Fun Winter Activities!

Zach and Daddy played the longest Monopoly game ever from Christmas day to New year's Day and Zach won! He had about $15,000 and a monopoly on the Railroads. Mikayla bowed out after a couple of days out of sheer boredom. Zach said as soon as he won, "Mom, send this picture to Austin and tell him I won Monopoly!!!"

Zach and Mikayla got new build-a-bears and made a little village under the dining room table complete with an elevator! Finally the dining room is being put to good use!
Aunt Kelly made a surprise visit last week(Jan.8-10)!! We were so excited to have her here and she got to hear the baby's heartbeat, still around 160 bpm! I am about 18 weeks in this picture. This was after a morning of pampering at the salon.

The baby is about the size of a large heirloom tomato now. I am about 19 weeks now and will get to have my ultrasound this week!! I have been feeling lots of kicks! Kelly did such a great job keeping the kids entertained while she was here so that I could rest. I am still having lots of bad days mixed with a few ok days here and there. Shouldn't be too much longer now.
Of course with Kelly around there was lots of fun and silliness. She and Zach are two peas in a pod!

This past week we got lots of cold and snow and the kids actually braved the 0 degree weather to snowboard and sled. Here is Zach snowboarding. He has had no instruction except what Jeff taught him about skateboarding! He is a natural and has no fear. There is a creek lined with rocks at the end of this hill on the side of our house. I took all these pictures from the window. There is no way I was going out in the cold. The day after this it was -11 degrees!!!
They sure had fun!! I made them come in after about 20 minutes and by then they were frozen!

Yummy hot cocoa!!The Cardinals didn't seem to mind the cold at all. There were tons of them playing in our backyard all day. It was so neat to watch.