February Pics and Kendall is Five

We celebrated Kendall's fifth birthday on Friday, Feb 21 after she came home from school.  She wanted macaroni and cheese and pizza for her gourmet meal so guess what our menu was!  I'm starting with a few random pictures of our February after the storm.

Seems appropriate that the last remnant of snow is by the Michigan M

Sunset over Lake Murray

Taking a walk on the Lake Murray Dam bridge

The half way mark of our two mile walk

Kendall's loot awaits her arrival

We're just monkeying around

A soccer ball!

"Frozen" characters...WOW!

"Look what your new watch does!"

More loot

"I got an amulet!"

Checking out more birthday loot

Is it time for cake?

"Let's eat cake!"

Icy times and Valentines in SC

Valentine's week in South Carolina was quite the week this year.  A major ice storm hit the area and schools and government offices were closed for three days.  So, we had no choice but to play!  To end the week we even got to experience a 4.2 earthquake...our first experience.  It shook the whole house and made a low, growling rumbling sound but no damage.  What else might February 2014 bring?

Mimosas and Bananagrams on a snow day

None of this is snow.  It is all sleet build up so not good for making snowmen but the kids tried

A makeshift sled

"Do it again!"

The ice took down a large limb on the Mason's tree in the backyard

Happy Valentine's Day!

Flowers for Maeve

Goodie bags for the girls

"Look what I got!"

We even got a bag of goodies.  

Wow!  Those are big!

Sugar cookie time

The girls helped decorate

Kendall rolled some out herself

A sampling

A new game called, "I can do that!"

Grandma Rose carries a cake under her chin while skipping around the trick-a-ma-stick

Grandma Bob had to carry a ball under his shirt

Icy South Carolina

The latest storm to pass through the southeast clipped us pretty well but our immediate area dodged a bit bullet as we only had 3-5 inches of sleet and then a quarter inch of ice on top.  South of us there were areas with as much as an inch of ice!  Our power stayed on, too!

I thought I left this crap back in Michigan!

This is not snow.  It is all accumulated sleet pellets

Kendall and Avery enjoyed the white stuff

Our sweet bay magnolia could end up with some real damage

Our palm tree in front should be ok

Off for a little hike in the land of ice.  The girls had just seen the movie Frozen a couple nights earlier and they said this must be that land.

Lots of leaning trees

Here you see the ice build up

Kendall is sitting on the bush not just leaning.  You can't tell but the bush is frozen

Avery got in the act, too

Back from our winter walk

Late January SC Snow...and early February Pics

Well, it's amazing what a bit short of two inches of snow can do to South Carolina!  The place was basically closed down for 2-3 days.  Granted, it started with some ice on the roads but after day one...really!?  

We got a chance to visit Kendall's preschool classroom on an open house.  Kendall demonstrated one of her mathematics lessons for us.  Avery care continues and she loves playing with the doll house that Grandma Alice had purchased and had at her house for a few years.  

Bob attended a job fair at Riverbanks Zoo in hopes of finding a little part time work.  Will see what comes from it.  

The backyard is a pretty white.

Booger tracks in the pergola

Our holiday palm in the front yard

Miss Gleaton, Kendall's teacher, shows us some of the materials at our open house visit

Kendall created this pattern of squared numbers and visual representation up to 10 squared.

Avery loves to play with the doll house

Story time before nap time

Kendall bravely attacked the climbing rock at Riverbanks Zoo

Half way up!

Kendall and Avery in a movie coma