President's Day

Aidan was very interested in President's Day this year. He wanted to make decorations for the house.

Valentine's Day

We started the day with heart-shaped donuts for breakfast.
Aidan bit his chicken nuggets into heart shapes for lunch. And ended the day with heart-shaped pizza for dinner. Kiersten's Valentines for school. Aidan's valentines for school. Aidan's box of chocolates, he bit each piece in half to decide in what order to eat them.

Wild Weather Week

Last week was a strange week in Texas weather. We started out Tuesday morning with a lot of freezing rain that coated the streets. School was cancelled. Then the temperatures stayed below freezing for three more days. Because Texas has no way to clear the ice, school was out the rest of the week. We also woke up to about six inches of snow on top of the ice Friday morning. We managed to get out and enjoy what we could of it but spent most of the week trapped in the house.

Watching the groundhog make his weather prediction Skating outside on the street (a rare event in Texas)

A lot of coloring was done

In the snow...

Love this picture because that big chunk of snow is about to hit Aidan in the head

Our boogie board sled

NFL Experience

Darren took Aidan down to the NFL Experience. They had fun checking out all the NFL stuff and testing their skills in some football games.

Snow Day 2011

On Saturday night, the weather forecasters were predicting big snow. We were a little disappointed that we woke up to only rain. About 11am though, the rain changed to big, wet snowflakes. What a fun treat to enjoy after church.

The boys built a snowman. Kiersten was excited at first but when she had trouble crawling around in it, she was ready to go back inside

Note: Aidan's awesome plastic bag boots. Free and recyclable. It is not worth buying boots for the one snowfall that we might get each winter.

Dallas Stars Autographs

Darren & Aidan went to watch the Stars practice and then waited afterwards for autographs. Aidan enjoyed getting to see the players close up and he is very proud of all the signatures he got.

And the signature of a future player?

Happy New Year 2011!

We rang in the new year with some friends this year. Actually, we were all asleep well before midnight but we thought we would try to trick the kids with an earlier celebration about 8pm. About one minute into watching the ball drop from 2010 online, Aidan asked, "Hey, why does it say 2009?" That kid is getting too smart to fool anymore. We still blew horns and toasted with apple juice then called it a night. Happy New Year!