It was a warm day (by February Minnesota standards!) and the kids spent the afternoon playing outside.  Emma kept yelling, "I think this is spring!!"   And crazy Meg found out she loves jumping down the neighbors steps.  Good thing she still had her helmet from bike riding on.  :)

And happy cheesecake.  You can eat the whole thing.  :)

A famous Lego artist had an exhibit come to Park City, and since Zach had admired his creations for years, we had to go check it out.  It was quite the adventure… and we may or may not have moved a small yellow piece from a pile of loose bricks that you were not supposed to…

If it wasn't such a busy week, the grandparents may have gotten a card that looked like this.  :)  Perhaps next year…  (can you tell someone would have nothing to do with letters on their feet?) All morning as we went about our crazy day, I kept finding these… even one in the midst of the…

   Emma left valentine notes hidden around the house for everyone… we all loved them!  There was one in Nate's shoe that said "You are a gift to me."  Did I say we loved these?!? My mom and I spent an afternoon making cake balls… there was a lot of laughing.  Super fun.     …

When I took Zach to IHOP for his birthday, the waitress told us about "free pancake day" – a fundraiser they do where they give everyone all day 3 free pancakes each, and they take donations  for the children's hospital.  Of course Zach asked me over and over again if it was free pancake day yet,…

Kids are awesome.  Some examples:   Carter used every bit of blue chalk we had to make "bear lake".  And he knew just what he wanted the sled and rakes for.  It isn't often he independently heads off with a big plan and does his own thing… I loved watching this! And this girl with…

After many, many years of spurts of "working on" family history, I got the first set of my ancestors' names ready for temple work and my dad and I went to do the baptisms for them this morning.  I kept thinking all day long that Elder Scott was right:  "…it will make you feel wonderful."

Even with the stool drug out from the bathroom, the cookies were just too far back on the counter… can you tell how she feels about that?  (Before you feel bad for her, just know she had already had plenty…)

This time we shoveled after school and everyone played out in it all afternoon… building a snow fort and defending castles from invaders.  And eating the snow, of course.  It's apparently impossible not to.