play

Finally, the snow is receding and the pavement is reappearing! Out come the riding toys.

Kitchen in progress

I just love this room - hard to capture it in a picture, but this is the sitting room outside our bedroom, with lots of cozy nooks for odds and ends.

Directly ahead will be our breakfast bar.

Our microwave, warming drawer and coffee station will be next to that big hole on the left for the fridge

Kitchen sink will be under the window

Movin' right along

Here is a view of the front of our house - the front clapboards have all been nailed on, trim mostly done, and is now ready for paint...as soon as the weather cooperates

Our house is really beginning to come together. Duane and Ryan installed our kitchen cabinetry this past week, and I was amazed at how all of a sudden, this place felt like home.

My happy boys

We can't seem to keep Logan out of the laundry basket lately, which can be trecherous considering the amounts of laundry we produce...

The aftermath of Logan's first time with yogurt on his own...

Early last week Maine received mounds of snow - we were closed to 20 inches...never ceases to impress me.

Brody in his new snow-tunnel-igloo thingee.

Sledding

Yesterday Duane dug our snowmobile out of the snowbank - the first time we have seen it in about years. After hours of struggling with the sled, she finally started up...but wouldn't run. Brody was just thrilled to be with Dad.

So he settled for an old-fashioned sled ride.

Our furry barnyard pals, Pony (still haven't gotten around to naming the poor guy) and Domino

Logan has his first pair of snow boots - we can't keep him out of the snow, so a shopping we did go - and found the perfect little pair.

Catch of the day

We spent a little time Saturday taking Brody ice fishing for the first time. There was a local even for kids on a nearby lake, and while the windchills were arctic, we hung in for a solid half hour.

Fortunately, it wasn't long before the flag flew up, and Dad helped Brody reel in the big one.

Brody was thrilled to have caught a fish with his Dad.

A nice sized pickerel...not good eating, though, so we sent him back home through the hole in the ice.

Winter Blanket

A heavy snowfall is so beautiful...especially if you don't have to plow or shovel too much.

Our snowman over more snow, and snowman #2, the casualty of our puppy.

Her royal heiness, Maggie.

Snowman

We are officially under a new blanket of snow...in fact, it is still snowing outside. Logan absolutely LOVES snow. After falling a zillion times (it's not easy to trek in a foot of snow on wobbly little feet) he was still focused on walking back and forth along the garage. Yes, we did have mittens, Mom...3 sets.

Finally, I am no longer a failure as a Yankee mom. We finally made a respectable snowman, rolling balls and everything.

And Maggie, our puppy, found the mittens most desirable.

We made a second snowman a few hours later, with more inches of snow arriving, masking Snowman# 1....but the partnership was never to be...the puppy bodyslammed the second snowman for the carrot nose....he is now in pieces on the snowbank.

Merry snowmen.

Logan's Weilding a Spoon!

So this is the first time I have actively given Logan a spoon for feeding himself, and he is a natural! But I'm not ready tounleash him with yogurt...we'll still with scrabled eggs for now.

dinnah table pics

Sweets for my sweets on Valentine'sDay

Breakfast grins

Can anyone name that jelly?

Time Outs

The best disciplinary rule for the moment we have found for our 3 year old is time outs, which he has realized he can impose on his parents when he deems them naughty....here is Dad in his timeout, doing his best impression of Brody in a timeout ( a little confusing, I know, but hilarious at the time)

more house pics II

Our cozy library

































Guest bathroom








the breezeway between house and garage

Our Kitchen, with the breakfast bar impeding some of the right of the picture