Finally!

 I finally got more space!  After trying over and over, and then the nightmare of finding an answer with google, I finally got it figured out.  Who knew I just needed to use a different browser?  Anyhow, so I'm catching up with pictures!

Here are the rest of the snow pictures.  Rylan peeking through the tunnel we made.

The face Mackenzie genuinely made as she watched Rylan jump from the snow pile, about 6 feet up. 

Riding home in the sled and Mackenzie attempting to lick the snow off Rylan's hat.  The only think she wants to do outside is eat snow, and she doesn't discriminate, she'll eat snow of any color.  Nasty!

The aftermath of being outside - I LOVE this little room!

Showing me their rosy cheeks.  Such little loveys!

They both love to help in the kitchen.  They were very good making these cupcakes, they took turns dumping ingredients in the bowl.

I absolutely love this picture - eyes closed, fully savoring every lick.  That's my girl!

Here she is doing her faces for me.

Sad

Happy

Scared

Tired

Sweet, sweet face!  I'm so lucky to be her momma!

Mackenzie also loves to help me put groceries away.  I set up the stool so she could put things on more than just the bottom shelves. 

She was trying to help Rylan with his coat. 

Two weeks ago, it was super cold and that happened to be the week that 2 coils went out in our boiler.  It was around 60 degrees in the house in the evening, and we decided it was too cold for the kids to sleep in their rooms, so we turned on the fire place and had a sleepover in our room.  We actually had to put Mackenzie to sleep in her own bed and carry her down later, because she wouldn't settle down on an air mattress.  It was a good thing we kept them in our rooms too, because the next morning, it was 54 degrees in our house - WAY too cold!  Thank goodness the parts came faster than expected and all is well again.

No More Syrup

Here's a conversation Rylan and I had in the car today after preschool.  To preface the story, Rylan has 3 little cuts/owies currently. We have been harping on him to leave them alone because he likes to pick the scab and then it never heals.  This morning when I dropped him off at school, the scab on his hand was starting to peel off so I reminded him again not to touch it and to ask the teacher for a band-aid if he needed it.  So after I picked him up from school, this is the convo we had.

Rylan: Mommy, I can't have syrup anymore.
Me: Why is that? (thinking he had done something inappropriate at school)
Rylan: It gets in your cracks and rips your owies off, and then it starts bleeding again.
Me: What?
Rylan: It sticks on your owie and then it comes off and then it will never get better.
Me: Well, you can still eat syrup, you just can't get it all over your hands.
Rylan: Well....(dramatic pause)... I get messy when I eat and I just can't keep track of all this!

Oh man, he cracks me up!


Happy Valentine's Day!  My sweetie took me out to dinner and a movie.  We saw True Grit.  It wasn't really what I was expecting, but it was good.  What a talented young actress in that one!

Snow!

Here are some pictures from playing outside the other day.  It hit 30 degrees (a major heat wave) and we were ready to play!

Rylan was the best big brother and helped Mackenzie zip up her coat.  This is one of the sweetest things I've seen him do for her!

Ready to go!

Beautiful sunset

So proud of her shovel

Trying to shovel off the road

The climber

Kenzie needed a little help getting to the top.

And now I'm mad because I have a bunch more photos to share, but Google is telling me I have no more free space.  I tried to purchase some more space but there's an error in the transaction and it's not working!  Hopefully I can get it figured out tomorrow!