This pretty much sums up winter in the Midwest.

We hear so many complaints about winter. By January, everyone (including myself) is tired of the snow, ice and fridgid temperatures. But if you really look hard-there are some beautiful parts of winter....

Now when's spring!?

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Season Greetings!

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The girls are sooo excited for Christmas! There is a blizzard in the forecast for us on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...so it looks as though we might be spending a quiet little Christmas at home. Hope the troops don't get too restless! (Or me, for that matter!) Happy Holidays!

Ariel and Cleopatra...

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My two youngest dressed up for Halloween. It seems at our house the "anticipation" of Halloween is more fun than the actual day. After all that work getting ready, we only trick-or-treated for about half an hour. It was freezing, so that didn't help anything!

Fall is in the air...finally

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It's been such a gloomy fall, but the last few days have been so beautiful out. I hope they continue!

Halloween

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We had a fun-filled Halloween. We watched the Iowa Hawkeye's win another football game, carved pumpkins and trick-or-treated. What a day! Go HAWKS!!!

We have a new speller!

In Kindergarten Kiara is learning to read through the Jolly Phonics program. They learn different sounds with actions and songs and then work on sounding the words out. One added benefit of the program is they learn to be pretty good spellers right off the bat. At breakfast this morning, Kiara wrote, "Ex marx the spot." Oh, so cute, and pretty close, too!

Dead End Road

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