Home Depot Workers

Our local Home Depot had a customer appreciation day a couple of weekends ago. We took the kids because they had a kids' workshop, free balloons, popcorn and some raptors from the U of MN raptor center. It was a fun morning!

Eddie and Daddy building a moving truck.

 At the kids' workshop, they had a choice of making a moving truck, toolbox or helicopter.  I choose the toolbox for Edith (thank goodness) which was really easy to make. Check out the photo above, Edith was really excited to use a hammer!

Edith checking out Daddy and Eddie.

Eagle and Owl (not pictured, a falcon)

Edith finished sooner, so we got popcorn - Daddy and Eddie with finishing touches

Eddie's truck!

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And you can't end a trip to Home Depot without a "ride" on the tractors! Eddie's on the orange one, of course!

Valentine's Day 2013

 So this post is a week late - oops. I won't even go into details other than to say, stomach flu.

Anyhow - the day before V-day, I made cut-out cookies with the kids.  They loved decorating the cookies and Eddie told me who was going to get each cookie.  It was pretty cute.

Unfortunately with all the germs and stuff in our house, we didn't give many cookies out. Hopefully next year!

Ice Fishing

I never did get those pictures off of Uncas's phone, but they did make it in the local paper:

http://current.mnsun.com/2013/02/photos-richfield-ice-fishing-bowl-2013/

Eddie is holding hot chocolate. I think he had more fun drinking that, eating a cookie and scooping ice out of the hole.  They didn't catch anything, but he had fun.  He said it was fun, but he also said it was cold.



Edith threw a huge fit when the guys left, but after I explained that you have to sit still in the cold and be quiet, she was fine (really, I got out a new toy to distract her).

This reminds me of the story of me when I was a young naive little girl.  We were living up in Michigan and driving over a bridge in winter.  I looked out the window and saw all these little houses on the frozen water.  I asked my parents about it and they said it was people ice fishing.  I asked if we could go sometime and they both said NO! What wise people :-)  Truth be told, I have gone to visit Uncas while he was ice fishing on Lake Harriet when we lived at our duplex.  It's truly not a sport for me, but I'm hopeful that one of the kids will take it up, so Daddy has an ice fishing partner.

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Still Here

Wow - I can't believe it's been two weeks since my last post. We have been sick. Still are, but hopefully on the mend. I won't bother with all the details, but I can honestly say that this winter sucks!  But I know it could be so much worse and a lot of families are struggling with the same thing.

This weekend Uncas took Eddie ice fishing for the first time.  The DNR sponsored an event at a local lake.  Uncas has a few pictures on his phone, so I'll have to get them from him soon.  They also played in the snow yesterday. Eddie's had quite a lot of fun lately!

Here are some pictures from last week of the kids while we were quarantined at home!

Edith with her purse and glasses

What Mama?

Looking for something . . .

Putting her lipstick on Eddie

Putting lipstick on herself!

I mainly haven't blogged because it's been a lot of the same old, same old around here. For the past two weeks, our big outing has been Target. So far I've been able to change it up big time this week - today we went to Pet Smart! Up for tomorrow - the car dealership! Yes, I sure know how to show the kids a good time!