Easter on the Way

I pulled out the Easter decorations on Sunday. It was a cold, snowy day outside but very springlike inside! Monday the kids found the plastic eggs and had a great time playing with them and spreading them all over the house. It was kind of like an Easter egg hunt as I tried to round them all up and get them put away on Monday night. We're ready for spring and Easter at our house!

The Gingerbread House

My sister gave us a gingerbread house kit for Christmas. Zeke was super excited to make his own gingerbread house, but Aaron and I were so sugar-overloaded from Christmas that we couldn't even think about taking on that project until about mid-January. We finally did it at the end of January on a Sunday evening. Zeke was the architect, Aaron was the contractor, I was the supplier of building materials, and Nora was quality control. 

Right after I snapped the pictures, Zeke bumped the table and - earthquake! - the house collapsed. And the eating commenced. 

Supplier's note: your house is only as good as your materials, right? When you start out with store-bought gingerbread that is shelf stable for months, well, it tastes like it's shelf-stable. However, the frosting was homemade (I just couldn't bring myself to use the toothpaste-consistency 'frosting' glue that comes in the kit), so that helped the taste if not the structural stability.

February 'Photo Album'

Just moved the February pictures from camera to computer and realized there are a bunch of good ones that don't really have their own blog post, so they all get to share a blog post. 

Some serious static electricity!

Zeke says 'Take a picture of me sleeping on my puzzles' and lays down like this. I take the picture. Then he doesn't get up, and really goes to sleep on his puzzles.

Nora and cousin Brielle playing with dishes.

This totally looks like a posed picture. And it so totally wasn't. Silly kids.

Out playing in the cold.

Angry Birds

We all enjoy Angry Birds at our house, Zeke in particular. One day he was building houses out of blocks and I suggested we make our own game of Angry Birds. He loved that idea and quickly set up the blocks on the table. 

Then we found a ball to be our 'bird' and knocked down the towers.

And some people say video games aren't good for kids. ;)