Snow Days!

Last week, William had Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off for snow days. Not only did we get a lot of snow but we had sub-zero temperatures on Thursday. The boys and I spent the days playing a lot of board games, converting our train table into a lego table, making pasta, playing hockey in the basement, and doing other miscellaneous arts and crafts projects. On Friday, it was actually fairly warm out (around 15F) so we were able to play outside a bit. On Friday night, we had family movie night and then the boys camped out in the family room. Alex was so excited to finally be one of the big boys.

Sorry!

Snow fort in the cup-de-sac

Parking garage for our hot wheels cars

Lego Table

My sous chef

Our poor garden

So excited!

Bowling Birthday Party

Today was Alex's bowling birthday party. He was so excited! He has been looking forward to this for such a long time (and telling everyone that would listen). We had two lanes at Airway Lanes. We let the kids bowl with the bumpers and dragon on one lane and the grown-ups took the other. We enjoyed a pizza lunch and then played a few arcade games. Then we came back to the house for cake and ice cream and presents.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Alex!

Happy Birthday to our sweet Alex! He woke up all smiles and knew it was his birthday. We started the day with a blueberry pancake breakfast under some Thomas the Train decorations. After breakfast, he opened a couple of gifts from us as well as an amazing wooden shark made by Uncle Art. Alex's big gift was a baseball pinball game. He loves the one the Hofmeyer's have at their cottage. Alex had his choice of where we went for lunch today. He chose the McDonald's with the two story play area. The boys played for quite some time both before and after lunch. Then we came back home to have a little cake. Alex requested a Thomas the Train cake which we will have at his family party tomorrow but we needed to have some cake for his actual birthday, too! Now the boys are watching a Thomas movie and may go to the WMU basketball game tonight.

Happy New Year!

We were invited to our friends' house for New Years Eve again this year. It is a family friendly event and the boys were really looking forward to it. The kids both had a great time with all their friends - they played air hockey, basketball shoot-out, video games, and played with all the fun toys at the Grindall's. Both kids made it until midnight to see the ball drop.

Wood Shop

For Christmas, Aunt Mara and Uncle Ken gave William a woodworking kit. There were three projects: a corner shelf, tool box, and treasure chest. We decided it would be more fun for William to get to work on them with Uncle Ken in his shop than at our house (likely on the floor of our family room). On Monday, we went up to GR for the day so they could get to work. William chose the treasure chest because he needed a new spot for all his treasures (throwing some out is clearly not an option). While Uncle Ken and William worked, Alex played with Aunt Katie's old train set. William had a lot of fun and is looking forward to working on the next project!

Taking a break while the wood glue dries