Playing in the Snow: A Glimpse of Us

The snow has arrived. The weather is pretty chilly. However, I am not sure you are going to hear any complaints from our crazy crew.

While I still rather dislike being cold, these boys we are raising are going to be full blown winter loving kids.

I mean, seriously?! This kid is laying face down in the snow. FACE DOWN!

They all just bundled up and stayed out there for awhile. Only to be joined by me for a quick photo session.

Even Bean got in on the action. This is the first year he is really big enough to go out there with just brother supervision. He loved it. We had to bribe him with hot cocoa to get him to come in. We pretty much had to bribe all of them with hot cocoa.

Pretty sure this snow shovel is three times his size. That didn't stop him from pushing it around the yard.
 

When they all came in with rosy cheeks and cold noses, they shed all of their winter gear into a giant heap on my kitchen floor. I stood their looking back and forth between the huge mess on my floor and their happy faces. I decided, who the heck cares about the mess. These kids are creating some pretty amazing memories. Memories of time together.

Memories of growing up where it snows.

As a momma, I couldn't ask for more than that.

In a Nutshell: SNOW and Party Madness

 

At approximately 4:30 in the a.m. on Thursday morning, I was walking through the house. What!?!

That would be the truth. Yup folks, my super cute baby still gets up in the a.m. to inhale a feeding.

Anywhooo...

So I was up in the a.m and noticed that it was unusually bright outside, especially for an early Fall morning. I was super puzzled then a light bulb went off.

Immediately in my head I groaned, "Noooooooo!"

I opened the blinds and sure 'nuff, the ground was covered in white stuff. Hahaha, I totally just rhymed.

While I was a little sad at the immediate ending to Fall, my most favorite season, I was excited for my Little Men. They LOVE, luuhve the snow.

When they came upstairs to get ready for school and saw that I had set out snow boots, they immediately ran to the window. Thanks to the snow we had one of our chipperest mornings ever.

They got ready in speed time and happily walked out the door.

By the time Middle and Little came home from school, they were both all to happy to head back outside and have some fun in the snow.

They made giant snowballs.

They made smaller snowballs. Middle may also have been caught putting those small snowballs in the hood of Little's coat.

There was lots of snow throwing and lots of stomping around.

There was lot sand lots of happiness.

The other big thing this week was getting ready for Middle's 6th birthday.

This was my first birthday party since becoming a Momma to four Little Men. I will admit it was really rather tough to pull off. There were plenty of moments were I just wanted to scrap it all and buy some pizzas and let them all play video games.

Since I had promised Middle an Avengers party, and because that made him super duper excited, I stuck with the whole shindig.

We had tons of fun and I think the party was a success.

Here is a sneak peak for now. I will post about all our Avenger fun next week.

Have a happy and lovely Sunday.

Matching Sweater Gloves for Braided Scarf

If you go back to this post, you will recognize where I got the cable sweater for these gloves. I had SO much sweater left over I decided to make myself a pair of matching gloves. It was pretty easy, setting aside that the sweater got a little wonky as I sewed it making the edges not as rounded as I would have liked.

What made it so easy was that I cut the mitten pattern from the bottom of the sweater, so there was no edge to finish. See--

My favorite part is the sweet knit lining on the inside. These two colors are on my current "heart it" list.

It snowed a ton yesterday so I put them on to keep my hands toasty warm. Totally worked. My hands haven't been this happy in a LONG time. I may or may not have worn gloves much up to this point. AND my hands may or may not look like those of a withered 80 year old. Sorry hands I promise to try to fix that.

We all got bundled up to enjoy the snow.

We had a blast.

However, now that I have got my hands all toasty warm, maybe I should work on actually buying a pair of appropriate boots so that my feet don't get frost bite and so I don't lose a toe or two.