Just hear those sleigh bells jingling...

We went on a sleigh ride on Sunday.

It was wintry and blissful.

We went to a place called Beaver Meadows

 with my mom and dad

to experience a fun, snowy afternoon.

We rode in a one-horse-open-sleigh,

sang a couple of tunes,

drank some HOT chocolate and ate some yummy cookies,

made a couple of paper crafts,

and best of all created some wonderful memories. 

We hope to repeat them year after year after year.

Happy Night

My big girls and I are sitting on the couch, in our"new" old  living room, watching "Gilmore Girls".  It's making me happy.  They are really into it and I love that.  They are laughing and talking and commenting and staying up much later than they should, but we are having a nice time.  The little ones are in bed, and Marky and Maddie are leaving us for 4 days; I think that I'm trying to squeeze out the most of the best from the time that we have left before they leave town.  It's a happy night indeed.

Another party

We have finished the season of parties with a bash at Chucke Cheese.  We went there with Grandma and Poppop Oman and our friends, the Sealanders.  Birthday presents, toy prizes, 4 pizzas and 300 tokens later, we all left the place full and happy.  Michael was thrilled with all of the shooting games, truck rides, and activities with balls.  He dragged his special pal MiKayla around the place, inserting tokens into things that he really had no intention of playing, just because he could!  It was another very successful birthday, and now we have a break until late spring on the birthday front.  That's good, because even I am a little partied out!!!