jeans

the little princess' very first day wearing jeans - isn't she so sweet?

more snow

Yeah, I thought last week's snow was gonna be it for the year too! But since we got some more this week, we headed over to Uncle Ben's house for a little nicer backdrop and took some more pictures! 

brothers

These were just too cute not to share - Colm decided he didn't really want to walk any further in the "deep" snow!

Caeden Sean

Colm Michael

Which one?

Which one of these 4 pictures do you like best.......... to go with the 2 at the bottom?

 

(you know, someday when I find a really cool frame with 4 slots and I find a nice "spring" somewhere to photograph them at...... and then hang on a wall!)

#1

#2

#3

#4

these are the other two....

"fall"

(summer)

Oh, you want to know which one I like best? Well, I really couldn't decide. I like #4 best, except I wish I had put their matching hats on them. I like the matching hats in the first 2, but don't like the "busy skyline", or the little bits of green grass (Colm didn't want to walk out on the snow by himself there, I don't know why - it was knee deep on me.....!) 

So, give me your opinions!

little pink hoodie

Alannah was just too cute in this outfit............

Da's sure gonna be surprised when he goes to eat his lunch!

Happy girl helping Mama make dinner

Our long weekend - boring or exciting..............

it snowed pretty much from Thursday evening till Saturday night, we got drifts over 4 feet deep (of course there are other areas that are bare!)............. Colm was sick most of the weekend too, some kind of tummy flu I think............ thankfully he seems to be feeling better today............. Kieran got to come home early Thursday and didn't work (out of the house anyway) again till this morning........... he kept busy working on some bids for upcoming jobs............. we didn't go anywhere till Sunday afternoon when we realized that there was no snow in town at all and did a couple errands. Seriously, you who live in town, you should see the drifts out here! The "big" snow plow with the V front came thru and there are shoulders of snow well over 4 feet high off the road......... my great fun this weekend was sorting thru Alannah's clothes and putting the rest of the 0-3 and 3 month clothes away and getting out the next batch of 3-6 month and slightly larger then what she needs out and in her drawers.............. I have great plans this week to get the rest of the closets sorted, organized and de-cluttered.......... we'll see how the week goes!

Easter Morning

Alannah playing with Da

Holding grandpa's Starbucks cup and trying not to let us see she has her thumb in her mouth!

Boys playing that Colm is a baby is in a stroller..... the stick in his mouth is his pacifier :-)

Good Friday

Last night, Auntie Em and I took the boys to the Passion Play in Denver.  It was wonderful, very well done and I would highly recommend it. (If you want to go this year, they still have a performance tonight and tomorrow afternoon, check their website for details).

Anyway, Alannah nursed and slept thru most of it, Colm sat in Emily's lap perfectly quiet and still but not sleeping and Caeden stood on his chair and watched the whole thing. 

Caeden had several things to say about what he was seeing and comprehending - it's been fun this year seeing what concepts and truths he has been grasping and beginning to understand the whole story. 

In the Garden scene the angel came and ministered to Jesus and then later when the soldiers were whipping Jesus Caeden asked/told me "that angel gave Jesus strength to be strong, why isn't he fighting those soldiers?" I explained that Jesus gave his life willing and that He allowed the soldiers to whip Him and put Him on the cross and that took great strength. 

Later, after Jesus died on the cross and they were placing him in the grave Caeden turned to me and said, "Their Jesus might be dead but MY Jesus is alive" - I told him to keep watching and "their Jesus" was the same as his and he would come back to life. 

After the performance was finished Caeden got to talk to a couple soldiers and the man that played Nicodemus and tell them he enjoyed the show.  Though it made for a long evening, I am glad we got to go up. 

Did you know?

I heard this last night listening to MacArthur on Grace to You. I thought it was interesting.......

The place where Jesus was crucified was known as "the Skull" or Golgotha - in Aramaic or Hebrew and in Latin it would be called Calvaria - or Calvary......... did you know this was where we got the word Calvary? 

You can listen to the whole message here

Snow Days and Palm Sunday

And only in Colorado would you post those 2 subjects TOGETHER! 

(actually for those of you out of state, Sunday was nice, Saturday and several days last week were snowy.......... but we have another chance for snow Thursday and then over the weekend)

Sorry, it is a bit blurry........... they kept waving their palm branches around :-)

These are pictures of Caeden's "steak" - we grilled last weekend and Caeden cooked his steaks on a patio chair and flipped it with his shovel, sprinkled seasoning on it with the gravel and then brought it in to me to put on a plate. 

We even got enough snow to make a snowman!

the boys posing for pictures

cousins

Caeden and Sam...........aren't they so sweet?