Playing catch up

I know that blogging is NOT a hard thing to do, but for some reason I don't do it with any regularity. So this post I will be playing catch up. Here are pictures from the beginning of the year till now.

We celebrated Brian's birthday at the end of January. Jake, Angie and Kai came over to celebrate with us. We had some dinner and some ice cream cake.

For some reason, I told them I wanted red frosting. As you can tell, it didn't turn out that way. I was kicking myself, because of course there was the possibility it would turn out pink. Brian decided to don his pink shirt to match the cake.

In the middle of February, when the snow started melting, we decided to go out and build a snowman. Grant and Sasha were taking naps, so Ethan and I went out by ourselves. It was Ethan's idea to use frozen blueberries for the mouth and blackberries for the eyes. I thought that was a pretty good idea . . .

Until the next day when the berries started melting . . . maybe a halloween snowman?


The next morning Grant, Sasha and I went out to build our own snowman while Ethan was at school. The snow was so hard, there was no way that was going to happen. As you can see, Sasha is just enjoying eating the snow. That does get a little gross as the snow starts melting and they start eating snow from pretty much anywhere. We ended up sleding off a small hill instead. It was pretty fun!


In about the middle of March, we decided to get some baby chicks. We were going to raise them and then butcher them for meat (I know that sounds horrible, but what else do you do when you get chicks?). We don't really have room for egg layers, so anyway, that's what we did. They were really cute when they were small, but unfortunately they grew fast. They do grow fast and we knew that, it still surprised me though. At the beginning of this week, we decided to see if some friends of ours wanted the chicks (actually chickens at this point). They have about an acre of land, and just more room than we do. So, they are staying at our friends house for now.

Here is Ethan at an Easter egg hunt that we had at Jake and Angie's house, in their almost finished basement.

L to R: Ethan, Grant, Teagan, Melissa, Kai, Whitney, and Brian looking for treasures.

Diane (Brian's mom), Melissa, Whitney (Brian's sisters), and Teagan (Melissa's son), came down around Easter to visit. They visited with us on Saturday. Here are Teagan and Sasha enjoying the Connect Four game. For some reason, it was a big hit among the toddlers.

Jake, Angie, Kai, and Jax were also able to come visit. Here is a picture of all of the grandchildren. L to R: Baby Jax, Kai, Ethan, Sasha, Grant, Teagan

My apologies to the Durtschi family who have already seen the Easter pictures. I always forget my camera and if I do have it close, I forget to take pictures, so I "borrowed" the pictures from Melissa and Angie. Thanks Melissa and Angie! I also couldn't figure out how to center these pictures. The pictures on top were no problem. Oh well.