Cold January

Another tractor pull- at the mall this time- Ethan was just happy to get a ribbon and a bottle of milk- he needs some more practice and more muscle.....
Playing in the snow!!

Snow angel Ethan

Ethan's wearing the new firefighter boots (and also has Charlie on his back)

Hannah loves to Vacuum......

Getting into trouble- Ethan's teaching her all his bad tricks

The diaper cabinet is just the perfect size for me!

Mom found these new rain boots at a goodwill- she couldn't resist, but Hannah wasn't so sure how to even walk in big tall boots, so she's not buying into it just yet. Ethan on the other hand, spent several hours trying to figure out how to fit his big feet into them, but never did get them shoved in there. Then we got to looking at boots on the internet and found a pair of firefighter rain boots that he really wanted. Mom came home with them several days later after having to spend another night in Fort Wayne because of the bad weather (she's on her last rotation that she can't be late or miss, of course in January, so there's been a couple days she's had to stay- but usually ends up shopping some because what else is there to do??). We can't wait until it gets warmer and the snow and ice stop!! Grandpa tried to convince us that this is coming soon based on the birds, but we're not sure we believe it yet- more snow is coming tomorrow night, mom's bringing her overnight bag to Fort Wayne in the morning. just in case!!

The last of the parties

And all the kids helping him open presents.... I think we're all partied out now for the 2 weeks until mom's birthday!!

Then Saturday we had Ethan's last birthday party with all his friends from the babysitters (and cousins)- here is his monster truck cake he loved (thank you clearance cakes from Wal-Mart)

Hannah relaxing on the chair with the big boys watching football and enjoying her first tall boy.

2 more parties last week- we went to Aunt Lou Ann's house for the Fritz family on New Year's- Hannah and Ruth loved getting pushed around in the car.

Henry comes to visit- Ethan

Henry and June came over to visit on my birthday!! We had to take him to the shop to show him all the big tractors and the combine- you could tell Henry's not used to all those big machines- he wanted to make sure we weren't going to start them up while he was around.
We finally talked him into getting into the combine, he even tried out the big tractor later on.

We're both checking out the backhoe.

All 4 kids on the couch- we had a great time playing with you Henry and June- have fun at Grandma and Grandpa's for the next week while mom and dad live it up in New Orleans- Hannah's gotten up at 5am the last 2 days, so you really have my mom and dad threatening to leave us with our Grandma and go away too. Thanks for the birthday presents we hope you'll come back when it's warm and swim in our pond!!