Family time at the Lake

Fun cousin video from Christmas:

We headed up to the lake after Christmas and we were there until today. It was nice to be "grounded" for a few days. The weather hasn't improved much up there, snow everyday and a bit of wind. We were a little nervous when it started to rain and the snow got really heavy...the roof was creaking when there were big gusts of wind. I guess it is a good reminder to shovel off the roof before it becomes 3 feet deep. We measured it at 33 inches, but our good friend measured the snowfall everyday and it was over 50 inches total.

Liha, Wade and Maggie came up on Sat. and stayed through Monday and the kids had so much fun! The adults had fun too playing board games and visiting. It has been awhile sinced I laughed so much :o). Monday we took a trip to Jungle Playland and let the kids run around a bit. We met my friend, Megan and her kiddos. Reggie and Ainsley had fun with them and enjoyed some cupcakes because it was Lachlan's 7th birthday.....crazy how fast it goes. Weren't we in high school just a few years ago???

This morning we met Grandma Peggy at Andrew's Playroom in Arlington. They had a really good time. They were the only one's there, so they didn't have to worry about sharing! Later today, Ryan and I took all 3 kids to the gym. That wasn't quite as fun. Maggie and Ainsley were holding hands, Ainsley crying for mom and Maggie crying for Tina. They paged me, but I couldn't understand what they were saying (time to get a new sound system) :o(. It didn't help that it was close to dinner time and Ainsley had a big poop in her diaper. Which reminds me, we had a major breakthrough 2 days ago when she went poop on the potty!!! Way to go Ainsley!

Ainsley isn't quite sure about the snow. She goes out, but not for very long (probably doesn't help that she has a nasty cold). Reggie has been sledding every day! He absolutely loves it. We are very surprised by this because he is so cautious and careful. He flies down the hills and looks for higher ones and we've actually had to say, "that probably isn't a good idea." Maybe he is going to be a little more daring than we initally thought??? Time will tell....here's some video of the bobsled run we made (don't have any video of him flying down the huge mounds of snow grandpa has created with the backhoe-he is quite the snow climber too!).