Body art and braids

It didn't take the kids long to decide to use their arms as a canvas instead of the paper. Luckily the finger paints wash off easily from nearly everything.


I posted these two pictures because Avery's hair looks so cute in braids. It is very hard to get her to sit still long enough to get them in.

Avery finds a jar of vaseline

Avery came and found me today while I was doing dishes, held out her hands and told me "I messy Momma, i messy" Sure enough her little hands were covered in vaseline as well as her face. All I could imagine was also a rug covered in it but she was really pretty neat about it and kept it on herself and on a blanket. I had to laugh and get a few pictures.

Sledding

It was really cold out but we decided to try some sledding anyway on the little hill on my parent's lawn. The kids lasted longer than I thought they would and we all had a pretty fun time.

Mom, keenan and Eric at the bottom of the hill



Keenan doing a solo run.

Jess and Keenan having a run at the hill.

Here goes Gramma

Eric preparing to give Cade, Avery and I a big sendoff.

And down the hill we go!

My little super troopers!

After Jessica, Keenan, and Eric arrived in montana after the New Year we opened more presents with the cousins. We tried to get a picture of them all with Grampa and Gramma so dad biribed them with suckers


Carter and Avery playing with Avery's new baby.

We tried to get a picture of all the cousins and nobody wanted to sit still very long to do it, much less smile while they were doing it.