Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Last Thursday was green day at daycare. Teague enjoys any shirt with a hood, so he was happy with this green one!

Ave does not have any green pants - gasp! She did have a green shirt and jacket full of green though. She looked good :)

My kids have been obsessed with Super heroes lately! It's one game they can all play together though so I'm not complaining!

This is Ave with her "girl team" of Emma Frost, Jean Grey, and Black Widow. They are pretty cool!

Carter ordered some X-Men guys with some of his "buck for a duck" money. He had a great day last week. He came home with an awesome report card and these had just arrived in the mail!

Teague likes the bad guys to live on the treadmill. That's "Villainville". He's adding Sabretooth and Magneto to the mix right here.

Just two kids happy to be playing outside. It was beautiful on Saturday...then freezing wind on Sunday. You just never know!

We read about 15 books together the other night. I like when they all cuddle around me!

Dad made some tasty green shamrock pancakes on Sunday. They were delicious! I snagged a shamrock cup too. We are always very festive around St. Patrick's Day.

We went up to the weight room and gym on Sunday. They were all on a team against me for some floor hockey. We had a good time!

Carter found green hair spray in Grandma's tub of St. Patrick's Day goodies. He reminded me for a week to make sure I brought it home so he could have green hair for school on Monday. It was cute to see all the kids on the playground decked out in green!

I had to get a picture of somebody in these glasses - they are awesome!

3 little leprechauns after Avery got done with dance. What a cute picture!

Then we were off to swimming lessons. Monday was a busy day!

They are really enjoying themselves. I think I might have to sign them up again for the next session!

I took some inspiration from Erica and made some green eggs for the kids for dinner. I also found some green sprinkles for the cinnamon toast. The adults had some delicious corned beef...Mmm!

I made it up to the KC for an hour and a half (and to drive these guys home). Mom, Terri, and Little Kyle had been celebrating for awhile, and I'm glad I made it up there. Had to say a Happy Birthday toast to my Mom, and a Happy St. Patrick's Day to Grandpa Winks's picture! Mom had a great day, and no, I don't know who that guy is behind Terri!

Lastly, my brother and his friend arm wrestling. Kyle's friends were hilarious and hung out with Mom and Terri all day. They are nice kids. It was fairly quiet since it was a freezing Monday. My husband only had to make a few arrests, and they all came after 11pm. All in all, a good St. Patrick's Day/Mom's Birthday!

Late post for a busy week

Sorry this is so late. We've had a crazy week here: 2 funerals, dance, 2 swimming lessons, and club volleyball. Better late than never though right? After the mounds and mounds of snow we received and now all this sunny weather...this is what most of the streets look like. Thank goodness for boots! I let them splash one day after we picked up Carter from Emerson.

He's obviously in the background climbing some snow. They are not allowed on the snowpile on the playground. After school, every kid seems to be climbing wherever they can!

Teague loves this little rice bag that Jordan made for us for Christmas. I like to put it around my neck when I'm reading. Teague likes to lay it across his belly and pass out!

Ave is such a good sister. She's always "reading" superhero stories to Teagie.

Now it's bath time. Teague picked purple that day. Those two are either best friends, or they are telling on eachother for something.

We went up to the weight room Saturday and Sunday last week. Avery apparently didn't brush her hair on Saturday! She makes me laugh. She has to put all her weight on one side of the stepper to move it!

Carter doesn't have that problem anymore. He's pretty solid! I think he's going to be built like Kyle :)

This guy is just cute!

I'm not exactly sure what you do with these bars. Dad thinks they are for stretching. The kids had a good time being ninjas with them of course.

This was on Sunday. Kyle came up with us. Sunday is his day off for working out so he just entertained the kids. Amazingly...I got a lot more done!

We started swimming lessons last week for these two. Carter, who I was worried about because he gets very rigid in the water, is loving it! He's already swam without a belt or kickboard in the deep end twice! I feel bad that they are a little late on the swimming, but it's expensive unfortunately. Ave is a little cautious. She's getting better every time though.

Carter loves that he gets to bring his own Spiderman kickboard.

My girl still likes to be able to touch. She's getting braver though, and it is nice that she has a friend there (Matti from daycare). I won't be so late next time on the blog!

Snow fun!

We have really been enjoying the weather lately. I don't mind a lot of snow as long as there is no freezing wind. This was on Monday I think. Then we got about 12 more inches as the week went on!

Thor was having some fun using his hammer in the snow!

We always have a good pile by the deck at Mom and Dad's house because he shovels it right off. He had to move the pile later in the week.

Carter enjoyed climbing the pile in the backyard too. I don't know if you can tell by that face, but he's slightly crazy!

The snow was sticky, but we couldn't get a good ball rolling. So we made this cool guy. I named him Lumpo the Snowpile. He did have some awesome cheeseball buttons luckily.

I never really know what these two are doing. I think they might have been on vacation here.

We went to the last home basketball games on Thursday. Abb and Jord danced at both halftimes and were fantastic as usual. They did two dances I hadn't seen yet, and I loved them! Ave had a group of 4 girls at her beck and call (you can't see anything of Brooklyn but her arm), and they had a blast dancing and playing together.

Teague looked so cool in his Captain America outfit from Kelsie, Joe, and Lincoln. We didn't even see the hood when he opened it! He's a handsome blue-eyed boy :)

The last two years Avery has asked for a robotic turkey for Christmas. We didn't find a robotic one, but this stuffed turkey she found at Hastings is pretty awesome. She named her Turkabella I believe, and they both tried on some sunglasses the other night. She's a goofball!

They have been using all our bath color tablets to do "experiments" in the bathroom. They are so weird! I like that Carter is wearing a safety Optimus Prime mask here. You can see our new daisy shower curtain in the background too.

2 brothers in the shower. Teague thought he was a super big boy in there - that smile is killing me. Carter was very helpful with him.

We have been trying to brighten up our bathroom. This helps! I painted the two cabinets a lovely canary yellow to go with our new blue rugs and daisy shower curtain. We all like it!

I get in weird painting moods sometimes...so we also did a little purple in the dining room! It was leftover from Ave's room, and it matches well with the purple chairs. Kyle must like it too. He wants to paint our room and the upstairs now!

Sunday was the one of the funnest snow days ever. It was beautiful out, and we played outside for hours!

Kyle was off, and we decided to be ambitious and try to make a fort. He's making a nice level surface here to start.

Teague had fun playing drums and sitting on some flower pot molded snow!

Kyle and I did six levels to start. We are giant nerds and stayed outside while the kids all went in. It was getting warm so we put some water over the top.

They decided it did look cool and came to check it out.

Then we all went in and had some lunch. Teague and Ave had some fun with Grandma. Teague was playing and told her she was the bank! The bad guys were coming to rob it!

Then we went back outside. Ave made a giant snowball - it became the throne you will see shortly. She took a break after pushing it all over the yard!

Ta-da! I'm so glad we did this, because the poor thing is not looking too good today. It's too warm out there! We made a nice 10 layers, and then made the top two look castle-like. I told Ave she could be Elsa from Frozen and sing "Let it Go" in there!

Carter-man peeking over the edge. Our goal was to have it be taller than him!

Ave's snowball became the throne! Kyle shaped a seat in there and added some snow around the bottom. King Carter approved! There are over 200 snow bricks - my shoulders and Kyle's back were a little sore after that (totally worth it though).

Then we had an awesome snowball fight. Kyle hit me in the ear, Ave in the head, and Carter in the neck. Luckily we got him back. I think half my snowball went down the back of his shirt! What a fun day!

Lastly, this is what happens when I ask Ave what she wants for lunch. She has to make a note with her name on it and an arrow pointing at lunch, and attach it to the fridge. I guess verbal cues would be too boring!