Mission today: make children happy!

Kind of like this. These were actually taken yesterday, when I had about an hour respite from my work and we ventured out into the backyard in the 40ish degree weather. How did we keep warm? We (well, mostly Caleb) ran around a lot. And why don't we have coats on? Because we were optimistic about the temperature out there and well, just generally had no clue. It actually warmed up when the sun was shining, but even so, just under an hour was enough for me!
(Caleb, on the other hand, could have stayed out there all day.)

What is he so excited about? The 40 degree weather, no doubt!

What is he doing with that baby walker toy, you ask?

Not sure. I was going to get rid of it and he found it outside.

It made him happy, though!

The sun was actually bothering Ariana's eyes.

Success as a mother: making your baby smile.

He's in a ditch. Stuck with his walker.

There's this huge ditch at the edge of our yard. Erosion? Yikes.

Gotta go do more of that today.

Snow then, snow now

We are all packed and ready to go. This evening at about 5 p.m. Caleb said, Mommy I want to go to sleep, because when I get up it's time to go to Disney World. Awww, so sweet. I could eat that kid up. We have one more number to cross off on our calendar... I don't know if we'll remember it at 4 a.m.

I will leave you with these snowy photos, which we took last weekend - at a time when it was a joy that there is snow on the ground. Ironically, tonight the snow threatens to ruin our vacation if it falls early enough and in large enough quantities. Let's hope not. Let's hope we fly south just in time before the wintry weather hits our town.

We all watched while Daddy worked.

Watched and supervised. We're good at that.

Our first snowman.
Snowbaby.

Apparently our neighbor has a friend with a tractor plow

Snow Day

It is snowing!

Snow dance