Winter is back .....

And I was almost beginning to believe it was spring, (but only a smidgen)!! The buds are starting to appear on the shrubs, the sun was shining with bright blue skies, wildlife coming out of hibernation then.... SNOW!! For most of last week we had snow and lots of it, I suppose it was just making up for the lack of what we'd had. A good one and a half feet of snow fell altogether in just a few days and this meant lots of plowing for Craig and the 2nd 'Snow Day' of the season for the boys on Friday. They had lots of fun playing out all day building an igloo. Which has totally collapsed now as it hasn't been cold and the weekend temperatures reached a whopping 5 degrees :)
...... After all my complaining about not having much of a winter I am now ready for the snow to melt and wishing for spring.

Well I can't believe it is the 1st of March today..... Where is time going!
We have had a few Birthday's in February, including mine and a good one it was too! Ruth, Stu & boys came over for my birthday weekend and helped (as always) with preparing for the 'Party' so thank you for that. Craig had decided to throw a party... mainly as a house warming for people from his work place but we incorporated both our birthday's in there too. Not everyone came that should have done and it was also missing all our friends back in England but I still enjoyed it and was still standing at the end of the night :) Maybe because Sharon wasn't pouring the triple B&C'S!!

The boy's have been busy, they went on a skiing trip with the school a few weeks back and also went ice skating with the school... they really enjoyed both events but it wasn't without injury! Brad decided that it might be good to fall without putting his hands out to save him! Smack on the floor he fell (ice skating).... which resulted in a broken front tooth. Thank goodness we have insurance that is all I can say. We have a skating arena in the village and every Sunday it is free public skating. We took the boys this weekend, Michael didn't go on much and as his skates fit me I had a try. I haven't been skating for a good 15 years or so and was a little rusty at first.... Fun though! It brought back memories of when I used to go with Karen and Sharon. Good times :)

I was hoping to post something a couple of weeks back now but to be totally honest I really didn't feel like doing anything so I decided that I would do some cooking & baking.... and I did lots of it too! It gives me a little bit of an easier few weeks as I now have enough home cooked meals in the freezer to last a few weeks which equals more ME time :)
Other than that life is just running along just fine and not much else going on right now.
I do have lots of photo's to share with you and hope to get them organised later but for now I will leave you with this quick scrap page that I threw together yesterday.... not my favourite but I promised myself that I would try and do some new pages this year, I used a template from designer digitals and the kit from here.



I have a few things on my agenda for today so I will sign off now but hope to post some pictures at a later date :)