Luckily, Emma is awesome, and it didn't phase her one bit.  She played beautifully.  Love this cute friend she does lessons with.  And we sure love Sis. Bradshaw who has brought so much music into our house!  

Lots of beautiful, fresh snow and some cheese fries made for a couple of fun ski days over MLK weekend!  We have loved, loved, loved doing this together as a family this year.  Best Christmas present ever!    That is Carter coming down on the left and Emma on the right – with Meg in…

This was our year to spend Thanksgiving with the Adams family at Little America!  We finally got on board and joined a few of them in spending the night at the hotel before dinner the next day.  Our kids think hotels are the greatest!  They loved our view from the 12th floor,   Swimming in…

    I came upon Meg "helping" to wash the mirrors with wet toilet paper.   I voted (thanks to a reminder from my Dad) We had some of these sibling moments… I cleaned out the unfinished room in preparation for the finishing… it sure is hard to get rid of things representative of so…

We started the day off helping with Carter's Thanksgiving Feast at school.   They have a big feast wearing their decorated vests (note the intricate patterns at the top of Carter's vest and then the shift in detail as he went on 🙂 and using their fancy placemats (Carter's class did pictographs that were super cool.)…

We decided this year to get ski passes as part of our Christmas gifts for the family, and that meant everyone going together.  The big kids had done ski school last year and Carter had been a couple of times, but having everyone on the slopes was a new adventure.  Thank heavens that Nate is…

Carter had a few fun things all of his own in November!  First was the 2nd grade Tiny Town.  The kids love this.  They each choose and create a building to be part of their town and then set it up in the classroom one afternoon.  In the middle of football season, of course Carter…

Carter's team was so excited to make it to the championship game.  They played a much bigger team and it was a close game (unlike the rest of the ones we played!)   Carter was in for the game-winning touchdown – super exciting.   Lots of celebration for the victory – Carter even got in…

  Whenever we run errands, Meg invariably finds (and gets attached to) some beanie boo that she can't afford (since all she has is a few coins!)  Sometimes it pacifies her to take a picture with it, sometimes we just have to leave the store in a blaze of glory.  It depends a lot on…