Katie's Family Birthday Party

We had a family birthday party at Chuck E Cheese for Katie. All our family was able to come that lives in this area and everyone had a great time. Chuck E Cheese was packed that day but the kids had a blast. I love that Katie got to have fun on her birthday with family. They all played, ate pizza, opened presents, and had cake. Katie had been begging for Kit the American Girl Doll and my parents got her Kit. She was thrilled about it! She also loved her art supplies, squinkies and swim suit that the cousins got her. After the party we went back to my parents and they gave the girls Valentine gifts that were the American Girl mini dolls which they both wanted so badly. So thankful to celebrate my babies 5th birthday with family!

Snow/Ice Storm 2011

We had a LONG snow/ice week. It was the worst case of both that I have ever seen in my entire life in person. When we woke up Tuesday morning there was thick ice all over the roads. School had cancelled the night before because it was supposed to get bad. Little did we know there would be no school for 4 days. That night the ice was so hard on the windows I had a hard time sleeping. The girls were so excited to stay home from school but it wasn't really snow playing weather. Charley got to stay home also so that was great. We cooked Monkey Bread for breakfast and then I spent the rest of the cooking...homemade brownies, crock pot fajitas, and from scratch pretzels with ham and cheese. We did puzzles, played pet shop, made a fort, scavenger hunts, and watched TV until the rolling blackouts caused our internet to go out plus TV and phone. I was not happy about that at all. But we made the best of it. We only got out once in 3 days because I was going stir crazy. On Friday we woke up to an amazing white fluffy snow. It was gorgeous and the play in it type of snow. So we went to play and sled the school hill. I tried it for the first time and loved it! We made snow ice cream, snow angels, and had snowball fights but the weather was still extremely cold so we didn't make it too long when we did go outside. It was a fun 4 days that we never see and we had a good time!