A litte of this and that!

It has been very exciting in this household because Walter is starting to read!
Every night he has been reading phonics books to us, sometimes he gets excited and tries to guess what the words are going to say but when he takes the time he can actually put the sounds together and read the word. The only thing is now I can no longer get away with spelling out small words out loud to Jeff without Walter figuring out what they say!
Bare with me here, I took all of these pictures off of our old camera and these are all the way back from Thanksgiving. Here are the kids cousins Brady, Kirsten and Cale and

Walter taking it easy after all of that turkey and

the kids with their cousin Ariel. It was a nice Thanksgiving. So many blessings to be Thankful for!

Now on another note here, this weather has been crazy! Just a few days ago we had no snow on the ground and now we have close to two feet!

I took the kids out to do some shoveling and playing. It was fun to watch the excitement as they made pretend "train tracks" and a snow castle. I think this is going to be the first year that Rose E is going to actually enjoy playing in the snow!