Our Family: January 2012

January 18, 2012

Exploration

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
~ John Hope Franklin

We took a hiking adventure today!!!

We found lots of neat things!!

Matty pushed his wheel-barrow the entire time in case we found treasure!!

What a fun day!!

January 12, 2012

It snowed a little bit this afternoon!!! Even though it was just a dusting that didn't stop us from enjoying it! We LOVE snow!! There is just something so peaceful about falling snow! We hope we get more of the beautiful white stuff this winter!!!

an attempt at a photo of us in the snow

This was the boys exact reaction when it began to snow hard!! I love it so much!

He was so happy

Me and my snow bunny

The frigid temps and snow did not stop these hard-working boys!!

January 10, 2012

A Winter Day at the Lake

We decided to have an afternoon out today since its going to be rainy the next couple of days. It has been a while since we've been out to the lake so we decided to go there. William was able to get in a little fishing while Sydney and Matty fed the ducks and birds. Note to self: Don't allow your child to fish where the others are feeding the ducks and birds. Let's just say a certain seagull flew into William's fishing line and then proceeded to get tangled up. I was then left to figure out how to free this poor bird all a while the kids were screaming at me to free him. It was an interesting adventure to say the least. In the end, the bird was free and no one was hurt :) We enjoyed a nice afternoon and we look forward to the spring!

Our sweet babies watching the ducks

This was before the bird incident

We like to call this the bird and duck invasion.....We had never seen so many before!

January 7, 2012

Zoo in the Winter

The boys and I had a play date at the zoo yesterday!! I think this was the first time we had ever gone to the zoo in January! The weather was amazing and there was no way we were staying at home! We all thoroughly enjoyed it and the boys are getting way more into learning about each animal! They loved it and so did I! We even learned that Grandma took Sydney to the zoo that day too but we unfortunately did not run into them. Looks like it was a great day for all to enjoy the zoo!

beautiful elephants

Matty gazing at the elephants.......his favorite!!

All the boys had to ride the little train!

Chase, Will, and Matt loving the train ride!

They also had to ride the carousel! What a fun day!!

January 3, 2012

Winter Days

It has been pretty cold outside lately so we have been indoors for a couple of days now. I received a new camera and lens for my birthday and I have been itching to get outside to play around with them. So today even though it was 36 degrees outside, we bundled up and went out to play. The kids just love it when I bring out my camera :) They usually allow me to take a couple of shots and then they've had enough. So, I then must get creative and not allow them to see me with the camera.....Ha! We ended up having a lot of fun!