New Year's Eve

We celebrated Christmas with family out of town between Christmas and New Years and came home to a kid-friendly blow out. Big fun. Here are a few glimpses of the end of our 2008.

Cousins celebrating at Grandma's:



My daughter snapped this pic at the Nutcracker after party:



Feeding the chickens their Christmas feed:



Nothing says the holidays quite like taking out the mountain of gift wrap trash:



Really, the kids had fun on New Year's Eve:

My favorite present also sported my favorite wrapping paper:

Out with the old and in with the goofy:

Happy belated New Year!

Snowy Easter

If going to a Christmas party in December in shorts wasn't confusing enough, this weekend we had an Easter egg hunt in the snow.

We started Saturday by marveling at the snow fall and making our favorite snow recipe - snoatmeal! Really cools it off - and isn't it fun to eat snow?



Luckily, we wait for the morning of the event to hide the eggs. I've never done it in snow boots before, though.



The eggs looked really pretty in the snow.



My little guys "hid" the yellow eggs for the even littler guys to find. You can see how quickly the snow melted in the sun.



Here are all the little hunters, all bundled up, and grasping their Easter baskets firmly:



Ah, the sweet rewards!