Happy Birthday to me!

So, my birthday was last saturday - I had a great day. My coworkers had some birthday treats at work on friday. After work some of the girls and I went out for breakfast. Mom came up and surprised me w/a birthday cake. Boston cream pie! Yummy! My Dad and brother Andrew were out of town but everyone else came up to celebrate my birthday w/me. It was awesome way to celebrate my birthday. The boys surprised me w/a spa day! Yeah me!

With all of the snow and sick kiddos, the boys hadn't gotten to see their new cousin Colin. Unfortunately for Colin, he has a lot of cousins to compete with and he doesn't really do anything! But I am sure that he will fit right in when he gets a little bigger!

I spent my birthday in the best possible way with family and friends! Hope you have a good week!

Blizzard 2011

So last week we had a blizzard and were housebound for a few days. The boys had 3 snow days and now they are going to have to make up those days before the end of the year. :( We were able to stay safe and warm at home during the worst of the blizzard. But I really can't wait for spring!
The boys did a great job helping w/the shoveling but after awhile it seemed pointless because by the time they finished you couldn't tell that where they had shoveled. So here are some pics of how we spent the rest of the day warm inside!

And here are pics of the morning after the blizzard. Another snow day for the boys!

Again the boys did a great job of helping clear the snow and dig us out! But it was beautiful and they were able to mix some fun in w/their work!

The boys loved the deep drifts!

I think the boys have a new understanding of all the work snow can create. Noah and Eli helped a elderly lady across the street by shoveling her drive. And Eli and Lucas helped me clear the sidewalk of our neighbor behind us so that all the kids who walk to school by our house have a clear path! The boys definately deserved a break after all their hard work!

I treated the boys to some time at Power Play. They had a great time and truely earned their reward.

The boys and I had a great time last week but I sure hope that we don't get anymore snow! I keep telling the boys at this rate they will be going to school till July.

Volcanos and their parts!

Eli had a volcano project for school and he decided to do it on the parts of a volcano. Here are some pics of his project!

He did a very good job on his project and Nana was able to lend him some volcanic rocks from the Hawaiian volcano that she visited this summer.

For my crochet buddies!

I have been busy this winter w/lots of crochet projects. Lots of babies and friends need to be warm this winter! I wish I would have taken pics of all the stuff I have done over the years but here are pics of some of the scarfs I have done.
The pic doesn't do the scarf justice, but it is a mix of brown, green, blue. It turned out really great, and my friend Kayla LOVED it!

Here is a closer look at the pattern, Jen if you want the pattern let me know!

Here is a close up of one of the other scarf I did. I just double stiched these scarfs and allowed the multi colored yarn to make the pattern. They turned out great!

Here are the 3 scarfs for the BFFs! I have more scarfs to make so I better get busy!

Band Festival

The boys had their annual band festival. Well, actually Eli had been in strings last year - so this was his debut but it was Noah's 2nd festival. I chaperoned the boy's trip to the highschool to practice so here are the pic from their morning practice.

Eli during their performance that night.

Noah during the performance. I am so proud of all the hard work the boys put into practicing. They have a lot of fun practicing w/each other at night and make up their own music sometimes. We have been pretty busy lately so I will have more updates soon, come back and check it out. And those in this midwest blizzard with us - stay warm and safe!