Cute Kate

How cute is this? I just put a black blanket over her bouncy seat and snapped some photos. I was excited that they turned out so cute. I wanted to send these out for Valentines but the LAME-O Walmart one hour photos was down.

Snowman

Our snowman turned out pretty good. His eyes were peanut M&M's and a carrot nose, of course. A piece of wood for the mouth and some tumble weed for the arms (there's plenty of that around here). It's so healthy for my boys to have some time with Mom and without Kate. It makes me feel like a better Mom when I set aside time to focus on playing with the kids rather than cleaning.

Fun in the snow

Don't look too close at me. Good thing I stayed in my yard rather than going in public looking like this with yesterdays makeup on. Read and Gage and I had such a fun time playing in the snow. It was the perfect packing snow so we made a pretty great snowman.

Markers

This is why my kids cannot color with markers while unsupervised.

Kate's blessing day

Kate was blessed on February 1st and it was such a great day! We had a lot of people come to take part in Kate's special day. Thanks to all of you who made such an effort to be here with us. Andy blessed Kate and did a wonderful job. It was definitely a spiritual experience for us all. We are so thankful that we have little Kate in our family. She's a sweet, sweet baby. Every day I remind myself what a lucky mama I am. We wish some of our Colorado friends could have joined us. We miss you guys.