Friendly Farm

We had a fun time before school visiting friendly farm, where one of Caleb's friends had a birthday party. There were about 200 chickens/ducks that walked all around. 

We got to throw chicken feed to all of them. 

And they would all dart as fast as possible

Caleb was having the time of his life. 

As we're the older girls. Adalyn on the other hand did not enjoy the farm. It's too dirty!

They got to all feed a baby goat, just 5 or 6 days old

So cute!!!

This part, Adalyn actually enjoyed!

Caleb helped too!

Ali was bravest to let the cow lick food from her palm

This pig was ginormous!  Taller than Adalyn and a solid 600-700lbs. I never realized pigs were so tall!

Caleb loved making all the animal sounds

These little bunnies were just a week old. 

We had such a great time and what a fun little place to visit!

Friday Family Fun Nught

Tonight after dinner, we decided to head to the park for some fun!  Andie, Adalyn, Caleb and I headed off on bikes. (Caleb and Adalyn LOVE! the bike trailer!). Shawn and Ali met us over there with the car and Ali's bike. We took a few pictures of our adventures!

Dad and Caleb on the slide

Our little hanging monkey!

The older girls strike a pose

So cute !

Then some attempts at pictures together

Mom and the girls. (My super cheesy grin!)

And some funny face pictures

Ali joined us for the ride home, training wheels and all!  It's a mile and a half each way!  Way to go girls!!

Now I just need to get a bike and we can go together as a family! (the girls could use bigger bikes, too :)

Summer Vacation!!!

One of the nice things about having kids in school until mid June is that you really appreciate summer vacation once it's here!  We've had such a fun week so far. The kids have been super helpful, happy and we love our summer schedule. 

Each day we start out at the gym to get our exercise in. Then we plan one activity, one subject for learning, one major chore and dinner!  It's been great. 

We also love the fresh fruit and veggies as they come in season!

We have done dishes before going swimming

We have practiced our writing

And typed stories on the computer

The girls signed up for the summer reading program at the library and got a free book!

And with our latest little investment we're all set to ride bikes everywhere!!

At the end of our fun days of healthy habits, it's fun to sit down and watch a movie from the library!

Hope your all enjoying your summer as well! 

Kindergarten Graduation

Today was the kindergarten celebration!  

Our audience members

Ali received the "most imaginative" award!

Way to go Ali, we're so proud of you!

She had great teachers too!

Ms Schmidt and ms Masiello

Yeah for school almost being done!  They have a half day on Monday, then schools out!

Testing, testing...

Does this blog still work?  I've taken a short break (unintentional) and thought it would be good to start blogging again. We recently got new phones, so this is a test to see if I can make a post from my phone. If so...more pictures to come, since this now seems to double as the camera too!  

Happy Valentine's Day

I wanted to share a few quick video's of my adorable children.  We sure do have a great family and are surrounded by so much love!  Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

These sledding videos are back from January 28th.  It was 3 or 4 days after the snow had melted some.  We have since been to the "tennis courts" where there is an awesome hill!  The big girls and I went sledding last Saturday and it was a BLAST!  We didn't have the camera, but I'll remember it next time!

I was filming from inside the kitchen.  It was so cold, like 9 degrees, but they had fun for the 30 minutes I let them play. 

Next up, I hear this everyday, all day and finally got a small video of our lovely singer.  To say her and her sister's LOVE the Frozen soundtrack would be an understatement! 

A few weeks ago, for our family night activity, we were playing Duck, Duck, Goose.  Suddenly, Caleb joined it, and we were shocked that he was saying "duck."  He mumbles a whole lot, but his vocabulary is small.  Here is some of the fun.

Finally, Caleb is so easily entertained.  It you drop anything on the floor and it bounces, the laughs are non-stop.  A few nights ago, Shawn randomly spun his spoon on the high chair, and boy oh boy.  The laughs were 10x more than in the video.  He gets camera shy.  Such a cute little man!

Snow, Snow and more SNOW!

With the recent storms down south, I've been asked a few times now, "Aren't you glad you don't live in GA anymore?"  I simply have to smile at the question.  Yes, the south has been hit this year with snow and ice.  When it snow in 2011 UGA was closed for 4 days and quiet a few people were without power for 10 days.  People aren't prepared for it, because it's not a yearly thing.  They don't sale proper gloves, hats, snow pants, or warm coats for snow, because it is so rare.  It snowed once in 2009, when we first moved there and then twice in 2011.  That was it!

So, let me share with you, in pictures, of our last 24 hours and ask yourself, "Am I glad I don't live in GA?"

 It snowed all day on the 13th, and stopped around 7pm.  We got about 5 inches, on top of the 12 inches from last Wednesday and it was a snow day for school.

 Then we woke up on the 14th - and had probably 8-10 more inches.  Of course, this shows where they have plowed and dumped, but that pile is probably 6ft. tall.

 These ones are probably 5ft. tall

It's definitely beautiful!

 I walked across to the Y this morning, and the snow was up to my knees.  Glad I had my snow pants on.  I didn't attempt to climb up the mounds from plowing the parking lot.  Rather, I walked through was it usually the "pond" area, in a bunch of bushes, keeping it knee deep. 

 I attempted to show how tall this is, but it's more in the background.  I'm 5'6" and it comes to the top of my head.

 This picture was back on January 28th, after the snow had 4 days of melting down. Needless to say, here are the other stats.  We've had 4 snow days at school (which will start to tack on to June.  Last year, Keene was in school till June 24th making up snow days...YUCK!  Church was cancelled once, and we didn't make the hour and a half drive to Stake Conference once because of the snow from the day before.

There have also been many storms on the weekends, where it was after school and before church.  We got a bit of snow before Christmas, and dumped on the 26th of December.  Then dumped on again the 3rd of January, before our youth temple trip on the 4th.  Just to give a few examples.

So, the answer to the question/comment, "Bet you're glad you don't live in GA."  Is NO!  Weather wise....I'd much rather live in GA.  Yes, it snows once and they shut down for a week - but that's the point.  Snow once every 3 years is AWESOME! 

However, I do LOVE living in New England and we have had an awesome welcome to their cold winter's and all they entail - to which I say, "bring it on!"  When equipped with the proper gear, the snow is fun, and you can't help but enjoy it.  (and yes, I'm still entitled to get tired of it, when May rolls around and we still haven't had spring!)