Sledding!

The kids love to go over to Grammie and Papa's to play but they especially love going sledding on their big hill.  Even the little Princess enjoys it...after we convinced her to try it the first time!

Mommy and Brady time

Brady has been asking for some Mommy and Brady time because each of the other kids has had it for one reason or another over the past month or so.  Sunday morning I asked him if he wanted to go grocery shopping with me and I would take him out to lunch while Daddy stayed here with the other kids but he asked me if they could go grocery shopping while we stayed home.  So Ben got three kids ready to take shopping alone...I couldn't help but laugh because again I got the better ratio...and Brady and I stayed home and did puzzles, painted and read some books.  He was so happy and I loved getting time with just him.  I really wish we had the opportunity to do this more often!

Girl Day/Boy Day

About a month ago I heard an advertisement for Monster Jam coming to our state and knew I had to check into tickets.  The boys watch Monster Jam on TV every week and love it...the four of the hoot and holler the entire time it is on!  Aubrey is no where near interested in this craziness and neither am I for that matter so we bought 5 tickets and conned Uncle Tom into joining the boys and Daddy.  They had a blast at the show and Ben said it was worth every single penny!

While the boys were away the girls had to think about what they wanted to do so it was off to Littleton for a Princess mani/pedi for the little lady and a pedi for Mommy!  We followed that up with some shopping then a Norwex party at a friends and finally onto dinner at the Mooselook to see Grammie!

The three boys to one girl ratio works well in my favor! :)

Scary night...

Last weekend I went to bed around 10pm and fell fast asleep until Brady began stirring at 11.  I got up to go check on him and when I opened the bedroom door all I could smell and see was smoke.  I woke Ben and he ran downstairs to see what was the cause.  It was quickly determined that it was the furnace and after hitting the kill switch on that we packed the kids and headed to Grammie Diana's for the rest of the night.  The kids never made a peep while putting on jackets, being carried down the stairs or even getting in the car other than Aubrey asking me where we were going and when I told her she answered OK and put her head back down.

The next morning Ben came back to the house with a friend to look over the furnace when it was determined that it was plugged and that the oil line was leaking.  After that all got fixed and the house aired out we were able to return home.  I am very grateful that Brady was restless and woke me up because none of the 3 smoke alarms nor the two carbon monoxide detectors went off.  Needless to say I have done a lot of research over the past few days and new ones will be installed as soon as they come in.  Please take the time to read this article...it could save a life!

Aubrey the Princess

One minute in a room with little Miss Aubrey and you will know that she is truly a Princess.  Her whole life is about dressing like a Princess, playing with Princesses, watching Princess movies at every chance and of course wearing a tiara 99.9% of her waking hours.  If she is playing in her toy room you are almost certain to find her inside her castle tent playing with her Princesses...


We got this castle from our Fisher Price House Party and she now has the entire collection of the Princesses...she has only had all but 2 of them since Christmas and she can already repeat everything they say and sing word for word!

Frosty the Snowman

The kids were thrilled to wake up last week to a snow covered yard!  They were even more thrilled that it was vacation week and they had some big kids to go out and play with in the snow.  They were begging to go out since 7 am so I gave in around 8:30 and they played out for an hour or so...making snow angels and then a snowman who they named Frosty.  Brady was discouraged that I had no spare buttons only carrots so when Ben and I build a snowman with them on the next good snow we will be using our snowman kit so they can build a "real" one!  

Loving the snow!!!!

So proud of Frosty!

New Years Eve Tradition Continues...

We tossed around the idea of taking the kids to Santa's Village for the New Year's Eve bash but the freezing weather made up our mind.  We didn't want to bundle them all up and fight the crowds to be there for an hour before dragging cranky kiddos out of there so we decided to do the same thing we did last year...

Make a bunch of snack foods...


Put on a never seen before movie...



Eat in the living room...

Chill out and relax....








I can't think of a better way to ring in the New Year!