Indoor fun!

These pics are a little late but I wanted to post them just the same. When the big blizzard hit, school was closed for two days which meant we were stuck in our tiny apartment for four whole days. So, to help pass the time and keep us from going crazy, we braved the snowy roads (they were safe so don't think I put my kids in harm and if you actually think about it they were in more harm trapped inside the house with me!) and took the kids to the mall where they were able to play in the indoor playground. They had a good time and burnt off some energy.







We then went home and baked brownies for dessert. Ella helped the best way she could..licking the chocolately whisk clean!

The Blizzard of 2010

At 4am Thursday morning, Feb. 11th, the snow started to come down and it didn't stop until 4am Friday morning. In the end, Dallas got 12.5 inches of snow. The most ever recorded. It was beautiful to watch fall and the kids were mesmerized! We went out about four times that day to play in it. We built snowmen, had snowball fights and drank hot chocolate. We were sad to see it go!

This was the view from our balcony Friday morning.

Am I ready for this??

So, everyone I know who has a little boy has warned me that boys are climbers but I didn't know it would start this soon!! I caught him trying to get his sippy cup off the top shelf.

And He's OFF.....

It has been pretty exciting around here lately. Luke slowly started walking last week and has now really taken off. He prefers to walk now instead of crawling and the look on his face says he is pretty proud of himself. We are too!

Maybe a little TOO much like her mom!

I went into Ella's room last night after putting Luke to sleep and found her very busy. She had cleaned out her PJ drawer and was preparing to "organize it". She told me "I can't find anything in here because it is so messy so I am organizing it". I was pretty impressed but also a little alarmed. Have I passed on my neurotic organizing habits already??

Pony Dinner

In case you didn't know it, My Little Ponies are the cool thing this year. We have all of them and know everything about them including their favorite recipes which we got out of a My Little Pony coloring book Ella got from Mims. So, on this night I told Ella we could cook the pony recipes for dinner. She was very excited. We had Toola Roola's Rollups (which are basically pizza in crescent rolls) and Cheerilee's Cherry Tarts. It was fun and actually pretty tasty!