Shamrock Run

 

Jami and I did the Shamrock Run in Billings which is like the official kick off the racing season in Billings.  I got her some fun socks to wear too, and she is wearing them you just can't tell since she also felt like she had to wear pants.  The race felt GREAT although a little windy.  I was a little nervous for the run as the winter has been so long I feel like I haven't been able to run as much as I would have liked to. But I surprised myself and did even better than my time last year by 36 seconds so I was happy with that.  I won my age group and got 4th out of all the women overall. It was a 5k (3.1 miles) and my time was  22:15.  Jami did a great job also and ran the whole way.  YAY

 

The race was at 1 pm then I had to hurry home as I was having a party at 3! But it was fun and so was the party.

Sledding

 We went sledding on the last Sunday in February and were so glad we did as the weather was finally beautiful and we had a great time without freezing our butts off. We had a great time although Rance and I managed to find some rocks that didn't quite agree with our sleds or our behinds.

 We of course took along some refreshments along the lines of hot cocoa.

Cola also thought is was great fun as long as he didn't have to ride in the sled.

Decorating Easter Eggs

It is impossible to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time!

Everyone had their own egg stations with their names so there would be no fighting over who sat where and had what. It even worked, surprisingly there was no fighting!

Chase getting into the action with alittle help from his mom and Grandma.

Avery somehow had a purpple mustache before we even started.

Everett getting a little help from Grandma Debbie.

Cade's favorite part was the rabbit graspers I found so they didn't have to get their fingers in the egg dye.  They worked really good and the kids SHARED them, well and I did have two pairs.

Avery of course had pink as one of her colors.

Maybe next year Scarlett will be in on the action!

Everett had to taste test his.

EGGALICIOUS!

Stinkface

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The kids were trying to give their best "stinkface" and look as mean as possible.  It was rather funny.

Happy 80th Birthday to my Grandma Pat

 My Grandmother Pat turned 80 on the 13th of February and had a great party.  Here is a picture of her with her very eager to blow out the candles on the birthday cake great grandkids. I am pretty sure there was no way we were going to get a picture of all the kids looking at the camera at the same time and smiling so this was about as good as it got!

A likely looking bunch, Avery is too cool in those shades to even look at the camera.

Big helpers opening presents!

This girl is getting some cheeks, and chins!

 

Avery can't get enough of her cousin Scarlett!

Avery turns three!

 Avery's pink princess castle cake.  Wasn;t as hard to make as I thought it was going to be.

 Cade fell asleep before the party and didn't wake up until about 20 minutes in to it.  Party prep is hard work!

 Time to open presents! It was pandemonium, there were a lot of little kids at the party and when Avery started opening presents they all seemed to join in the fun.

 Mmmm pink cake!

Whew that was a big day for a princess! Notice she is on her fourth clothing change in these pictures, although I think she had at least one more during the day at some point.

A few Random pics

Cade and Rance were looking pretty cute in their similar attire.  Cade has been very happy to have a cowboy hat again.  Actually two as he got a black and a straw hat for Christmas.  He lost his last hat in Ronan last suummer and was a very sad cowboy because of it.

Mr. Handsome himself!

Avery loves her babydolls.  This is her newest one which is alternatly named Baby Scarlett and Julie.

The little princess.  She is big on princess stuff lately and dressing up in her play clothes.

Chase and Avery helping me bake some brownies.  They were very excited for the part where they get to lick the spoon.

Kite flying.

Sledding where there are no hills requires a willing power source.  In this case it was me.