Question?

What do you get when you mix 50 mile per hour winds for 2 days with living in a high desert?

Tumbleweeds that can take over!!

This is a housing unit on base just down the road from us. Roads were closed! And giant bulldozers are out clearing the roads of tumbleweeds. We just stayed inside. To bad it happened during Spring Break week!
Isn't March supposed to go out like a lamb?
:-)

Homeschooling Hair Line

What better way to spend a spring break afternoon!?!? A HAIR LINE! :-) I looked out the back window this afternoon and this is what I saw. Naturally, I HAD to take a picture. Two of the new girls are our new friends who moved in 2 houses down this week from Alaska. (Their other 2 sisters were on the swing set). And yes, they are another homeschool family. That makes 26 homeschooled children in our neighborhood.
Notice the GREEN grass! Still no leaves, but now there are leaf buds!!
Storm coming in tomorrow. Snow expected. :-(
Freezing temps again.
It is just CRUEL to get us all used to being outside and then force us in again.
Hopefully, this will be the LAST cold front!!
But remember last year, it snowed all day on Easter!!!!!!!
Crazy crazy Idaho.

Sweet Buddies

Even the little ones are thankful for the sunshine!

Kaebrie and Lauren are still small enough to BOTH fit inside their favorite car. Hearing their giggles was so cute!

I just finished tucking 4 exhausted kids into bed. They all have pink cheeks from SUN EXPOSURE!!! How wonderful is that?!?!?!?! :-)

JUMPING FOR JOY!!!! SPRING IS HERE!!!!

Just 10 days ago we were shoveling snow and wearing three layers just to get to the driveway. Now, afternoons are reaching the 60's!! (Though the mornings are still in the freezing 20's). The kids can leave the house and go play outside! I honestly do not know who is more excited, mommy or the kids! Because after a VERY long winter with 4 kids in 1100 square feet all day, we were ALL ready to explode! It is still very cool in the mornings, but by 3:00 in the afternoon when all the other kids get home from school, it is PERFECT!

I have mentioned before, that the girls love to play horses. You can hear them "whinny-ing" to each other, see them ride each other; they are either playing with plastic horses or pretending to be horses. Sam built them some "horse jumps" in the backyard and Kaitlynn (aka Comanche) and Anna Brooke (aka Belle) had a blast jumping and jumping and jumping. And they do not "run", they gallop!!

The audience was distracted by Christopher and his enjoyment of the first popsicle of the season. :-)

Still not ONE leaf on any of the trees, and not even one leaf BUD yet, but there are green sprigs coming up in the grass, so hopefully it will be soon!!




Here is Kaebrie, who popped her cute face up in front of the camera. Poor thing, she tried to jump, but she is just to tiny right now!

Ba-la-la Kaebrie

We haven't had a picture of Kaebrie in awhile, so here she is with her banana (ba-la-la) sticker on her face! Sam said when he was growing up, he wore his banana stickers all the time. JuJu, this picture is for you!!!!!

In like a lion.......

All the girls were playing horses (as usual) in the snow. When they started playing, they did have hats on! I guess they decided that horses don't wear hats!

Well, the old saying for March sure was true today. It snowed ALL DAY!

Here are the boys getting ready to play this afternoon. What happens when Tiff forgets to put his bike under the overhang!

How fun is eating snowflakes?
The forecast this weekend is sunny and in the 50's. We will see!

It was fun to watch it all day, though I had to go to town today and I do NOT like driving in it!

The kids sure do enjoy it though!