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| This pruney-thumbed kid is officially a YMCA green-band swimmer! |
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| Learning to solder using their new Christmas soldering kit so they can put together their Escape Robot and AM/FM Radio kits. It's not easy! |
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| Futsal is ON! |
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| Happy first Sunday of 2015! |
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| Luke wasn't too thrilled to have to move up to Senior Primary, but he had a great time in class with two fantastic teachers, so all was well by the time we left church. Change is hard! |
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| Gotta get the chores done before heading back to school. The boys were singing "It's a Hard Knock Life." Ha! |
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| 2015 has started with some really impressive sunsets. |
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| On the last day of winter break we made sure everyone had a good time. Tommy and Luke each had a pal over to the house to play. Laughter, shrieking and fun ensued! |
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| Josh went on a snowy, slippery hike to Helen Hunt Falls with his friend, Austin. He couldn't stop talking about how fun it was sliding on his bum down the mountain. |
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| Adam took Zac and Ben up for a great day at Copper. Zac said it was one of the best days of boarding he's ever had. |
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| At our troop's Court of Honor, Ben received TWO rank advancements. Nicely done, First Class Scout, Ben! |
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| Wednesday morning the kids were due back at school. Luke and Josh had a hard time getting moving. I could empathize; I wasn't quite ready for break to be over either. Back to the real-life schedule! |
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| This is what "frigid" looks like. It is the beauty of cold! We've had our typically crazy Colorado winter days, with temperatures in the mid- to upper-50's one day, then barely out of the single-digits the next. Back and forth, back and forth. Not surprisingly, Josh's bloody noses are frequent occurrences. |
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| Our little Luke-o-Lantern! I am going to miss that darling little baby-toothed smile! |
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| The back-to-school week was only three-days long, and Friday ended up with a two-hour delay. When the boys woke up and heard the news, they looked outside and said, "But there's no snow." So I told them to go out and see why school was delayed. Our entire city was covered in a thin, and super slick, layer of ice! So slick, that the boys could slide from top to bottom of our slightly-sloped driveway and then do a little slidey dance trying to get back up, as Zac is doing in this series of photos. Notice he never gets closer to that line as he moves his feet. |
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| Since the beginning of the year, every few days I've been doing a little decluttering job. Friday's job was to find all the dried out markers, eraser-less pencils, broken crayons and unsharpened colored pencils and throw them out or sharpen them up. Since preschool was cancelled due to the delay, Tommy had a great time helping me with this task and wanted to keep the "pretty picture" we made. |
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| While so very cold, the icy days are extraordinarily beautiful! When I went to pick the elementary boys up from school, I noticed there were places on the sidewalk where the salt the janitors put down to melt the ice had only been able to melt a small circle. As if in response to this insult, the ice crystals had bloomed upward around the melted spot, creating little ice flowers with a melted salty center. |
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| Then someone slipped on the slick road and crashed their car into our neighborhood transformer, and the power went out, just as night was falling. |
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| Three hours later the transformer was replaced and the lights came back on. But we weren't done with our game of Twister yet, so we carried on. |
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| Although he was with me because he was in trouble, I was glad to have brought my muscle for Saturday's mighty Costco run. I hadn't been since November, so.... |
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| The three older boys at Glow Dartz on Saturday night with Micah and Grant. Word. |
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