Sarah is 1 year old!

It's hard to believe a year has gone by already, but Sarah turned 1 year old today at 3:58 p.m.! Grandma and Grandpa Gordon came through on their way to Texas and stopped by for 90 minutes for some breakfast and cake. Here's Sarah with mommy and daddy!



Here are the birthday twins! Sarah is 1, and Grandpa is 65 ... er, I mean, 28!



Sarah gets ready to dig into her cake ... we turned her loose and she eventually got frosting all over her face.



Even Grandma Gordon got slimed!


Feeling a little queasy from all the frosting!

Party prep!

Sarah is going to be 1 year old tomorrow! Today she went out with mommy and daddy to pick out the wagon that Grandma and Grandpa Wynne bought for her! Daddy put the wagon together in 10 minutes, and Sarah LOVES it! It has seating for her and her future boyfriend, 4 cupholders, and it even has a canopy for sunny days!



Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa Wynne! XOXOXO!


Daddy was doing laundry, and Sarah kept grabbing folded clothes and messing them up, so Daddy took a break and decided to put underwear on his head and Sarah's! What a couple of wackos!

We are the champions!

The Brooklyn Park Pirates Squirt "C" hockey team went 3-0 at the District 3 Tournament last week in Blaine, winning first place! Noah is standing in the next-to-last row on the left side. Each boy and girl received an individual trophy, and at the year-end bowling party, Noah was voted "Mr. Determination." Way to go, Noah and the Pirates!

A busy household

Noah's good friend Connor really likes talking to Sarah and hanging out with her. We call him "her boyfriend," and he seems to like it! Sarah seems to like Connor quite a bit, too!


Connor's new cell phone drew a lot of interest from the gaggle of kids we had around one day last week. In back are Lucas and Caleb. In front are Lucas' friend Camron, then Connor, Sarah and Noah.

Big snowstorm!

Well, after nearly three years in our house, we were due for a big snowstorm, and we got it! This was our second snowstorm in a week ... the first one dropped nine inches, and this one left perhaps 14 inches in its wake!



Rich is tired of shoveling our driveway! Last night he came home from work and had to shovel away a foot of snow to get the Grand Prix up into the garage before the snowplow came by. Any more snow, and he's threatening to buy a snow-blower!


Snow piles.


Max, of course, acts like a great big puppy in this kind of weather! The snow in some places is up to his chin!