lego night

our family LOVES legos...even the girls. we recently got a few of the new pirates of the caribbean sets and decided to split up (think girls vs. boys) and put them together this week.

fins favorite is putting all the characters together...
jack was even nearby....dont be fooled by the chew toy...he tried to steal jack sparrow multiple times







...yes some of these are switched ;)

off topic....can you tell someones favorite ice cream flavor??

jack...

Jack is 10 months old!! He is so excited that the weather is nice enough to be outside....all...the...time!! So are we ;)

Jack at Christmas...

spring happenings

So its the ritual for every Catholic second grader...First Communion. Brady successfully completed his requirements (think lots of memorizing of prayers and the ten commandments) and was able to have his First Communion on May Day.

As quickly as the spring is passing us by, we did get some plants planted....
Which is great, because we have had some doozy storms!!

wordless wednesday

backlog blog

So I have been absent from the blog...not because we havent done anything, but because I didn't have the urge to tell the world. Since Disney we have celebrated both kids birthdays (Finley w/a Chinese party and Braden w/an Army party at the bowling alley), endured a Blizzard, celebrated Valentines day, a sneaky silly Leprechaun visited our house on St. Pattys day, Braden played a full schedule of YMCA basketball, the Superbowl and College March Madness occurred, Baseball Opening Day passed (go Yankees) and we have started baseball for the year.....thats just what I can remember!
We did venture up to Wisconsin to visit Seans brother and his family for his babe's, Abigail, baptism. Sean and I were the Godparents. Refer to Kari's blog to see the story unfold there.....but here are some of the pictures from the weekend....









This is Abby....the girl of the weekend!!

we love disney

We ventured to Sunny CHILLY Disney World the last week of our extended Christmas break. This time the Renfroe side of the family took part. My parents, sister and brother hadnt been to Disney world in 25 years (only Magic Kingdom)....so it basically was like a first time trip. The weather was pleasant during the day, think high sixtys with a breeze, and chilly at night, think 40s with wind. We walked and walked and walked and everyone did great. I think the Renfroes enjoyed their "first" trip to Disney and Finley asked me last week if we could go back after Valentines Day....um.......

The Disney Marathon was going on when we were there...that was kind of neat. Makes me want to whip my legs in shape so I could do the 1/2 marathon next year. BUUUUTTTT I doubt that will happen...3 miles is enough for me these days.

Here are just a few pictures. I have a large cache of them, however hate to bore you.

Were all in the same boat....

The official count in the paper today was 15 inches.....I know, I know, it doesn't look much...however it is drifted everywhere!!! There is one part in our back yard I stepped in that the snow went up to my mid thigh!! School has been cancelled for three days....kids are going stir crazy....im sick of making meals....we havent had fast food in days (which is rare for us).....we finally got out today and it was 6 degrees. There are mountains of snow EVERYWHERE in town....here are some pics from my house.

Across the street....the private plow had to be plowed out by apparently a city truck...

Finley is in a flowerbed and is almost level with the airconditioner
Drift outside a patio door...poor Jack...this hasn't been easy on the pets
Can you see how big that pile of snow is back there?? Thats from the driveway...the kids can't wait to sled down that!
The drifts are awe-some.
The groundhsaw did not see his shadow.....he is only 33 percent right....he is in Pennsylvania.....there is a chance of snow this Sunday and Monday....