Honey Creek Resort

Eating our lunch!

The cousins hanging out b/f we go swimming!

Connor going down the slide!

Mitchell going down the slide by himself!

Mitchell swimming on the tube!

Going on the lazy river!

Funny little Boys!

Mitchell and Connor on the pirate ship!

This past weekend we had a great time together as a family! On Friday night my sisters and their families and my parents all went to the Honey Creek Resort and swam at the water park. We had a great time together and the kids had a blast! Mitchell got to go down the slide for the first time this year. We got to order Pizza on Friday night and the kids got to have a movie night in the adjoining room next to ours while the adults played cards. Saturday we spent the morning again at the pool and had lunch there as well! The kids had so much fun together and made many memories! Saturday afternoon when we got home from the water park we decided to have a sledding party with Elden's side of the family! We haven't been sledding for a long time! Mitchell loved it the first couple times, but the walk up the hill was pretty hard since the snow was up to the adults knees! Connor just was content to eat snow and watch everyone else sled! What great memories !)

Valentine Fun!

Mitchell making their valentine grilled cheese!

Connor and Mitchell painting their valentine's!

Yesterday we had a fun day celebrating Valentine's day at home. We were busy making valentine cards for daddy with hand prints and painting, we made frosted sugar valentine cookies, and even made grilled cheese in the shapes of hearts! We even had time to play outside in the snow for a while! Here are some pictures of our fun day together!

Preschool Valentine party

Mitchell eating his cupcake!
Mitchell counting his m&m's and making a graph as to how many colors of each they have

Mitchell at rug time!

Mitchell and his class!

Reading books with miss Anne!

I had the privilege of going with Mitchell to his Share Preschool Valentine party on Thursday! We had a great time together! There are 26 kids in his class, so the class is quite full and very busy! I was very impressed with how the program was run and the quality teachers they have! I am glad we are sending him there. We had rug time, read stories and "Mailed" our valentines! I got to help with stuffing the kid's bags with valentines! We even got yummy Valentine cupcakes for snack. I got a few pictures and a video of our special day together!

Blading Snow Again...

Elden has been enjoying helping a local snow removal business in town the past month or so. He has definitely had plenty of opportunities to try out his new tractor that he got recently. He has enjoyed using it for both his new venture and here at home. Here are a few pics of him doing our driveway with the kids! The boys sure had fun riding with him. I certainly am not going to be mowing with this tractor this summer! It is way to big for me and when you need a ladder to get on it, it's not a good sign. With my luck I'd run into something :) Hopefully it will stop snowing one of these days!

Bathroom Update

While Elden was in Arkansas this past week, I thought it would be fun to redo the bathroom and surpsise him. A few years ago he went to Arkansas and I repainted the bedroom. So I thought I'd surprise him again! The kids had a blast scraping off the old wall paper and "Helping" me. Thankfully when it came to painting, the in-laws helped out in that department. Elwood was nice enough to take the kids to their home while Connie and I painted were busy painting! I managed to get the whole room finished for only $15. Now that is a cheap upgrade! I was happy as to how it turned out. I really like my new hardware! That was my favorite part! Thanks to the in-laws and my kids for all their help!