Weird Home Improvement projects

We've been in a home-improvement frenzy here since last year. Remodeling the basement/garage, kitchen, adding a bathroom, an in-ground pool... yikes! It feels like there is always something going on.
I'm not exactly sure what home improvement project William is working on.... but these are sure great blackmail pictures for when he grows up :)

Toast

I think of my grandpa, William Rockot every time I butter my toast. I remember so many breakfasts at my grandparents house with REAL butter and my grandpa had a real talent for buttering my Italian bread toast just right. It's funny the things that remind us of the people we love and miss

Blessings

Delaney bore her testimony at church today and I am so very proud of her. What an amazing young woman she is becoming...

Pizza party

I came home yesterday to a chicken pizza party

We found some pizza in the basement fridge too old for us to eat. Jonathan threw it outside for garbage. The chickens heard "Come and Get It!"

Road Runner, our Rooster had to check out the pizza before the hens could partake. I'm guessing they voted him the royal taste tester in case things were poisoned 

Once he ate and didn't die, it was a pizza feeding frenzy 

it's the perfect type of snow...

If we count our blessings, we can be thankful for the wet heavy now that, even though it pulled down our power line, is the perfect snow-fort-making snow!
So after Duquesne Light was here to fix the power most of the kids headed out to try out the new brick-makers that Daddy bought for them a few weeks ago

Daddy told them the best place to build--over near the camper

Getting ready for battle by building their forts - 20 paces apart

Ninja!

too beautiful to be a Ninja... but just as deadly!

Lots of holes to peek through and see his target...

I love that smile of hers!

Oh boy!

Putting the finishing touches on for big brother

This is what little brothers do... at least she accepts it...

Biggest snowball and biggest smile! That's one happy boy!

3 pieces of my heart...the other piece is inside making me some artwork

I can never resist this face...

Winter Wonderland

I took my phone to bed with me last night. Something I almost never do. But something told me that the kids would have school delays today and I wanted to know early and not have to leave the warm, comfort of my bed to check. At 6:15 I was rewarded with a 2 hour delay. Back to sleep. By 7:24 (by when I was, in fact, up at at 'em) we were rewarded with school cancelled. My husband pulled a fast one on Addison and told her that if she helped him clean her room today he would let her stay home all day. Tricky!

We were also rewarded with the power line ripped out of our house from the ice storm. Thank God we have a whole-house generator or I may not have had the feeling of peace to go outside and capture on of the real blessings of the day... the winter wonderland that was right outside our door.

The blessings keep coming... a nice breakfast together and fresh bread baking in the oven. (And it actually rose this time! hallelujah!) I foresee some snuggly movie time in my future...

Now THIS is how you eat Waffles....

"No fork for me, Mumma... I don't need one. Just more whipped cream..."

sometimes I don't know how this kid stays alive because he eats so little...

then there are other days like today where he demolished a whole waffle with strawberries and extra, extra, extra whipped cream and then ate TWO PJ&Js for lunch and is now currently getting ice cream with Daddy at Mim's

tomorrow I'm betting he eats a ring pop sucker. and that's it.