It was my BIRTHDAY!!

I milked it this year.  We had a 4 day "celebration" of sorts.  By celebration I mean: not having to change every diaper, eating what I wanted when I wanted, having a DQ cake, and going out shopping WITH my hubs!

Saturday we got my cake.  Actually Jared went and got it. He picked out a perfect one (he chose from what they had in the case)

On my actual birthday Jared took the day off!  WAHOO!!  I also got to go out to eat with him withOUT kids.  My awesome in-laws came down from Brainerd to watch the kids so we could eat. I never realized how stressed out I would get when we went out to eat with the kids.  It was so nice to go out and not have to care about other people's dining experience or if my own child was eating like she should. Ahhhh (sigh of relaxation).  Once we got home we went right back out to Costco so I could buy myself some fruit using my in-laws membership.  Mmmmmm.  We purchased 4lbs of strawberries and kiwi.  I also got a large container of raspberries.  yum yum.  Jared just HAD to purchase a case of Monster as well. ugh.

Today I woke up to a bunch of white terribleness outside.  I decided we were going to make the best of it.  Since Boy had woken early he was ready for a nap at 8:30am.  So I bundled up Girl and we headed outside. I had the intention of shoveling while she played.  That did NOT happen.  I was able to shovel about 2 feet down the driveway before I realized it was WAY too heavy for that monkey business.  Once we played in the snow for a bit Girl said she was cold so we went in.  I gave her a snack and turned on Sesame street.  I headed back out and snow blowed the driveway.  The warmth of the driveway mixed with the warmth in the air cleaned that last little layer off and I have a nice clean driveway.

Making castles in the snow

The toys got left behind when she went into the yard to pretend she was stuck!

snow turtle

You can't even tell there is a background here unless you look toward the top.  It was definitely a pretty white snow!

The little bit of driveway you see ... that's about all I shoveled - BUT across the whole thing, that's something, right?