Warm Weather

We've had such wonderful weather lately. In the 70s! Friday after school we had ice cream cones in the front yard. Gary enjoyed his!
Felicity enjoyed hers, too!

Nathan certainly enjoyed his!

Look how much happier she is with an ice cream cone in each hand! Gary got tired of his, and somehow, Felicity ended up with it. (I'm still not quite sure how that happened!)

Hunter and I enjoyed ours too, don't worry!

Happy St. Patricks Day!!

Nathan's haircut.......finally!!
This is our St. Patrick's Day cake we made. The boys had a blast decorating it! We gave it to some neighbors who are from Ireland. They loved it!

Hunter visited the 4th grader's Native American studies exhibit and was thoroughly inspired by the bow and arrows. You can guess what he made as soon as he got home!

First Pig Tails of the Season!!

Easter outfits!

Here's what I've been working on lately. An easter dress for Felicity, a vest for Gary, and ties for all the big boys. So far this is what I've gotten done! Now I just have a tie for one of the big boys and Ben left to do! Of course, I'll be making myself a skirt out of the same blue.... but I'm not sure how big I'll be then, so I'm waiting for the last minute to do that.

Winter vacation

The kids and I drove up to Nana & Grandpa's house for winter break! So much fun with snow, cousins, sisters, parents, etc.

I sure love him!

Here's Nathan on his actual birthday. He isn't a fan of cake, so we did an ice cream cake! SO delicious!!!

The snow was perfect! Hours and hours were spent outside, sliding, and making tracks, and playing, etc. It was wonderful to watch. I'm so glad that even though we live in the city right now, that my boys aren't "city boys".

All three of them out in the far back just enjoying it all.

If you look really closely you'll see Hunter at the tippy tippy top of this pine tree. He was so pleased at how high he got! He's been climbing trees with Nathan since he was 2 so, thankfully, I wasn't nervous in the least! I've gotten used to it!

The 5 of us!

Some indoor playing with cousin time. This happens to be a boat, in case you were wondering. Hunter just fell out. It was great to see them using every bit of their imaginations together!

Nathan's early birthday

We recently celebrated Nathan's birthday. A little early, since we weren't going to be all together as a family on his real birthday. He requested that we go to VanCortlandt Park and sled, so we did!
The first hill.... with Gary waiting at the top for his turn.

This was actually on the way back to the car... Ben was pulling all three little ones on the sled. Tired out kids!! (Great Dad!!)

This was the 2nd hill, and the better one. They started up a little further back from where they are now, and crossed the path where I'm standing to take the picture. Then the go down through some turns and cross the lower path also. It was a great run!

Back to the first hill again, for Gary's turn. I love his face! Such good brothers!

This one is when we were first starting out. The two big boys and Ben had a snowball fight.

Snow Day!!

10 inches fell yesterday. It was declared by the mayor to be a snow day before it even started snowing!

The three boys had a wonderful time in it! Snowballs, trampoline, forts, sliding, etc!

Here's Gary on the trampoline. With all the snow on it the effect wasn't quite the same!

Felicity was content to be inside with me!