"Spring" activities & weather comparison

April 12 - quite a bit of snow! Tryin on the big man gloves.

April 22 - Another snow :(

April 25 - No coat, snow gone. Raking new grass seed.

April 27 - picnicing in shorts.

Levi is trying out his scissors and is already good at it!

Andrew took Levi to see the racecars at our track. He loved it. When it got loud, he wore my flying headset. :)

Levi can blow his own bubbles now!

My two cuties.

Toddler friend over for a play date.

finger painting for Mimi and Papa.

Trying out the sling.

Those are big shoes to fill!

House project time with Daddy! Thanks for the great shoe rack hun!

Warmer Weather Fun

Okay, so a few days ago, when Andrew was gone for the weekend, I was getting desperite to keep Levi occupied. We NEEDED to get outside but it was cold. (3 degrees for the low at night) I started making "train tunnels" out of our couch cushions.

We also went out for a "treat" date of fries but as you can  see, we came home and he ended up eating mostly "salad dippers" as we have affectionately named ripped up lettuce with ranch. He is learning :0) 

God gave us 3 beautiful days in a row since then! 56 degrees, 65 degrees and then 53 degrees. We have been outdoors ALMOST non-stop. Here he is painting the grass green to help spring along.

Then he decided to paint the sky. (notice this picture is from the 1st "warm" day and the following photos show the amazing snow melt that followed in only 3 days!)

Levi found a sweet little hideaway in the neighbors evergreens.

Here Levi points out our growing daffodils.

Levi is on his way to an egg hunt with his friends.

Precious!

It randomly clouded up and rained for a few minutes while we were at the park waiting for the egg hunt so I hustled the kids in to the truck to keep dry.

The egg hunt is held at a nursing home here so we talked with the residents and petted baby goats, chicks, and ducks until it started. That is about all for now. :) An attempt at a family picture will be made tomorrow.

The 1st Few Days

1 week before birth. (The "nice" belly shot)

2 hours before birth. (the "not so nice" belly shot)

Daddy's 1st time holding Elijah.

Levi's 1st visit with Elijah. He ran in the room, looked at Elijah and said, "cute", then ran off to look out the window at the bulldozers. :)

My guys!

My friends Jessica and Crystal visited us at the hospital. (so did a few more friends but I didn't get photos of them )

Home! I am not sure what Levi thinks :)

What having 2 boys REALLY looks like...

Levi's 1st time holding Elijah.

Snuggles.

1st Trick or Treat

Levi fit in to the cute astronaut costume given to us by Mimi Crandall. I wasn't sure how he would do in it as he isn't a big fan of things on his head some days but he loved it!

We went to a local nursing home that was passing out candy and visited with the residents while trick or treating. 

Then we went over to our neighbors homes to say hello and trick or treat. Now when he sees the lights on he says "Trick or treat?"

I dressed up as "Mars" to walk around the nursing home with Levi. You can see my tape with writing on my belly if you click on the photo or just squint. :)

We went on a trip to Hot Springs, SD the other weekend for Presbytery and I have a lot of photos so I figured I would post a few here and then do another post. It was the day of our 1st snow of the season and was cold but Levi, a friend from church and I enjoyed a walk to see the hot springs flowing and falling in downtown. All through the winter the water is still warm. It was really nice.

Another thing I did recently was help a group of ladies (2 from my church and several from a nearby community) sew some dresses for "Little Dresses for Africa". Levi played happily without throwing pins, thread or touching the sewing machines most of the day. We were glad to get out of the house as the men were working all day in our house replacing windows and using power tools. (More on the windows in another post. )