Batter Up!

Tonight was Rafe's first t-ball practice. It is hard to believe Spring is just around the corner after the snow storm we had earlier in the week! Rafe had a wonderful time and is looking forward to his next practice!!

Joke of the day!

We have a comedian in the making at our house. Rafe LOVES jokes. He enjoys hearing them and loves to make them up. Here is his joke from today:

"How did Popeye get his girlfriend? Because she met him!!"

Isn't that hilarious? When he told Cory and me this joke tonight it caught us so off guard all we could do was laugh. How cute is he? I think he gets his sense of humor from his Mommy!!!

Another trophy!!

Last night was Rafe's basketball banquet at Fuddrucker's. Rafe had been waiting on this day for a long time so he could get his trophy. Well, he wasn't disappointed! He LOVES his trophy and is so proud of it. He thought it was really cool since the arms can be moved around. Wonder how long those will stay on??!!

Rafe, I am SO proud of you for playing basketball. Mommy and Daddy had such a good time watching you run around and play each week. You deserved that special trophy!

Rafe and Coach Van

Such a happy boy!!

Rafe and his teammates

Winter (Spring??) Wonderland!!!

It FINALLY did it. It finally snowed at our house. This is the first time Rafe has ever been able to play in the snow and we have ALL taken advantage of it. We played outside last night for a little while until it started thundering. I have never heard of "thunder snow". All it took was one loud BOOM of thunder and Rafe took off for the house. He has never run so fast in this life!! Rafe must have asked us a thousand times if it was going to thunder again. We went inside and made snow ice cream instead!!

Well, today is a new day!! He woke us up at 7:00 screaming, "It snowed outside. Let's go out, get up, get up!!" We went outside at 7:00 and finally came in at 12:15 because we were all frozen. (I'm sure our neighbors enjoyed hearing our sleds this morning bright and early!!) Rafe absolutely had a ball. We made a snowman, had snowball fights (of course with boxing gloves), made snow angels and, best of all, went sledding and sledding and sledding!! He could not get enough!! I wish this day would last forever!!

Rafe all bundled up for the snow. He pretended to be Randy

from "The Christmas Story"!

Making snow ice cream

Rafe's snow angel

Just call him "Mr. Wizard"

Cory and Rafe had a "scientific" morning. First they made a volcano then they ended by making squishy bugs. Nothing like the smell of vinegar mixed with coffee in the morning!! (Please notice the lovely costumes they are both wearing!!)

Buck - The Librarian

Rafe has had this chair in this room since he was born. Buck has NEVER sat in it or even seemed to notice it until we moved. From the very first time Buck went into Rafe's new room he has started sitting in Rafe's reading chair. Rafe has now named Buck the Librarian! He scans Rafe's books before Rafe is able to read them. Can't you tell how much Buck enjoys this??!!

Valentine Cookies???

Rafe and I made very unusual Valentine's Day cookies this morning. They were not shaped like ordinary hearts. Oh no, Rafe cut his cookies out in the shape of pumpkins, bats, ghosts and dinosaurs. He is SO hung-up on Halloween!!! The main thing is they tasted great! Happy Valentine's Day!!

I'm BACK!!!

Well, I am FINALLY back on the internet. Let me just tell you it has been EXTREMELY hard to be without television, phone, DVR and, mostly, internet for THREE WEEKS. I guess it is a blessing in disguise because I had a lot more time to get things done at the house that I would have otherwise spent on the computer. However, I feel like so much has happened in the last three weeks that I was not able to share. We are slowly but surely getting settled into the new house. Rafe LOVES his green room and enjoys climbing up the brick wall around the pool and pretending to be Spiderman. I will send lots more pictures as we get everything into place. I guess you can expect to see them this time next year!

We are still here!

Hello to all of my blogger friends. Yes, we are still alive just experiencing "technical" difficulties with our internet. I am SO frustrated with Charter and have called them daily waiting on my internet to be up-and-running again. We are loving our new house and will enjoy it a lot more once all of the boxes are unpacked. When will that be??!! Anyway, just wanted to post a quick update to say I hope to be back in business next week. I will post some pictures of the house then.

Birthdays, birthdays and more birthdays!!

What an extremely busy weekend we had. We took a few breaks from packing and moving to attend THREE birthday parties this weekend. They were all A LOT of fun. Saturday night was Rafe's cousins, Nicolas and Bella's, birthday party at one of Rafe's favorite places: Chuck E Cheese! He had a ball. This one was in Asheville so they had different games and he loved every minute of it. He came away with some valuable prizes!

Yesterday morning before church we were treated to a nice surprise: SNOW! Poor Rafe, he is so desperate to play in the snow he was outside catching snowflakes in my flour sifter. It snowed pretty hard for about 30 minutes but by the time we left church it was all gone. We have our fingers crossed that the forecasters have predicted it correctly for tomorrow. Hopefully I will have LOTS more pictures of us actually getting to sled!

Yesterday afternoon we went to a birthday party at Pump It Up. This is Rafe's other favorite place to go (well, Rafe AND Cory!!) I don't know who has more fun. This party was extra special because the children got to do the rock climbing wall. Rafe and Cory raced to the top, but Rafe stopped about half-way up. I am sure he would have won though! After Pump It Up we went to Nana and Papa's house for the January family birthday party. The kids were WAY to wild for me to photograph but they had a great time running around the house. I am sure Nana and Papa crashed after 5 kids left. It is quite crazy over there!

This morning Rafe and I painted his Triceratops he got for Christmas. Of course we painted it green, but then Rafe added a few more colors to the mix. We had a lot of fun painting and I think it turned out very cute!!