Camping Trip

We've been planning a camping trip for 2 months now... as an "end of the school year/beginning of summer" trip... we love camping, can't get enough of it! I just checked the weather forecast and it's going to be wet, wet, wet.... do we trust the weather forecast or do we take our chances... we have really been looking forward to this! Darn weather!

St Patricks Day is just around the corner...

This might seem cheesy to some, but since my marriage anniversary is on St. Patrick's day (lucky #13 this year) I thought I'd borrow this from my cousin and get into the very odd holiday spirit... My Leprechaun Name Is:

Tiny Greentoes

What's" Your Leprechaun Name?

(your name will be different every time you do it, so if you are like me you will keep doing it until something makes you laugh)

Snow Fort Fun!

A work of art! This has to be the best snow fort the Connors Family has been part of! The neighborhood really did a great job on this and it's still standing!

SNOW!!!!

Ammon Napping while his siblings play in the fresh snow...

My idea of snow shoes... kinda drafty!
Noah and his pink cheeks really loving the snow and the fort!
Faith adding to the huge fort!
Hailey checking out the outside of the fort! Our Neighbors were over for some snow fun!

So the weather man said 6-7 inches.... well that's what I shovelled at 7:30 this morning... and went down again around 1:00 pm this afternoon and took care of another 4-5... and it was still snowing when I came in... I poured lots of salt on the driveway and walk ways... hopefully that will do the trick!

I ask again... WHERE IS SPRING???????

Easter Help

Yikes, I know Valentines day was just yesterday but I've been starting to look ahead to next month.. Easter is early this year, and I'm determined to do something besides CANDY this year... we've made it a tradition to put coins and a few $1 bills in the eggs instead of all candy but still I really want to come up with something unique and fun for our Egg hunt this year. If you have any suggestions please share!!! It's hard to balance holidays with family tradtions... religious meanings and feel like I've suceeded. We do our Egg hunt on Saturday because growing up my mother refused to mix the "fun" Easter celebrations with the "true" easter celebrations so even though the "easter bunny" visited all of our Mormon neighbors on Sunday, he always came to our home on Friday night... looking back what a wonderful lesson this has taught me, and now with my own family I've continued it as well. The world is so full of "stuff" that I feel the need to seperate the 2, the holiday from the true meaning of the season... we do the same thing if Christmas falls on Sunday, Santa visits Friday night that year. I think for me it's been important to teach my children the difference between what the world celebrates and what we are truly celebrating during this very special holidays.