Our Winter Wonderland...

This winter has been brutal!  We have only been able to take the kids outside a few times in the past month due to the temperature being close to 0 degrees with windchills close to -20 degrees.  We have already had 90 inches of snowfall and Joel has had 7 snow days already!

The ZCS sledding hill was our outing for the afternoon.  After getting everyone bundled up I think we lasted 30 minutes!  :)

After going down the big hill twice Parker was ready for something smaller!  So Joel pushed him down a snow pile and Parker loved it!

Peyton just loved sitting in her red sled being pulled around.

Playing in ice forts.

One final run and we need to head home to get warm!

Peanut Butter Jelly Time...

Eating PB&J can be a messy affair with these two little ones!  Parker was loving having a messy face today which is not the norm.

11 months...

It is true that you take less pictures and keep worse track of milestones as you add little ones to your family!  These are all there are and I am actually writing this much later than her 11 month milestone so I have no clue what to say about her at this point!  Sorry Peyton!  We love you!

Reading buddies...

Hanging out by the Christmas tree..

Twinners...

Music Time...

Getting ready to eat...

The boys doing the stinky diaper change...it takes two of them to get it done!

The three amigos...

It's a New Year...

We celebrated the New Year with Gritters and Kuipers by hanging out at our house, sharing a meal and then heading to the ZCS gym to burn off some energy!  We headed home for an early night in and were in bed before 11pm...oh how life has changed!

The 1st day of the New Year Joel's back started acting up...not a great start to the year.  The 2nd day of the New Year we woke up to flashing lights in the front yard and a pond!  The water main broke and flooded the front yard.  Several hours later it was fixed...our road was covered in ice due to all of the water they pumped into the street that quickly froze and we had a 6 foot deep hole in our front yard!  Yikes!  They say they will come back in the Spring to fix it all and plant new grass...we sure hope so.  The blessing in it all was we didn't have to pay a penny for it because the break was on the city's side!  Phew!  It did provide a whole afternoon of entertainment though!  Hopefully the New Year takes a turn for the better!

Reading Buddies...

This picture is precious.

Beautiful Pigeon Creek...

Today we explored the beautiful creation that God so creatively designed at Pigeon Creek.  Simply beautiful.  Snowshoeing, hotdogs in the lodge, and much laughter (especially when mommy wiped out big time in the slippery parking lot!).

 Bundled up and ready to go!

The kids definitely had it the easiest...Joel and I did all the work carrying and pulling while walking through deep snow!

Watching the big kids go down the sledding hill.  Parks was relieved to find out that he was not going down that hill.