Oh my, what a wonderful, warm, sunshiney weekend. It was actually 45 degrees on Saturday here in Northern Michigan, which is usually unheard of. I keep trying to remind myself that it can't
really be spring yet, that it almost certainly will snow again before spring is actually here to stay. But my spring loving self just keeps hoping that maybe, just
maybe winter is over. I mean, look, my crocuses are popping up and surely those crazy things know what their doing. They wouldn't come up just to tease me.... would they?!?
We celebrated the beginning of spring with the first bonfire of the year. This is becoming something of a tradition, which I just love, as far as I'm concerned the more traditions the better! We went out to Mimi and Poppa's because traditions are better with grandparents and that's where the sledding/snowboarding hill is. Mimi still loves sledding. Drew and Ian will go down a few times, especially if they can convince her to "do a double-decker belly whopper." Which means Mimi lays down on the sled on her belly, one of the boys lays down on her back and
then they go down the hill face first. It's gotten a lot harder to convince her this winter now that they weigh about 43 lbs each. They did them all the time last winter and the winter before that she'd even do triple-decker belly whoppers, with
both boys laying on her, brave woman. Now that they are good on their snowboards, though, they'd rather do that then sled.
Ian (above) and Drew (below) both liked watching the snowboarders in the Olympics this year. Before the Olympics started most of the snowboarders actually came to our town and stayed at the ski resort here to practice. Majorly big doings for this little town. Apparently we have the biggest half-pipe east of the Mississippi. Who knew!?! Drew and Ian got to go watch them practice one day and thought it was the coolest thing ever. It really made them practice on their boards more. They also discovered, while watching the Olympics that "real snowboarders wear goggles." They were pretty disappointed that we didn't have any. But when we got out the play tools last week they found their safety goggles in the bin and (note pictures) those work just fine. I love it when they come up with their own (free!) solutions to these kind of problems.
Of course, Ian (below) had to climb a tree to finish off the day. Drew ended up climbing it too but, my camera ate all three sets of batteries I'd brought with me before I could get a picture of him in the tree. Speaking of the camera, pay no attention to the dates on the pictures, obviously the camera had some sort of stroke.
Oh my, what a wonderful, warm, sunshiney weekend. It was actually 45 degrees on Saturday here in Northern Michigan, which is usually unheard of. I keep trying to remind myself that it can't really be spring yet, that it almost certainly will snow again before spring is actually here to stay. But my spring loving self just keeps hoping that maybe, just maybe winter is over. I mean, look, my crocuses are popping up and surely those crazy things know what their doing. They wouldn't come up just to tease me.... would they?!?
We celebrated the beginning of spring with the first bonfire of the year. This is becoming something of a tradition, which I just love, as far as I'm concerned the more traditions the better! We went out to Mimi and Poppa's because traditions are better with grandparents and that's where the sledding/snowboarding hill is. Mimi still loves sledding. Drew and Ian will go down a few times, especially if they can convince her to "do a double-decker belly whopper." Which means Mimi lays down on the sled on her belly, one of the boys lays down on her back and then they go down the hill face first. It's gotten a lot harder to convince her this winter now that they weigh about 43 lbs each. They did them all the time last winter and the winter before that she'd even do triple-decker belly whoppers, with both boys laying on her, brave woman. Now that they are good on their snowboards, though, they'd rather do that then sled. 
Ian (above) and Drew (below) both liked watching the snowboarders in the Olympics this year. Before the Olympics started most of the snowboarders actually came to our town and stayed at the ski resort here to practice. Majorly big doings for this little town. Apparently we have the biggest half-pipe east of the Mississippi. Who knew!?! Drew and Ian got to go watch them practice one day and thought it was the coolest thing ever. It really made them practice on their boards more. They also discovered, while watching the Olympics that "real snowboarders wear goggles." They were pretty disappointed that we didn't have any. But when we got out the play tools last week they found their safety goggles in the bin and (note pictures) those work just fine. I love it when they come up with their own (free!) solutions to these kind of problems.
Of course, Ian (below) had to climb a tree to finish off the day. Drew ended up climbing it too but, my camera ate all three sets of batteries I'd brought with me before I could get a picture of him in the tree. Speaking of the camera, pay no attention to the dates on the pictures, obviously the camera had some sort of stroke. 
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Jealous that you're spying crocuses AND that you can drive to the grandparents house!
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