OH Yeah!!

After and unusually warm last week of April.... we are pretty much "out of" snow!! Here is the progression from the first day of Spring (about 6 weeks ago) to now....

March 22

March 27

April 3

April 10

April 18

April 23

TODAY!!

And our yard becomes a pond with all of the melting snow, so the boys get to play and make lots of laundry for their mother.

New beds for the three youngest boys

Sorry for the blurry picture. We had beds made for the boys and this is how we got them over the rail, into the loft. They were very heavy, it took four guys to get them up there.


This is Grant's bed on the left side of the room....
these are the twins' beds on the right side of the room. They each have six large drawers under their bed. And I now have blankets for them... although they aren't matching yet. I am planning to buy navy comforters or maybe just navy throw blankets for them. I want it to be easy for them to keep them neat.

Ice Skating

I went skating with the school kids. It was fun after my feet got used to trying to balance this old body of mine. WOW!! They hurt for the first 30 minutes then it was about time to go! :) But we had lots of fun!

A few miscellaneous pictures.....

Somehow the big lizards and snow just don't seem to go in the same picture.... but these sure are.
Taylor on crazy hair day.
Tyler - it is the letters of their school - FNCS.
Grant
All the kids on Crazy Hair Day.

And then, because I had to fix what I messed up......
Taylor with a very shaved head and ......
Tyler with a very shaved head. :) They look like cancer patients.
Aurora doesn't like to sit on the cold ground so she sits on top of the snowmachines! So spoiled!

The Next Spring Picture

It's supposed to be up to 50 degrees tomorrow and Sunday. That means even more of the white stuff will melt!!

Spring is coming! :)

Yay!! It's really starting to melt now. This whole week we've had temps up in the 40's during the day!! Spring is really coming!

The Full Set

We have been collecting the State Coins for the last 9 or 10 years. We just kept checking them as we got them and got the last one yesterday. It was the Arizona State Quarter. As you can see, the board we collected them on is from 10 years ago and has had it's share of wear and tear. I'm actually a little sad that it's over. It's been fun!