five rings

Blue, yellow, black, green and red. Those colors and the infamous dah, dah....da dah dah, dah dah. You get the point. The Winter Olympics are here and it is sure empowering to see these incredible athletes.

It seems that snow has been falling every day here. Which means more shoveling, more ice-thawing and cold walks with Gage. We did end up breaking down and buying a snow rake on Saturday. It took a long trip to Forest Lake to get it from Northern Tool, but well worth it. We also lucked out at Northern Tool's sample sale on Thursday night. Some great outdoor summer equipment which will come in handy during yard work in a few months.

Friday we went old school and celebrated Valentine's Day at Perkins. It was a happy medium between a fancy restaurant for us and a fast food place for Ella. As always, for a cheap price, it was delicious. Uncle Hugh also stopped by on Friday night after a business trip to NYC for his new job.

Saturday after a bit of shopping, we hit up Gma and Gpa Springer's for a dinner of ribs with Chas, Rose and Bev. As always, it was fantastic, and Ella was a ham-bone. More reading and scrapbooking was done on Saturday by Dawn and I. Here is a quick sneak peek of her scrapbooked pages - she only has three projects going at once! (Note from Dawn!: I started with Ella's First Year book, then moved on to Our Wedding Memories, then came the Honeymoon book. Between scrapbooking and some pending sewing projects, I'm very busy once Ella goes to bed! More to come on this later. Stay tuned to see how they turn out!)

Ella has turned a new leaf in our house. She is bigger, badder, and more daring. Its funny, when we woke up on Sunday morning, we both said that she looked like such a big girl now. And it was more evident when Theresa at daycare said the same thing on Monday morning. I know, I know, I already visited the dealership and her car will be delivered on time for her 16th. Its just around the corner. Seriously though, she is telling us more stories, heading to her bedroom when its time for bed and rocking her dolls to sleep. So precious!

Song: Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter

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