sunday smiles

My most amazing man wearing his hat I finally finished! 

early february days

Landon injured himself while skiing on January 31st. Since then we have been pretty much staying put, hanging out and just doing at home. There's been lots of lego building and some valentines making. We've been working hard on our studies and having fun with lots of science at the moment. Most of William's work is independent and he does much at night. Teenager! He has also had to work a few days and archery once a week. Those are the days we venture out and do errands.  Plus we have been getting quite a bit of snow this February, which is already half over. Crazy!
Happy Weekend!

winter storm fun

We got a ton of snow over the past several days! It has been lots of fun outside sledding and having races. Missing in action is Landon as he has hurt his foot and is just taking it easy trying to recover.

3 years

We had a pretty awesome day celebrating our sweet girl.

It started with presents from her brothers. Harkin was so excited to "read" the book to her and help with the numbers. He's an expert, you know.
Then Landon came in with his. Issabelle was so very grateful to him, giving big hugs. It was all so loving. William waited until the afternoon to give his. She was so happy to have a new sticker book!

She wanted to go skiing so that's what we did. (pictures coming soon) The weather was beautiful. Sunny skies and temps in the 20's. We did jumps and trees and worked on our turns. She was so excited to have all of her brothers there.

We wrapped up around 3:00, came home and opened more presents and then had a breakfast dinner and chocolate cake. As you can see from one of her presents she loves bacon and eggs and that is what was what we made, with potatoes too. She is a good eater this one.

Then she ran around crazy with her new skirt on, played with some of her new toys for a bit and then crashed pretty hard. It was a fun day and can't believe it is already 3 years. Time is slipping away but I am trying to hold onto each moment every day.

a birthday gathering

We had our friends over to celebrate Issabelle's birthday. The little ones made a snowman craft and then we sang happy birthday to her . William was sweet and baked the cupcakes and made a snowman out of them. She thought it was fun to have all these people singing to her. Then the kids just played the afternoon away.

sunday smiles :: learning activities

january notes

Hard to believe the first month of 2018 is already gone. I started with a bang. I was a de-cluttering fool. And then we were all sick for a bit. So much so that Harkin ended up with bronchitis. The coldest days were here and we kept to inside for so long. The mountain even closed for a day so it was kinda crazy. We ran out of wood and were heating with oil for the first time ever.!

Then we got into a good rhythm. We worked hard at lessons most days and a few days a week the boys spent time on the mountain, either for fun or work in Will's case. I did not get to the mountain until the last week of the month. Twice though since we had a certain 3 year old who wanted to ski for her birthday. She had talked about if for months! Thankfully it was a pretty awesome day. Warmer temps and sun shining. We all skied together for the first time is so long. It was fun to see the big boys show us their tricks and then of course we had to do the terrain park and trees just like them. It was a fun day.

We seem to be staying home more often which I enjoy. We have so many activities and projects we can do and of course our big backyard.  I am looking forward to skiing more during February and March. 

The picture above was Harkin mapping out his world to his friends(stuffed animals)