do together always somehow ends up with them rolling around on the floor wrestling each other. It amazes me how it happens, but it keeps them happy.


Merick loves crawling on her brothers too, it won't be long before she is wrestling with them

Van Turns 5

 We had a Superhero Pinata birthday party for Van with some of the boys from church. It consisted of the boys attacking the villain pinatas with various superhero accessories until they were exhausted. They were a bunch of happy boys.
The villains

The Superheroes





Ward practicing his Hulk smash