Business name???

Now that I am beginning to see the light at the end of school it is time to start thinking of business names.  I am at a loss right now for a good name so...any ideas????

An update on our crazy lives...

So, I don't usually like to blog without pictures but here goes...  

Things here have been super busy and non eventful at the same time.  The girls have both been sick with never ending colds and Evan and I have been running in opposite directions for what seems like forever.  I am so ready to be done with school and to have a family life back.  I have figured out that in order for me to graduate by the end of March I will have to be at school at least 36 hours a week.  This is almost as much as a full time job but I have to cram it in to my nights and weekends.  Here is a quick rundown of my schedule these days.  Each morning Evan kisses me goodbye and I pray that the girls will stay asleep for a few more minutes. (It never happens that way!!) We then get busy going about our day.  It usually includes baths, laundry, cleaning, my shower, running errands, nap time for Saige, taking care of all the extra's like paying bills, scheduling Dr. appts., play days etc., making breakfast, lunch and starting to make dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon.  Usually by 3:30 I am working on dinner so that we can eat as a family between 4:23 and 4:31 each afternoon.  I then quickly leave for school where I live until 10 pm during which time I know Evan is equally busy getting the girls ready for bed, cleaning up after dinner (yeah right!), and then sitting down to work on his freelance work until I get home.  When I get home we both collapse in to bed and hope that the morning doesn't come too soon.  

This last month and continuing until the last of 2000 hours of school I go to school for one 12 hour day a week.  Thanks to Grandma Ehat I am able to go to school from 10 am to 10 pm on one day a week. This allows me to have my Friday's free to spend the evening with my fam.  I will also be going to school on Saturdays from 8 am to 5 pm.  

It will be worth it!!! I can do anything for a month right?

So, for all of you that faithfully check my blog each day (yeah right!) consider this warning that my blogs over the next month might be pretty boring and a little less frequent. 

More snow fun

We had so much fun playing with Heidi and the boys that we decided to take the girls sledding on Saturday.  We all got decked out in our snow clothes and played and played.  Rylie is a little dare devil and we started out going about 10 feet up the hill.  Each time she sled down the hill she wanted to go further and further up.  Saige loved it too, although I'm not sure if she loved eating the snow or sledding in it more.  Here are some of the highlights....

Snow much fun!

Yesterday we went to play with Heidi, Marcus, and Ian.  It was so much fun to play in the snow.  Mike had built a snow cave and the girls followed Heidi in to check it out.  This year has been really fun with all this snow.  Each time Saige fell down she wasn't able to get back up.  It was pretty fun to watch the kids play.  Thanks to Heidi for a fun afternoon!!!

Saige's Birthday

Our little Saige turned 2 on the 29th of January.  I can't believe she is getting so grown up.  We had a family birthday party for her on Friday the 1st.  We had a lot of fun and she loved all of the attention.  Here are some pics...

Why are some people so inconsiderate????

This last fall we spent 4 very stressful, rushed, and otherwise miserable days laying sod in our front yard.  The task was fairly easy and would have been enjoyable had the weather cooperated. We were fortunate enough to be given enough free sod to do our front yard.  This required that we get the yard ready and lay the sod within a short time frame.  We decided that since we had removed all the previous lawn and the sprinklers were exposed that we should fix them and replace all of the sprinkler heads.  I think our neighbors must have thought we were nuts as they watched us digging up sprinkler heads in the pouring down rain and high wind.  We finally managed to get them fixed and proceeded to levelling the ground, this was not an easy task given the fact that we were attempting to level wet, sticky, clay like mud.  This too was done in the rain and wind.  After the ground was leveled it was time to lay the sod.  Due to weather and schedules the sod had a little too much time on the pallet.  We layed sod that appeared to be dead...again in the rain and wind.  Now, after all of this we began fertilizing and watering in hopes that the grass would come back and we would have a nice yard this spring.  The grass did come back and it began to be a beautiful green lawn.  We looked forward to the new spring grass when the snow melts.  Until...

The other day we look outside to find that someone felt the urge to drive their truck into our snow covered yard and spin their tires in an effort to get out.  Our yard now has two large ruts with mud slung across the yard.  At first we thought, well maybe it didn't damage the lawn or the sprinklers.  But, I'm afraid that the obvious mud pulled up from below the snow is a sign that the lawn is damaged.  To what extent we don't know as the snow is falling again and we won't know until it melts.  Now, why would someone do this????  Why are some people so inconsiderate???  This makes me so damn mad and I guess I get to vent on you since I don't know who was the culprit (although I have my suspicions.)

Oh, and a side note...this happened not long after the snowman was built and although it had begun to melt and fall apart thanks to the truck the snowman was finished off!!!

After what seemed like 5 hours of getting ready in our layers of clothes, coats, hats, gloves and scarfs we headed outside to enjoys todays snowfall.  We have about a foot of snow in our front yard and we couldn't let that go to waste.  Rylie and Saige and I went out to build a snowman.  Lets just say that our snowman ended up looking pretty pathetic.  We did have fun making snow angels and Saige enjoyed eating the snow (none of it was yellow.)  We also made a big pile of snow from the driveway and Rylie loves sledding down it.  Saige got really cold and tired so we came in for soup and sandwiches.  Its been a fun morning.  We will go out later to take pics of our "snowman."