I know...I know...

The blog entries have been few and far between lately. All I can say is that Spring needs to get here fast! Since the most exciting thing I did today was to scrub the lime scale off of the bathroom sink, I'll leave you with these photos taken last week.

Go for the Gold...ducky that is!

Quite a while ago I found these cute gold, silver, and bronze rubber duckies at Michaels. I knew we had to find something fun to do with them. So today we held the family winter olympics. We challenged the Painter and Bohrer families and the games were on. The Bohrer family even showed up in dressed in the same color! Impressive!

We started with opening ceremonies with the olympic torch and since we're all American, the playing of the Star Spangled Banner

Our first challenge was to build a tower with marshmallows and toothpicks - tallest tower wins.

The Build a Snowman race was next. Wrap your snowman in a roll of toilet paper, add a scarf and buttons, fastest racer wins.

Ice cube curling - We also had ski jumping on the Wii and snowball toss using marshmallows.

There are 9 kids between the 3 families. That makes it easy with 3 divisions with 3 kids each. No one takes 4th place in our olympics!

Our little kids division: Rachel - Gold, Josiah - Silver, Hayden - Bronze

The middle kids: Emma - Gold, Lauren - Silver, Jacob - Bronze

The big guys: Aaron - Gold, Bryson - Silver, Abbey - Bronze

..and lots and lots of fun!

I'm a skating geek!

February 20, 1988 I clearly remember watching this man skate for the olympic gold medal

I remember all of us cheering that the American Brian had won. That olympics got me following figure skating. Brian Boitano has always been my favorite skater. In fact, I have that Sports Illustrated. Fast forward almost 22 years to the day. For 5 olympics a russian had won the men's gold medal. When the scores finally came up and showed that Evan Lysacek had won you would have found me cheering just as much as I did 22 years ago.

Only this time I had to try to keep it down to not wake up my kids!

What can I say....I love the olympics!

Frosty morning

What to do on a snow day

Bake a pie!

Top it with vanilla bean ice cream and enjoy!

Snow Day #2

Snow Day

No school today. If I'm placing bets, I'd say there's no school tomorrow either. Snow is beginning to fall again and it's getting windy. Aaron spent half the day out in the snow. Rachel played out in the backyard with Dolly.

This dog loves the snow. She runs around in it, eats it, and will lay down on it and take a nap. She's not suffering one bit. :)

While Aaron went sledding with the Bohrer's, Josiah stayed inside with Rachel and me. This is how I caught them watching their movie. Chillin' out and sucking the thumbs! Best quote of the day was by Josiah. I asked him if he wanted to give the dog a biscuit. He looked at me and said, "Naaa....your dog's dead". I then explained that we had another dog and once he saw Dolly he was ready to help me out. He must have thought I was nuts...wanting him to feed a dog that had been gone for over a year. :)