Snow!!!

Gracie got three snow days home from school, and Tim's work was cancelled for some of that time too! The first few pictures are of the tiny drizzle of snow we got with the first cancellation. I have to laugh after growing up in Idaho, but I'll take days off anytime!

Olivia loved Tim jumping her on the tramp! Its hard to see in this picture, but she's grinning really big!

Lindsey slip-sliding . . .

They were having so much fun!

Lounging around in the house . . .

Tim put the tent up in the living room so that the kids could have some fun doing something different.

Everyone all bundled for the snow that we FINALLY got on the third day off . . .

Now that is more like it . . .

Gracie's poor hand is so red and cold!

A bunch of our tree branches broke off from the weight of the snow.

I could not get the snow to stick together so that I could roll big balls for a snowman. So frustrating!!! I saw snowmen all over our neighborhood, so I was bummed that I was from Idaho and seemed to be the only one who couldn't master the snowman building. The kids looked at our snowman funny and Gracie said, "That doesn't look like a snowman." Oh well! I tried.

Tim is such a good Dad! That's a lot of weight to pull!

Six Years Old!!!

Gracie had to wait a LONG time for her birthday this year. Haha! That was all we heard about for the whole month of January, and I even found this note in her dresser at the beginning of the month. I laughed so hard when I found it!

Tim was home on her birthday, so I thought it would be fun to surprise her at school and eat lunch with her. I brought her a Happy Meal from McDonalds. She was so shy while I was there. She just smiled and nodded her head at me and wouldn't talk. I called her "Baby Roo" at one point and she quickly glanced around at her friends to check if any of them heard me call her that. Too funny!

Her teacher told me that I needed to come to the room and see a story Gracie had written earlier that day. She was saving it to take it to some sort of meeting after school to show a sample of her students' work. I'm so proud of my smart, beautiful girl!!! All the kids got to pick two stickers for their picture, and then they had to think of a story to go with them. If you click on the picture, it should get larger so that you can see it better.

As soon as she got home we went straight to opening presents! Thank you everyone for spoiling her once again!!! She loved all her gifts and cards! She picked out the dress she is wearing while we were at the store and she wanted to wear it on her birthday. Little Sweetie!

Reading her cards all by herself . . .

Olivia was trying to put Gracie's headband back on.

Talking on the phone . . .

I've decided to start letting the kids pick out their own cake and decorate it all by themselves. That way the pressure is off of me, and they love it that much more since it is their own! She picked a pink strawberry cake with blue frosting!

Six years has just flown by! I love my little Grace and can't imagine life without her! Happy Birthday Little Roo!!! We love you so much!