Grammy Comes to Visit!

One of my very favorite times here in Colorado is when my mom comes to visit! She came for a week in the middle of February, and we had a wonderful time! I don't have very many pictures of her visit, but that's only because we were INCREDIBLY busy while she was here!

We cooked, sewed, shopped, crocheted, cooked some more, sewed some more, ran the kids everywhere they needed to go, cooked yet again, and sewed even more... thrown in there were some times to tend to the little guy... affectionately called the little monster.

One of my favorite things we did together was MAKE SOAP! Mom has done this before, and I have SEEN it done before, but this was my first attempt in my own kitchen. I think we did fairly well - learned a couple things along the way - but hopefully in a couple more weeks, we'll have a nice bounty of cured and ready-to-use homemade soap!

(We didn't intend to make those soap "balls"... that was due to one of those "things" we learned along the way.)

We were all (okay, mostly ME) sad to see her go, but the GOOD NEWS is that we have booked a cruise in May and Mom & Dad are going to go WITH US!! I am SOOOOOO excited!

Have a great week, everyone...
Michele

Trains, Trains, Trains!

One of Maddox's very favorite things is trains. So we have taken a couple of trips to the local train museum down in Golden. Oh, how he loves it there! ...but then, so do all the other boys in my life.




Here they are in front of the big snow blower!

Dad, I took this last picture for you... we get to go inside the roundhouse where they work on restoring all these old engines. It was so cool, and I know you'd probably love to tinker around in there!

Well, Mom is here with us this week, so we're going to be busy cooking, sewing, shopping, and just hanging out! ...and there probably won't be any blogging going on. :)

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!
Michele

Unicycling!

The guys have been working a long time on mastering their unicycles - and, by George, I think they've got it!

One wheel... three wheels... what's the difference?!

 And yes, Momma gave it a try, but only made it a whopping 3 feet.