Sledding at Home

As you can see, we've had yet another terrific winter of plenty of snow!

Yes, that's the hill of snow nearly to the top of the pig barn, yet again.

The kids LOVE it, of course.

They fight over who gets to pull Eli, which is a bargain for me. :)

Homemade Play-dough

A couple curious questions "Mom, how are crayons made? How are markers made?" and...

"Mom, how do they make play-doh?" prompted us to find some You-tube videos and learn.

That lead to making our own play-dough and also some brain-training.

Did you know that dyslexic kids are re-trained by various methods...

one important one being shaping letters and numbers with play-dough?

The kids had a blast cooking up the dough and coloring it and kneading into shapes.

And little did they know, they were learning to make their letters correctly.

As you can see below, Miles still needs a little help with that "s", 

but it was too cute to correct for the picture, haha!

Kitchen Help

Don't the girls look so pretty washing eggs this morning?

I love how they pick out the most flowery, expressive outfits,

 and then put fun apron on top of it all.

Such good helpers, they are. I'm blessed to have them.

And top of it all, they were singing. :)

Such joy!

 

He's On His Way Up

Thankfully, he's got a pile of "nervous-nellie" siblings who stick with him the entire climb.

:)

"Is this ok, Ceney?"

"Oh, it's you, mom!"

"Watch me go up, mama!"

 

WI Dells Trip - My Pictures

And here are just a few more pictures...

I didn't bring along my good camera so I don't have any nice shots.

But it's a memory anyways!

playing on the floor in the hotel room

sydney and eli on their way to the waterpark

celene and hannah excited to go swimming!

so much fun!

playing water gun wars

samantha and adalyn having a quick lunch

this is how we bathe around here ;)

mommy snuggles in the arcade

this is as far as celene got in the ropes course

miles and daddy conquering their fears

celene preferred the aquarium mini golf

all the cousins in front of a mini village in one of restaurants

 

WI Dells Family Trip

Last week we spent 3 days at the famous Wilderness Resort in WI Dells with Shawn's siblings and their families. 

We all had a great time and are looking forward to planning it again, maybe for next winter. 

As of now, I don't have my pictures off my camera yet, but I know Grams is anxious to see them. :)

Grams, if you click on this link, it will bring you to a video of pictures that Sydney made for everyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbJsVunpPRE&feature=sharenoembed

 

A Question

The other day, at dinner, Miles asked:

"Mom, do you ever sin?"



...aaaannd...just how do you answer a question like that?