Snowman

With cabin fever closing in, we headed outside to get some fresh air and make a snowman. Sadly, the snow is still too crunchy and dry to roll but I did manage to pat together this mini-snowman. The boys also had a lot of fun making snow angels and sliding down the slide in the backyard. Yay winter!

Snow Storm!

It snowed all day today and after naps we headed to our driveway for a little simple sledding. Honestly, the boys are always just as happy there as when we troop them over to the big hill at Cool Creek so why bother?! The fun was short-lived--it took us 15 minutes to get everyone dressed and ready and then we were only out for about 10 minutes but they had fun. I love Andrew's face buried in his coat in this picture!

Happy 2010!

We took the kids to the Indiana State Museum for their family New Years Celebration, where they have a balloon drop at 8:00. They had all sorts of fun stuff to do before the big countdown, too, including hula hoops...

...train rides on the Santaland Express (recreated from the old LS Ayres train that used to run at the downtown department store)...

...a live band to dance to--this is Andrew break dancing, sort of!

and here's some video of my dancing fools. Alex, in particular was in rare form that night!

Here are Nick and Alex waiting for the big drop!

Sneaking an early New Years kiss from one my best guys!

A quick video clip of the balloon drop--I was trying to capture all the action at once which was not easy!!!

Alex right as the balloons were dropping--the kids thought this was just fantastic!

Even after they fell, Andrew was still looking for more balloon manna from the ceiling!

Each of the boys got a balloon to take home and it was a great night! Happy New Year everyone!!!