Spring Break

We had a quiet spring break, but I don't think they kids cared too much. They are just happy to play every day. Melissa's Dad is here for a visit, so we didn't get together, we just did our own things. We got so much snow that it took most of the week to melt. We played outside a couple of times. The Colorado sunshine is bright and Dagny could hardly see. We need to find the sunglasses!!

There was a layer of ice under the snow, so jumping on the trampoline was impossible, they would just fall down. The snow was really wet and heavy and made the tramp really saggy.

Lincoln sat on the little retaining wall for the flower bed and the snow had drifted so much he could just lay back in the snow. 

Climbing in the snow. It was pretty steep, and walking up was challenging.

The kids were walking along on what they thought was the retaining wall, when

one of Dagny's feet went into the snow on the side of the wall and she was stuck! I thought she was just pretending when she called out for help, but the snow was deep enough she couldn't pull her leg out. She was scared for a minute until I pulled her out. Then her boot came off her foot and was stuck in the snow. We dug her boot out, got it back on her foot, and she was back to playing in no time, but she was pretty careful where she walked after that.

A snow cake with one candle! Made using the sandbox bucket for a mold. They said it was my birthday and sang "Happy Birthday" to me and told me to blow out the candle. Cute!

Lincoln has really played with the legos a lot lately. He is always building something and coming to give it to me. Today he had a train full of people and was making a house for them to live in.

Dagny has always enjoyed puzzles and now she can do the 48 piece ones all by herself! She's so proud!

Lincoln is pretty good at the 24 piece ones. Sometimes he needs a little help.

He was loving the sun glasses today.

Such cute smiles, I couldn't help taking a bunch of pictures!

Delwyn has been cleaning the garage and found this train that belonged to Austin. He has been wanting to set it up and play with the kids. Today was the day!

They are a little too young to operate the train by themselves, but they had fun pressing the button to start it and watching it go around the track.

Delwyn also found some Lincoln logs and thought it would be fun to let Lincoln play with something that has the same name. Lincoln is quite the builder--maybe he will be an engineer like Grandpa!