The last few days

Elisabeth has this crazy fine hair. She comes by it honestly; mine is fine too. If you don't condition it with conditioner (as opposed to 2 in 1 shampoo/conditioner) every time you wash it, it's a rats nest the next day. This was one of those days. So before we left the house she had a quick dip in the laundry room sink. She thought it was hilarious.

Andrew has been sick for the last week and a half. Saturday was gorgeous so I felt like I should tackle some yard work. While I tried to reclaim some of our yard from the blackberries, the kids played in the sand, erm, ice box.


While I was looking for a wheel barrow, I remembered I was supposed to be taking pictures of Jade for her fifth birthday. Being as it was so gorgeous, I went to see if Kathi and Jade were around. They were, I took pictures. They're on Facebook...


Later, we went to the playground to burn off some more steam. It was cold, but beautiful.




Sunday I had a party lite party to go to. Afterwards I dragged my family out for a drive through Fort Langley. Look at all the snow!


This is what the view out my kitchen window was like this morning.

Elisabeth was pretty excited about the snow.

So we built a snow man! The snow was perfect for snowballs.






Davey was having trouble with his socks falling down. Here he's crying because Randall came over to smell his feet. Davey thought Randall was going to eat them.






Here's Randall...he doesn't like snow much.



As Davey asked this afternoon, "How do you like our invitable snowman?"


MNN!




So. The snow was fun. We enjoyed having one last go at playing in it. Now spring can come :)

Oh hey, doesn't this tree look like an owl?!

There's more snow in the forecast...

BRRRRRRR!

Yesterday Tink and I decided to see if the roads were clear/non slippery enough to walk to the school. Sure enough, there were only a few places where I actually had to walk in the road, and with the stroller it didn't matter if there were a few occasional slippery patches. It was SO nice to be out in the fresh air again.

Davey was excited to be walking home and thought I should take his picture. Fortuitously, I had packed the camera.

We spent some time at Grandma's house, then ran a few errands. Then we stopped at the park. Davey didn't even remember having been there before. Even though Grosspapa took him last fall.

I remember when Davey was too scared even to try this part of the playground. Yesterday he zoomed across so fast I could hardly get a picture. Wow.

Here's the baseball field behind our house.

Tink's favorite was the slide. She loved climbing up this thing.






I brought them over to the wooden bleachers, hoping to get some close ups with the wood as a backdrop. But when they saw the bleachers they decided I was going to ge a show.

This is Davey drumming/singing and Tink playing guitar and singing.

Now Davey's singing while Tink tries out some dance moves. I told you she's been paying close attention to those Gap ads...

And sitting in the snow in the parking lot.

What we did up until lunch...

Tink and Davey decided to fertilize the driveway this morning.


This is our road. You can see there's still a bit of snow on the road. Most of the snow is gone of the lawns/fields now (depending where you're located), but there's still quite a bit anywhere there were piles of snow. I was looking at the weather forecast on the weather network and supposedly we're going to get more snow this week. I sure hope not.


We stopped for lunch at iHop.

This is Tink pretending to be mad.

Davey colouring with two crayons at once. See? One in each hand.

Tink enjoying some coffee in a creamer cup. Eventually I gave up and just gave her her own mug to drink from. She'll drink coffee but not her apple juice (hmn, maybe that's why she's not asleep yet?!)