gingerbread houses

So......how are you........how have you been......yes it's been awhile. Which really is a good thing, it means I'm not sick, stuck on a couch or bed!! We've been healthy for about two months now. A few of the boys picked up some sort of 24 hr virus this weekend, but it's one that makes them really miserable and that's it. So we'll take it, over our previous virus's of the last year.

We're getting slammed with a snow storm today. Spring decided to play with us this weekend. We had about 80% of the snow melted with temps up to 50 degrees and then BAM we're supposed to get up to 8 inches by the morning. Such fun...... Brent's out snow blowing now.

Some of what has kept us busy is a weekly Lego class that the four older boys are taking. It's been really neat and it covers a wide range of things. The teacher also teaches the same class and others to public school kids and the classes cover different state benchmarks. The boys are bringing home what they learn and applying it to their Legos. Once again I'm contending with Legos EVERYWHERE. I finally lost patience with the Legos everywhere this week and started enforcing the rule where Legos stay upstairs, period.

We're also practicing archery every week to head to a tournament the last weekend of March. That's on Thursday and we use that day to also go to the library.

On the other days we've been doing good with keeping to our school routine and getting lots done there. The boys are old enough to be turned loose with science experiments and they've had a ball with that this past week. I'm hoping to get those pics up this week.

These are the pictures from this past Christmas's gingerbread houses. As has become a tradition we went to our friend's Carrie and Andrew's home and made houses with many friends and family of theirs. We have been doing it long enough that they are also our friends and family too!


Jayden test tasting to make sure that the frosting was good enough for his house.

Lee and Jayden working on their houses.

Max supervising Brent while he works on Max's house.

The candy for the decorating of the houses.

As usually happens somebody has to wait to do their house due to space limitations. Here Than and Collin play/sing some Christmas music. They've really come to have a passion for playing and really enjoy it. Than has excelled in teaching himself several songs. Aunt Becky recently sent him several songs and he's now working on them.

I'll be sure to let you know when we've dug out from this latest storm!!