craziness

the wireless internet didn't want to work all day so i could post these pictures of the craziness of our last 24 hours. tonight we're not expecting any more snow to *fall* but the wind is whipping around the additional 16" we got this go round.


the kids played outside in it most of the day.
the boys enjoyed sliding/jumping/doing flips off of the shed roof into the mounds of snow below.
even pete (he's 4).
i told the 2 little boys to be thankful they had two big brothers because i never would've let them do that without them.


this is looking out the atelier window....
yes, it is covered with snow. it is *that* windy.

and this is a picture of mike's frostbite that he actually got a few years ago while visiting my sister in michigan. it flares up any time he gets really cold. i know because when i was in college (messiah, fall of '84) my roommate and i walked to mcdonalds and i had a hole in my boot and got frostbite on my big toe. every time it gets cold it flares up the same way.

ah, well.
wasn't it helen keller who said life is an adventure or nothing at all?

muffin tin lunch

once in a while we make lunch in a muffin tin to make it more fun and exciting.
it's a sure way to make the whole meal disappear.

we went swimming in the pool

pete
3 years 7 months

mike
6 years 2.5 months

got some new playmobil

all their toys and most books are already packed up.
this is so confusing for a 3yo.

snow wars

jack-10 and nick-15 (being silly yet again with the hat) store their snowballs strategically behind this tree

check out all the snowballs mike-5 and pete-3 stored on the swing--

let the snow war begin!

pete was not impressed (with the snowball fight or the picture taking. he went inside).