Melting

This week we had 2 days of really nice weather so the kids played outside.

Katie and Aaron found their bikes and had a great time riding around the driveway now that we can see the hole thing again.

All day it looked like a river coming down our driveway from all melted snow.

We had a great couple days outside and we can't wait for spring to be here. Now we are back to winter weather with snow on the way in the next couple days can't wait till winter will be over.

Snow Castles

We had a small break in the winter weather and the sun finally came out!

Aaron took the afternoon to be outside and had a great time. He is ready for summer so he found his shovel and pale and headed outside to make snow castles.

He walked around the house and found his scooter. The snow piles are quite large with over 2 feet of snow on the ground. You can barely see his head above the piles.

It's been a while since Aaron has played outside and he didn't want to come in.

Yesterday the sun was out all day and it reached 50, such a change from the past month when we have been in the 20's most of the time.

It was such a great sight to see part of our roof again only a small sign that winter is coming to a close, spring is in sight and we all can't wait!!

Katie's Swim Crazy!

Katie has had a few swim meets so far this year and she is having a great time being on the team!

She is a very good teammate always cheering them on during most of the meet.

She has improved so much since she started this year. Her favorite is still the back stroke and she is awesome at it.

Katie's coach has been working on her free style stroke and teaching her how to breath the right way and that has made her time cut to about half from where she was last year.

Katie loves to be in the water and is a good sport win or loose always making sure she shakes the other swimmers hand at the end of the race.

I love to watch her, she trys her best every time she gets into the water and that's all I can ask of her. Swim meets are long and its very warm in the pool area but it's all worth it to watch her having such a good time. Keep up the good work Katie your doing Great!!!

A hard ending to Basketball

Zach's basketball season is now over, but he had a great time playing this year.

Zach's team went into the playoffs 7 and 1 and in first place.

They played a great game but ended up loosing by one basket in the first playoff game.

Zach played really well and learned a lot this year. He was fouled near the end of the game and made 1 of the 2 foul shots, pretty good for his first time at the line. It was hard loosing but he had a great game. Great job Zach!!! Now we are onto indoor soccer, both Zach and Katie are playing this time, we love spending our Saturdays at the Y!

We Moved back to New England Why?

This winter has been a killer with snow and cold weather storm after storm they are never ending it seems. Now I know we moved here for a reason but its getting harder to remember why when you wake up and it is -17 out side like it is today!

We have had 3 or 4 heavy storms in the last few weeks and that means clearing it out just for us to get out of our driveway. When John and I work together we can get it done in and hour and a half, but when he is at work and I need to clear it alone so I can get to work now that is a different story. The driveway seems to get longer while I am out there and the time seems to fly by when I have only done half of what I think I should have finished.

Katie is our snow bunny she loves to go out and play and Cooper is happy to join her.

I think that it is funny that Katie goes from the pool to the snow so easy and never seems to get tired or cold very easy. She is the first to go out and the last to come in both in the pool and the snow, what a girl.

With the weather being so cold we have had alot of time to play games together and its been a lot of fun. We got a new game from my brother Frank this Christmas called Blockus and we love it. Everyone can play and when we are done playing the kids have added an new part to the game that they play together after that keeps them happy long after we are done playing its been great. I can't wait to see the end of winter but we are in New England so we still have a long road ahead of us. Can't Wait!!! (not really)

What A Storm

Wednesday started off with some light snow in the early a.m. hours and while were were all sleeping the snow came down like crazy!

By early afternoon we had about a foot on the ground and there was still now end to the storm.

Katie the brave one wanted to go out and play so she got dressed up into her winter gear and headed outside.

John went to clear a path for her and after about an hour you could hardly tell he was even out there.

Around 4 there was about 14 inches on the ground and the snow had slowed down so we all went to clean up.

As you can see even our snow blower couldn't handle all the snow and we had to go over it twice to clear the driveway.

Both Zach and Katie were very big helpers in getting the cars cleaned off and helped me shovel. We had a snow fight and we all jumped into the big piles of the snow once we were done working. We love to play in the snow it's just a mess to clean up. After about 3 hours we got the driveway cleaned and we went in to warm up, but the snow was still coming down so we know we would have to go back out. We had a fun day off, no school and no work it was nice to have an extra day to hang out as a family.

Basketball

This is Zach's 2nd year playing basketball but last year they didn't really play any games so he was very excited to start playing this year.

There are only 4 teams, playing once a week so they get a chance to play each other a few times.

I have never noticed that Zach is not very tall until he got out on the court this year and was one of the shortest boy out there, but he does not let that stop him from playing hard and he keeps up this the bigger boys.

Zach has learned a lot this year and has improved each week he plays. He is best at defence and he has become better at dribbling the ball down the court. His team is 5 and 1 only losing by 1 point this weekend. He really enjoys playing and that is what matters the most. Great Job Zach!