A beautiful day

The hose that runs into the back yard from the continuously running pump in the basement :(

Today was a weird day. About 4 pm it was 64 degrees out, yet the girls are STILL wearing snowboots! After 4 days of rain, we still have snow. And what is not snow is MUD! Lina decided to play in hte snow, while Bell took the muddy swingset route today.

Ballet and drawing..........

The girls doing their "bar" work using chairs.

Lina gave up, but Bell continues on, she loves the Ballet DVD!!

And then on to artowrk in the kitchen. Notice the line down the center so they don't fight about drawing on each others pictures. Lina loves to draw people, but it is so funny becasue she makes huge circles for eyes that take up the whole face :)

SNOW

The next few days are forcast for rain (which will hopefully wash away the snow, but means lots of indoor time!!). So today we put on our snowsuits and went to the park for 2 hours :) We had the whole park to ourselves!

Lina and Bell playing horse on the swings.

Sisters :)

"Fishing" with willow branches down by the stream.

Bell taking a rest.

Our smiley girls on the tire swing.

ledding after the first big snow two weeks ago..........

Bell pulling Lina.

Bell and Chyenne.

Austin and Lina.

It is great to have teenagers who can run up and down the hill again, and again with the little ones!!!

Lina gave up sledding and just sat eating snow :)

It finally has a home....................

TOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!

We were playing chalk in the driveway yesterday. The weather was beautiful, the yard is still full of snow and mommy had to go put back up the mailbox the plows knocked down!!
We made a sign for daddy.........

Then Bell drew a picture of daddy next to it, and INSISTED it be anatomically correct.........

But mommy, I HAVE to draw a penis. I tried to say daddy was wearing clothes, but that did not go over.

TOO FUNNY!!!!!

No wonder he has a BIG smile on his face :)

Every kid does it once.............

OK, as a disclaimer, Grandma Tuscano, you are NOT going to want to look at these pictures!!

The little kids scissors, the ones that barely cut paper............they cut hair GREAT apparently!

Daddy trimmed the girls hair yesterday and apparently today Isabella decided to go shorter! (Bad pics, from the phone). She had a big smile when Austin and Chy caught her and said "I am cutting my hair!".

Which prompted her first visit to the salon, because there was no way I could fix it! The right side and back was cut almost to her neck!

Well she had fun and got a lollipop - although she did cry on the way home becasue she did not want "everyone" to be mad at her!

Her pixi cut is cute on her, but it is going to take FOREVER to grow out!!