March 18, 2018

A Sweet Weekend


Last weekend, the Whites came up for sugaring.

Friday afternoon was gorgeous for snowfort building. 


Working on their fortifications


A tired girl


Heading out to feed cows


Dad wandering around in his short sleeved shirt in the snow


The evaporator tenders


Smoke going up the hatch



Penny worn out by all the exuberant children


We had some friends from Canada for lunch and then we made sugar snow. We being the guys. I just took pictures. 



All that amber goodness!


Abilene was a fan


It was sticky stuff!


Then a hotly contested game of authors happened in the living room. 


There was a lot of passion and competition. 


Especially from this kid!


Lincoln made himself a sword in case things got out of hand. 


But they calmed down. 


Until Marilyn started being nefarious and taking Lily's cards that is...


Coloring after supper


On Sunday, we did a quick, cold, family picture. 


It was a cloudy day, but all the snow made it bright, so we are squinting AND shivering. 


The kids were grumpy about the situation for some reason. 


But they survived. 


Hoyt wanted to be in a picture. 


Running back inside


Poor lilies. 
We had a lovely, springy week or two in February and the lilies popped up looking for action. Snow and cold was not the action they were hoping for.


This girl and her Harry Potter. 


Brownie sundaes


A new ticket to ride board! The Wild West. It was pretty fun. A few twists that I did not master the first go around, but I am feeling pretty confident about making a second attempt!


Silly-kins!



Love that Rilla girl!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

great. LOVE the family pictures.

Unknown said...

Umm yes LOVE your family pictures and how tall is ORIANNA???? Wow!! She's all grown up. Thanks for sharing :) Come see us! (This is Julie logged in on Mike's account, but I'm too lazy to switch ;))

Virginia said...

Well, I love you guys and your cute, squinty-ness! I second Julie in that Orianna is getting TALL. Wowie! Looks like an overall fun weekend!

Cecil and Amy said...

The family picture is great as the kids seemed to hide their grumpiness pretty well! :) I see that Justin is back into facial hair!

I have always wondered what sugar snow was. Thanks for the pictures on that!