Josh and the Tooth Fairy

Guess who's coming to our house tonight?  The tooth fairy!!  Way to go Josh....

Valentine's Day Love

Valentine's Day love...  Some fun in the snow, plenty of time chilling with the boys and a great visit from our friends the Tim & Lydia and a fabulous introduction to their newest member of the family.  Welcome to the party Edward.

Pinewood Derby

Pinewood Derby Cub Scout fun, for more photos check out my Outside Inn blog post.  Ben and Dan's car won the prize for "Most Unique" and Ben was very excited that his car won 3 of its heats for speed (although we don't know how fast it was out of all 60 cars).  Ben's idea was to build a Hersey chocolate bar, the boys build it to scale, including a mould made out of silicone and then filled with acrylic to cast the blocks.  Dan took out a bite out of the wood car with a drill press and then wrapped the whole car in an actual wrapper.

Boys doing school work

Just another glimpse of every day life in our household.  Ben and Josh working on some schoolwork, me taking their photos.

Happy Birthday Josh

Happy Birthday Josh!  At 6 years you bring us joy with your contagious giggles, questions, bright eyes, enthusiasm and can do attitude.  Today you spent the morning hanging with your ski team, but took a few runs with us in the afternoon, needing to go down the knolls and go off rocks.  We finished the day with a play at Commons Beach with our friends and a pizza dinner.

Ben, age 8 1/2

It's Ben's half birthday, so as a nod to some previous posts I've done (here or here) here's a few tid bits about Ben at age 8 1/2.

• Lego Maniac
• Kuk Swool Won blue belt with red stripe
• likes reading (recently read Island of the Blue Dolphon, Catching Fire and Harry Potter)
• Skiing
• Bike Riding
• Playing Minecraft
• Enjoys jokes, "What do you call a talking burrito?  A Taco."
• Camping
• Gummy bears
• Hot chocolate
• chess

And a little video from the boys recent camping trip.

Christmas Photos

Christmas already seems like ages ago, funny how the holidays come and go like a whirlwind.  Here are a few photos from Christmas Day that I meant to share.  Happy New Year's.