Snow, Snow, and More Snow

Well, we finally dug out from our 14 inches of snow over the weekend without any school delays. However, we are now set to get another 12 - 18 inches Tuesday night. I'm running out of places to put the snow. At least we got in some good sledding on Sunday before the Superbowl.

Carrie (She really wasn't injured):


Kimmy:

Leah:

Our New Additions

After weeks of window shopping, the girls have adopted 2 kittens. Their names are Jodie and Pippi. Jodie is the black and gray tiger stripped tabby, and Pippi is the black and brown calico one. They are staying with their foster family until we get back from our Christmas trip, but everyone is quite excited about getting them home.

Christmas Piano Recital

Sorry for not posting in a while, but here is a video of Kimmy's performance at her Christmas Piano Recital yesterday.

Kimmy's Recital

Kimmy had her spring piano recital today. Her first song was a duet with her friend Makenna (Penguin Parade). Her second song was Fur Elise (hope I spelled that right). The video from her recital is below. Enjoy.

Spring Activities

Well, I haven't posted anything in quite some time so here are some pictures of our recent spring activities.

Everyone dressed up for church on Easter Sunday.

Good stuff from the Easter Bunny:

Grandma Brooks came to visit. She made bunny cake with the girls which is always a much anticipated Easter activity. She seemed not too frazzled with 7 girls around so we figure we'll see how she can handle 10 next time.

Softball season began. Kimmy tried her hand at catcher (aka the girl who gets hit a lot by the pitcher and doesn't really catch anything).

Leah preffered to catch some rays next to the field:

Kimmy and her friend Makena getting ready for the big day:

Kimmy also decided she was going to try a kids triathalon (75 yard swim, 1 mile bike ride and half mile swim). They wore timnig chips and everything so it was very serious. Kimmy was quite nervous. Here she is before the start at the pool. I think all 7-10 year olds have the same nervous finger biting habit before a big event.

She made it out of the pool and is getting on her bike. Still looking pretty good.

Rounding the final corner from the run. She was getting pretty tired at this point but she ran all the way through the finish and did a good job. We'll be in Hawaii next year for the ironman I'm sure.

One last funny picture. Kimmy felt the need to try curlers. Of course this lasted only until she put her head on the pillow and realized that it might not be entirely comfortable to sleep in.

New room and new ears

Kimmy has been upgrading her style lately. We just finished redecorating her room. She chose a two tone color pattern with a fancy horse border in the middle. It looks quite nice and is probably the best decorated room in the house at this point. We also went to the mall this weekend and she got her ears pierced, which was very exciting. She looks good with her new ears (little difficult to see in the pics below).

Christmas Preparations

We're getting in the Christmas spirit and are getting ready for our big trip to Kentucky to visit family and friends. We just hope Santa can find us back in the hills of Kentucky.

The girls after decorating the tree.



Baking sugar cookies to give to teachers and friends.

Decorating the sugar cookies (I think more icing ended up in their bellies than on the cookies...oh well!)

A sugar cookie Masterpiece! The wine helped the whole process go much more smoothly (for Mom and Dad of course).