It's Back...

     Well it's not spring yet and winter made yet another appearance today. We went from temperatures in the low to mid 50's Monday and Tuesday to winter weather today. The morning started off ok but the temperature steadily declined and the rain turned to snow and sleet. By time I left work at 1:45 everything was icy. I had to scraped a layer of ice off of my car and yank on the doors pretty hard since they were nearly frozen shut.

What it looked like out the window at 10am

     While I was getting ready to leave work I could feel the start of a migraine coming on - you know the pressure around your eyes and the feeling that you're just not seeing things right. While the kids napped and my migraine crept up on me I unloaded and refilled lunch boxes, started dinner and laid on the couch. When Froggie woke up I tried to be entertaining but it was getting tough so I took some ibuprofen and brewed myself a cup of coffee. By this time Big Brother was up and wanted to watch My Little Pony. My grand idea was to set my laptop up outside the mesh of the pack n play in the living room and let the kids play and watch in there while I let the medicine and caffeine take effect. After an episode we sat down for dinner and the migraine was almost gone! I'm so glad that I get them sporadically and that they typically only last a couple hours from start to finish.

They were so good about this set up

Welcome Back to the Wild

     Today was opening day of our local zoo! It's nice that the zoo is back open because it gives us another thing to add to our list of activities to do and it gets us back outside. It's been really cold again lately (isn't is supposed to be warming up?) and Hubby said that it was going to be too cold to go to opening day. I decided that it was warmer than it has been and we've been coped up too long so we packed extra blankets and dressed warmly and headed out. Hubby met us there when he was done working and my mom came with us as well.
     It actually wasn't too bad temperature wise and even though not all of the animals were out I'm glad we went and that the kids got to have some fun.

Happy Big Brother

Sleepy Froggie

Big Brother and grandma

up close and personal with the lion

up close and personal with the lion

up close and personal with the lion

Froggie wanted to see the lion too

all bundled up

the swans hanging out on the ice

Todd the 55 year old turtle

Big Brother checking out the turtle

Froggie the popcorn monster

Froggie the popcorn monster

our little family at the zoo

Happy Froggie

     Hubby and I also had a "date night". We don't go out often but friends of ours from the Navy had invited us to dinner and so we headed out to have dinner with them at a local Mexican restaurant and then after that some of us stopped by Menchies for dessert (it's a frozen yogurt bar!). It was nice to get out and socialize and not have to worry about how the kids were behaving and whether they were bored or not.

Breakfast with Santa Cow, Playing in the Snow and a Party!

     Saturday morning we headed out into the snow to attend a Chick-fil-a event. It just so happened to be breakfast with Santa Cow. The kids got a yummy breakfast out, which we don't normally do, and they got to make a craft, play in the play area and meet Santa Cow.
     Big Brother had a blast and Froggie absolutely loved getting her own "real" food for breakfast instead of her normal oatmeal. Despite the snowy weather and slippery roads it was worth the trip out. After our breakfast we did a little bit of shopping and headed home for lunch and nap time.

Mmmm fruit

Breakfast!

Gingerbread man

Froggie liked hers too

Santa cow!

The kids got gifts from Santa Cow

Hubby and Froggie snoozing

     After nap time Big Brother wanted to help shovel the driveway. He got all bundled up and put on his snow suit and headed out with Hubby while I looked for his old snow pants for Froggie. Of course they weren't where I thought they were and I didn't want to spend too much time looking for them so I improvised. With approximately 4 layers on I carted Froggie out to hang out with all of us in the snow. She seemed to like watching it fall but I'm still on the hunt for Big Brother's old snow pants so she can really play.

Snow Angels

He LOVES the snow

Building a snowman

Hanging out in the snow

a tiny snowman

     After our fun morning and afternoon we headed back out in the snow to go to a Christmas party. This was your standard "command Chirstmas party" with some food, door prizes and some other miscellaneous things to do before coming to a close. The kids were well behaved and seemed to have fun. We won a door prize (COFFEE!!!!) and got to watch Hubby "sumo wrestle"!

Sumo wrestling

The kids!