Addi is 4

Addi turned 4 on Sunday

What a wonderful day to be 4. We told her HAPPY BIRTHDAY first thing when she woke up Sunday and she quickly reminded us, all day is my birthday. We headed to church, in her fancy dress and then off to Buffalo (Buffalo Wild Wings) for lunch. You get to pick where we eat on your birthday and Addi picked Buffalo a month ago. Then it was home for presents. After a brief nap it was a quick dinner and ice cream cake time. Addi wanted to go to Luke's baseball practice so off we went. She was excited to tell everyone we saw all day it was her birthday. This Saturday is her party so the celebrating has not stopped yet!


A Barbie ice cream cake on her birthday and Tinkerbell cupcakes for school celebration on Monday.


Yeah, I'm 4

Addi was a dancing fool when it came time to open her presents.

She was so excited she had to have some help to open them because she could not focus.

Even a little help from GG, just because that is what GG got her.






GG got Addi a cute pair of sandals but Lucas spent his own money to get Addi Rapunzel hair and it was a major hit!





HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDI

Snow fun 2011

We had snow much fun playing outside in the snow. Aunt Carrie and gang came over and the neighbors came out so we could play together. The kids got to sled and we all loved the snowball fight.

It is simply amazing to me that Lucas can get this much on him.

Here is T with Marissa, the neighbor girl and her friend.

Sledding and snowboarding down the hill on the side of the neighbors house. The snow was pretty blown over here but it had a nice frozen top to it and was super slick.

Hangin out in the igloo.

Don't focus on my back side, look at that nice clean driveway.

As soon as it warms up I will have some more picture of the snow fun. Until then I can only show you pictures of us under blankets or in front of the fireplace eating soup and playing games.

Come on 0, I'm tired of the - sign in front of my temperatures in the morning!!

Fun in the snow

Aunt Carrie came over!! Yeah, we got to leave the walls of our house and play outside with some true snow warriors.

Look at Aunt Carrie trying to get some good photos.....

I am honestly starting to think Jeremy has a shoveling addiction. Who on earth shovels the street two days in a row?

Yep, this was the beginning of the snow fight. Good ol Uncle Jeremy got it going and everyone else fell right behind. I had to put the camera away but this snow is dry, dry, dry so no awesome snowballs for any of us.

After I put the camera away I forgot to get it back out for sledding but I busted out the old fashion slice your leg open sled for Hunter to use going down the side of the house. Addi had given up and gone inside by then so we had some fun on some ice covered drifts. I was glad to see the old fashion sled went just about as far as the new slick bottom one.

Tonight the cold is coming so it should firm up our tunnels but I am not sure it will be warm enough for us to get out in for another day or so. More fun for the weekend!!

Snow fun

A snow dome is only fitting after a blizzard. We had two nice piles of snow going so we decided to make one tunnel and one igloo.

Yes, this is me working on the igloo with Luke. I was worried that it would cave in so I tested it myself and was nicely shocked when the snow was packed very tightly. The igloo was later turned into a tunnel because the kids decided it was more fun then just sitting in the snow.

Here they are playing in the snow.

Luke dug a hole to find the grass. He wanted to see just how deep he had to go. He was a bit afraid of digging into the ground he said but I told him have no fear of breaking dirt this week.

Addi was afraid to stand in the hole, thinking she would be buried. It was not that deep but was pretty close to her chest!!!!

I sent Luke down to the end of the street to see if Lucy Webb was plowed. I figured we would ask Aunt Carrie and gang over to play in the snow but I wanted to make sure the main roads were plowed. They were so we asked and yippee, they were kind enough to come on over!!

Blizzard 2011

Before I even begin I would like to say in all of my mind I never would of thought I would post two separate blogs a year apart about a blizzard.

Okay so the blizzard of 2011 was really only an issue for me from the view of my front window. I did not even try to get out Tuesday and Wednesday will be the same. Our office is closed on Wednesday so sledding will be our only reason to depart the beauty of our home.

Here are some radar pictures from early Tuesday of the snow. At 6am were were not fully in the heavy snow band, that is what pink means, heavy snow and white is thunder snow or increased bands which means you get 2 to 2.5 inches and hour. We had those later in day when I began to wonder if Jeremy would make it home.

This is what they were predicting for totals I would guess they were pretty close. According to the best measurements we can get here puts us at 14 inches. It is so hard to figure out for sure because of all the wind but we will go with 14.

Now lets just say Luke's measurements taken every other hour yesterday were a bit off, maybe an inch or two. That is still a foot of snow!! That makes me very happy!

These pictures are after our first shoveling of the driveway. We could not even keep up with the snow falling so we eventually gave up.

Jeremy went out a couple hours later and the rest of us joined him because of guilt shortly after.

Luke was a very good shoveler.

This is our first shovel. The snow was very fluffy but deep, so deep!

Addi was sleeping during our first shovel so she came out the second time and could not believe the amount of snow everywhere. she was especially impressed with the snow on the table at the entry way.

What would you do after all the snow is piled along the side of the drive way. Yeah, me too. Go for a climb.

At first they tried to slide down but decided it was way cooler just to use your own body.

At the top of the world, or at least snow pile.

Snow surfing.

And the slide down.

Today we are going to work on building a snow fort. I think if we spray the piles down with some water they will harder up on the outside and we can tunnel through on the inside. Hopefully, I will have some pictures later. I am a bit worried about the wind chill. That is part 3 of the wonderful storm. Part 1 was freezing drizzle on Monday. Part 2 snow and wind (blizzard) on Tuesday and Part 3 Wednesday and Thursday severe cold and windchill.

I will take Part 2 any day but the others only make me grouchy!!

Jeremy and Luke just came in from one last shovel to totally clear the driveway of all the drifts from last night. We have a clear drive way, a street full of snow and I am certain we are not getting mail today. The mail van thing-y got stuck when she turned on our street and finally got turned around enough to leave. No mail means no bills so I'm good here! The City classifies us as a level 4 road because we are a dead end or cul-de-sac. Actually our road is both so we are most likely the bottom of level 4. They sent out notification that level 4 roads should be plowed later this evening. Good thing we can sled in our own yard because there is no getting out of here!

Honeybell's are here

Honeybell's have finally made it to Raymore. They were a Christmas gift from Amy. These are the best juiciest oranges I know. They box even comes with a special stray to drink right out of the orange. De-lish!!

Addi was sort of creeped out by the idea of drinking out of them. She really just wanted the orange orange she would say.



Luke tried to peel an orange for Addi and discovered how juicy they are.

Addi agreed to drink the juice finally to get the orange orange part out after seeing how juicy they were.

Luke would drink the entire box if you would let him. He can't believe we can't get more of them in the store and is afraid we will run out and have to go back to that orange juice in a cartoon soon.

Thank you Amy for the wonderful gift. We love Honeybell's!

Poor Guy

A couple weeks ago PAPA came to town and stayed at Great Wolf Lodge. We had a full weekend of baseball pancake breakfast, indoor baseball before Lucas could enjoy some GWL so Aunt Carrie was nice enough to take Addi Jo with her. She had a wonderful time in the water. After baseball I switched Luke for the little people.

I knew leaving GWL I was walking away a winner. I will take two kids that have been swimming all day over one all day swimmer and a new arrival any time. I was practically floating on air getting them into their booster seats. Have a great night Aunt Carrie, see ya suckers!!! Jeremy is in Texas, I have two tired kids one easy Saturday night.
Famous last words I tell ya, famous last words. NO SLEEP all the way home. It took 45 minutes to get home and they did not stop talking. After 20 minutes I was glad because I figured that nap would do me in. Hunter figured out how to drive Addi nuts and whenever she wanted to ask him a question he would say, we will talk about it later. I thought the girl was going to go insane. Put her on hold, oh she almost pulled her own hair out.
Okay, so we get home drops in our chlorine eyes, pj's on and ready for a good nights sleep. Ahhh, what is this? Kids running around the house. What on earth is going on. Did someone give you sugar, is this a mean trick? It was 9:30 before these little people fell asleep. I can say though it was a good hard sleep when they fell though.

Sunday we went to church and then played for a bit before nap time and going over to Aunt Carrie's for some football games.

Addi decided to dress Hunter up. Poor guy had to put on a dress just before these pictures. He did get that off rather quickly I have to admit!

He did love the cool rays


Seriously, could Addi be any prouder of her creation ?



Oh what the heck, all for the attention of a girl

ADDI SCHOOL PICTURES