March

Oh Aaron... I'm not sure exactly what was going on here, but he was off with Dad somewhere doing a job and he took his notebook along in the backseat of the car to document his troubles.

You wouldn't imagine the arguments that can happen when a big box makes its way into your house.  The boys each had to have a turn sleeping in this cardboard box for a night

Aaron accompanied Mike on a Saturday morning processing meat from several of Uncle Dave's pigs

From what I can recall, March was snowy and cold.  These were some interesting low-lying frost clouds early one morning over the field

Icicles hanging off the sunroom roof

Ice and sunshine... beautiful

I think we were starting to feel a bit cooped-up at this point in the year, and things started to get a little bit crazy at home

Everybody squeeze into the picture!

Winter threw up in my living room... is it spring yet?  I was so ready to pack away those winter coats, boots, hats, mitts, scarves... but for March, they continued to litter the house

Somebody got a crazy new hairstyle!

All I want for... my birthday... is a new front tooth!  Aaron's grey front tooth finally fell out

Opa VD came over for coffee and dinner, and we were happy to be able to soak in some sunshine together

Burning off some energy in the play place at Aunt Andrea's work

Well, if spring isn't quite here yet, we'll make our own flowers with squirt bottles and food colouring.  They didn't really end up looking like flowers but it was nice to get outside

We took a trip to Hamilton and met this super famous artist, and even got this ultra-cool selfie with him.  Timothy had a few of his paintings featured in a gallery downtown

And then we moved the insanity of Many Small Children at Suppertime to a restaurant to eat.  It worked out fairly well considering we were outnumbered by young kids

Every once in a while, the kids get to take a jacuzzi bubble bath downstairs, and this is a huge highlight!

Our friend Ann came to visit during the March break and we had a wonderful time catching up with her.  The kids swarmed all over her as she read them books, and we played and learned a few new games. 

Again, it was warm enough to spend some time in the sunroom

During the March break, construction on our new chicken coop began!  Dave came and helped Mike with the roof.  Mike was able to salvage enough free barn board (from a to-be-burned barn) to cover the outside, and we were really looking forward to filling it with chickens

I often find Nate cuddled in with Stephen in the mornings

Mom, Sarah, Bethany and I had a freezer-meal preparation day where we spent all day in the kitchen and everyone ended up with 8 meals for the freezer

It has been WAY too long since I've taken a Four Boys on a Couch picture, but here is the most recent one