Criddle Girl's Weekend

The sign Juner made for the visitors.

Welcome Nanny and Kers and Karoline. (duh, like you couldn't read that)

For Christmas my mom got my sisters and I tickets to In the Heights. We had the perfect weekend eating out, shopping, laughing and making fun of my mom. (you know we love you, Mom)

The most special part was seeing LD Kidd IN THE SHOW.  He was my little sister's prom date and a really great guy from our hometown. After the show we got to see him and tell him how much we loved the show.

  Thank you for the fun weekend, love you guys.

The Road Not Taken

SLEDDING!

We greeted the teenagers in the driveway as the walked home from the bus. We walked to the neighborhood sledding spot and we weren't the first ones there. HAPPINESS!

Poor Sam spent most of his time in the stroller getting snowed on.

It didn't stop snowing.

/FINALLY, it was Sam-tastic's turn.

My sweet babies.

It's Here.

The snow started about 8:50 this morning and hasn't stopped yet.

Sam was so jealous of Junie going to school.

Wait for me!!!!

Kisses.

 

Such sweet brothers.

Junie is learning about Markin Luker King at school this week. He and I had a great conversation about all people being equal regardless of skin color. He thought for a second then very sincerely announced, "I will go all the way to Ethiopia and yell as loud as I can BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE SAME!!"  He also wants to make a cake on Monday to celebrate MLK's birthday. I'm so thankful for his heart.

Scott came home so I could go to the denist. (FUN)

Shoveling....

He's gone.

The whole gang is planning on sledding RIGHT after school. Don't worry, I'll take pictures;)

New Year's EVE (from Scott's camera)

I found Scoot's camera today and found these.... sooo fun. Adam made up some kind of Lego game and the kids were all addicted.

They all just humored me by looking at the camera.

 The kids couldn't get enough of each other.

Perfect.

  

48 Hours of Summer

I know this picture isn't clear but can you feel the joy?

Scott and his buddies at the park.

 Football!

Doesn't this picture look like summer?

 Macker's got game.

Swooosh!!

  Jump rope.

Limbo.

Today our friends invited us to the Brookfield zoo. She had free passes for us. How could we say no? The animals were amazing.

Macker, Shay, June and Jack.

Dolphins.

Picnic. So thankful for the fun day!

 

Sam loves the slide.

We're bracing for 4 inches of snow tomorrow....

Park in January

Please Pray

I'd like to ask you to pray for a "friend" of mine. I really like her and I've actually never met her in real life. Isn't that crazy?  Today Leanne is having her baby. Would you join me?

Playing

The weather his been unreal and we are loving every minute of it. Scotty and his buddy, Wyatt played inside for a while.

Then they realized it was pretty nice out.

So they played football until the bus arrived.

Can you see the ball?

 

It's almost spring, right?

Update

The funeral was beautiful. Scott did a great job. On the way back to Chicago we stopped by the Williams and spent the night.  Fun.