Kati is 6 years old!

Happy Birthday to Kati - and for her chocolate sheet cake some surprise candles. She had a blast trying to blow them out and we had a great time cheering her on.

Kati was in the Talent Show too!

As I left the auditorium no less than 5 different people, some I didn't even really know, stopped to say - "ohhh that Kati, you're gonna be in so much trouble!" I don't know if trouble is the word I'd use to describe Kati (although she does enjoy getting in to a little scrape every now and then)

Just about each nite, after I tuck them in, and in ode to a movie they'll probably never see, but a book they might read someday.  I tell them they are:

Beautiful

Powerful

Smart

Strong

The Uncomfortable Totem Pole

Olivia wrote a skit for the Stillwater Elementary talent show this year to celebrate her Native American studies.

Skiing in March

Well the weather was amazing, and there was even a foot or so of new cascade concrete to bust through. All in all the girls had a wonderful time and so did Dad!

Valentine Fondue

How much fun can you have with a bowl of molten chocolate? Plenty. We continued a Valentine tradition last week by inviting our neighbors Mat & Courtney over for a bucket of chocolate! Audra had out all the fixin's, pretzels, strawberries, bananas, big chunks pound cake, graham crackers and even a few macadamia nuts(just to see if you'd had too much wine and couldn't get them on the fork!) but the winner and still champion of chocolate dipping - Aud's home made little coconut cookies(I can't remember the name right now) those things were amazing!

How Much Snow?

These pictures were taken around Christmas - the pics of Lucy in the garden (yes that's the garden) were taken on Christmas Day. We had a ton of snow for these parts - some of our friends that have grown up here mentioned it was the most snow they'd seen in their lives, others said the snows from 1964 were higher. We've been here since 1999, and it was certainly the most snow we've had here at the house.

What happens when the snow melts?  Well - that's the subject of the last few pics.