February is here!

Steve has been working hard to rearrange all of our back up drives etc resulting in me being able to download pictures once again!! In the last weeks, we have had many huge snowfalls. Sometimes it is so cold that we have to stay inside and other days we play outside for hours. All of the kids like to be outside. This includes the furry boy Jasper who likes to be included in all the fun. Matthew likes to jump off the deck (literally!!) into the huge snow drifts below. He also likes to climb the trees in our yard. Ben went to a party where he got the scorpion drawn on his face!! Cool dude. He also helped model the high snow banks after our third snow storm in a row... the banks are even higher since that day!! Thomas likes to wear his back pack everywhere and play his guitar whenever he can. Samuel is taking 5 or 6 steps at a time now and likes to be in the middle of all the action. Drew came to visit one day and after being outside for a couple hours, the boys came in to draw "themselves " as monsters. Ben is a half human and half spider, Matt is a vampire with a spider's spinner and snowshoe feet for the deep snow while Drew is a dinosaur.

The Jack Frost Festival was this weekend and unfortunately Ben had a fever when he came home from school on Friday so he missed the entire day. Mama took Tom and Matt to see all of the snow sculptures, the ice slides, the shrek show, the swimming pool, horse drawn sleigh rides, the indoor activities etc etc. We were all pretty tired at the end of the day that started at 9 and ended at almost 5 pm. Papa and Ben stayed home with Sam to watch movies and they had a few treats of their own!! Ben is feeling better today so he is excited for Valentine's Day at school tomorrow!! Hope everyone else is having fun too. The MacNeills

( PS. Matt lost his first front tooth last thursday night!! )