Happy Valentine's Day!

Both Alex and Abby enjoyed putting together Valentine's for their classes. Brad and I were traveling on Valentine's Day itself, but celebrated early with the kids before we left. Grandma Kathy was able to volunteer at Alex's party in my place and make it to Abby's school in time for her musical performance that day! They are both really into Alvin and the Chipmunks right now, so the book A Chipmunk Valentine, has been a popular one around here. The photo of the two of them in the chair reading together was not even staged, just a good way for them to share the book!

Is It Sunny In Here?

Scooter

Scooter always has to be where the action is. Whether that means he's sharing a chair with Abby, tubside at bathtime, or sleeping right in front of the kitchen sink after dinner. Kind of hard to load the dishwasher with a huge cat blocking the footpath!

Snowbunnies

On Friday, January 20, we had our only "big" snowfall of the winter. It amounted to 9" and snowed all day long. We shoveled twice and had some teenagers snowblow the driveway once. Traffic was completely snarled by early afternoon forcing Brad to turn around and kill a few extra hours at work before heading out. By a week later it had already warmed back up and we could see our green grass again!

Pinewood Derby

Alex participated in his first Pinewood Derby a few Thursday nights ago. It is amazing how long it takes to run 40ish cars down the track two at a time! We enjoyed checking out all the other designs and watching each den race.

Braids!

Abby got a trim the other day and the stylist braided her hair when she was done. Abby liked this so much that she slept in them. I should've taken an "after" picture once we took the braids out!

A Studious Breakfast

...in mom's reading glasses!