How's That List Coming Along?

I bet you are dying to know how things are coming with the Spring Break Thursday Thirteen. Very well, thank you.

1. Rousing game of hide-and-seek...this time outdoors at the Ice Park. Lukey is hiding....

...here's Olivia in a tunnel of ice.

2. Lots of snowboarding. Elijah went today, but Nick is kickin' back since the unfortunate wipe-out. Elijah's trip to Birch involved a 30-minute drive to drop him off, 30 minutes home. Two hours later, 30 minutes to the hill to trade him a snowboard for broken skis, 30 minutes home. An frantic hour search for a missing Nick on his stuck snow machine, 30 minutes to the hill to pick up Elijah, 30 minutes home. Total: 4 hours in the truck (not including two side trips to the store).

3. Special time with Emily included some shopping and home manicure.


4. Seed packets are still in the bag. The dirt is under several feet of snow, and I'm lacking the motivation to tackle that project.

5. Work on Olivia's blanket....very little.

6. Finish a project. Remember awhile back when had you guess what these were?


Now they are embellished a bit....


And sewn into 11 aprons that were intended as Christmas gifts, but LIFE got in the way of completion.
Complete with two pockets, I might add. They will be packaged with some cookbooks picked for the individual and sent out on Monday. Better late than never.

7, 8 & 9: Sewing projects...fabric is washed and I am now ironing.

10. Pay-it-forward project is started, but it is 2:00am and I am too lazy to photograph it. (I'll show you later!).

11. Take the kids to the Ice Sculptures. Check! Here are some shots from the Kids Park taken with a crappy camera since the battery was dead on the good camera. (Perfect planning on my part...NOT!). (Tuesday for "My World" I'll share shots of the sculptures in the competition).

A slide next to a sourdough and bear (click to enlarge).

Emily got in the bowl, but it was too slippery to get out!

A big maze that got the little people confused and lost!

Lucas and Olivia couldn't get enough. As soon as they hit the bottom they were running for the stairs to do it again. The rest of us were freezing and wanted to move on. Not happening.

Everyone in one shot! :)

This is quite possibly the most dangerous thing ever. And there were two of them. The kids slide quite quickly in just snow pants, but there were also sleds. The sleds flew down and out and across the snow. Four lanes is about stupid because the inside lanes would stand up to walk and would cross the outside lane of a racing sled. Lucas had such a close call that I actually started crying. Can you imagine his little body slamming into that ice? It made me sick, but apparently I am the worrier of the family because no one else cried. Again, they loved it. Lucas and Emily didn't want to leave, but did. Olivia freaked out, cried and even kicked her boots off. Apparently, it was fun.

Lucas

Nick and Elijah

Emily...one of the screaming sleds!

You have to tilt your head to the left. I never even thought about how I was holding the camera, and to edit it I have to spend $30 to upgrade to Pro. It's 2:15 am...you can tilt your head! :)

12. Haven't even been to the "living spaces".

13. Have the chicken order in my head, just need to type it in tomorrow.

So far, pretty successful. Still so much more to do.....