Christmas 2016

As usual, the Christmas season was a busy and fun one! We made our annual trip down to Monument Circle to mail our letters to Santa, attended the tree lighting festival in Broad Ripple, enjoyed cold evenings in front of the fire and spent lots of quality time with family!

Hanging out in Broad Ripple

Fun times at the Broad Ripple tree lighting festival

There's nothing better than spending a wintery evening in front of the fireplace!

Monument Circle for the Circle of Lights

Our annual visit to the South Bend Chocolate Cafe for a treat

Mailing our letters!

Christmas Eve at my brother's house

Lots of presents to open!

Christmas morning excitement!

A few of our fave toys from Santa

My little Skye and Chase

Presents, presents and more presents!

Winter 2015

Lots of fun things going on this past winter. Here's a glimpse at some of the fun things we did...

The day after Christmas was insanely warm so we headed to a park to get some fresh air.

Pigtails!

Enjoying her new trike!

Hanging out while big brother gets a haircut.

Sleepy with Gigi

Loving the fresh air

This boy loves to swing!

Painting a birdhouse

Family walk at Holliday Park

Mommy and Oliver date at the Children's Museum

Sliding with Pawpaw

Mommy time

Our Winter Break

Over winter break, we were lucky enough to have Don home with us for almost the entire two weeks! We had a great time as a family. Indianapolis got a blizzard while we were home, too, so Oliver got his first real experience with snow! We had a fantastic time hanging around the house, playing in the snow and doing a whole lot of nothing!

Getting all bundled up to head out into the snow with Daddy

Here we go!

He really didn't know what to make of it.

He had a good time playing...for about 10 minutes. Then, he wanted to go back inside!

His new favorite activity...putting our shoes on and walking around the house :-)

Hoosier LOVED playing in the snow!

My little snow bunny

Snowpocalypse 2011

About 2 weeks ago, we got a huge ice storm here in Indianapolis. Schools were closed for 4 days, and it was difficult to get around the city. This was all good news for Hoosier because he LOVES the snow and cold weather, and luckily for him, his daddy was home to play with him outside.



He absolutely loves to roll around and play in the snow.

He spent a lot of time outside chasing frozen tennis balls and snow balls that Don threw for him.

I don't know why, but he always buries his face in the snow and ends up looking like this.

These pictures don't really do it justice, but we had almost 2 inches of ice. You could literally ice skate down the road.

After Hoosier is outside in the snow for awhile, it starts sticking to his curly fur, and he ends up looking like this.

Don't worry...we gave him a warm bath and melted all the ice with a hairdryer once he came inside.

Don also took him for a walk along the river a few days after the storm. Hoosier loves going for walks in the woods.

All in all, I enjoyed having 4 days off school, and Hoosier and I both loved having Don home with us! I guess Snowpocalypse 2011 wasn't so bad after all!

Snowiness

Indy has seen a lot of snow in the past week. We woke up Saturday morning to about 6-8 inches on the ground. That, of course, meant some serious shoveling needed to be done. As I had had a pretty rough night on Friday and didn't sleep well, I decided shoveling our (fairly) long driveway would be great therapy. It actually worked! It took me about an hour and a half. Lucky for me, Don woke up while I was toiling away (heaviest and wettest snow I have ever seen) and thought he would take some pictures for me to use on my blog (aren't I a lucky girl?). So, here I am finishing up...




Ah, isn't it pretty?

The backyard...

A different view of the backyard...

Mother Nature decided not to let up on us yet. Monday night brought a few more inches of snow so I woke up Tuesday to a...SNOW DAY (except I didn't actually wake up to it, I found out when I was about halfway to work). I turned around and enjoyed the rest of my day at home. Unfortunately, today it was back to business as usual.

Coming up: The fam is coming to visit this weekend so I will surely have a lot of pics and probably a lot to say!

Happy End of the Week!