The snowy days of winter finally

Well it has not been very snowy before, kinda of rainy weather which is so strange this time of year, but we got some good dumping of snow recently. So we enjoyed a snow delay of school and 2 snow days. The thing is that the snow is still here...a week later nothing has melted just kinda dirty. So this is the difference, the snow doesn't come one day melt the next like it does in Colorado or so warm you can go without a coat. Yes our driveway still has ice and snow all over it, we did PAY the neighbors snow blower guy to dig out our mailbox because they seriously wouldn't deliver if it was not done properly. Crazy it was a pile of ice from the snow plow for the road and it wouldn't budge. So we had total of 6 days off of school due to the Presidents day weekend and the snow days we played in the snow 4 of those 6 days we sledded and went to a "hill" at a friends and tried to build a fort. Okay so we enjoyed it I'm ready for it to melt now. The icicles are really huge the kids want to know how to get them off of the tall tall house. Hope just asked if we could ask the neighbors for some of theirs they touch the ground! So we anxiously await the meltdown!

Levi turned 1

Levi turned 1 on January 29th, wow a year already? It doesn't seem possible that little guy has been in our life that long. The 1st birthday is a big one in our house we usually have large family birthdays and of a couple of cakes one just for the 1 year old. So how does one celebrate in a new place? Well we celebrated 3 times! Friday was his actual birthday so we went to Chick Fil-A to the play land that he has never experienced before you might say "hmm interesting, they are always at Chick Fil-A." I know but mostly drive thru of course and with him walking it seemed okay now to let him play. So dinner and brownies and ice cream all around, yum. Then Saturday we had planned on meeting one of Scott's co-workers at Chuckie Cheese's, well they cancelled so we still went. On a Saturday night we must have been crazy... it was insanely packed. The kids got tokens played the games we ate a not very good pizza and got the heck out of there. Then we we went to Friendly's which happens to have awesome ice cream just not good service so way past Levi bed time we finally got sundaes and ate the quickly as Levi was melting faster than the ice cream (okay all of us were melting). Phrew what a weekend of celebrating but we didn't do the cake! So the next weekend we make the cutest train car cake (thanks Lana for the pan) We all decorated and Levi was not very patient for that event as he was sitting in his high chair watching us with candy and icing he was angry we we not sharing so we rushed and got his done sang happy birthday (finally) and very fast took the candies off he couldn't eat(after the pics were taken) and he had lots of candy and cake well we continued to decorate the other train cars. Ah what we do to make ourselves feel like we celebrated this event properly.