Nothing special. Just January.

What have we done this past week? 1) We went with a group of neighborhood moms and little ones to the Natural History Museum last Friday.  I think it totaled 8 moms and 14 kids? Or something like that.  Believe it or not it went incredibly well.  Not bad for children nearly all under the age of 4! 2) Celebrated "Burns Night" with some friends and even experienced a live bagpipe session!  I love bagpipes/bagpipers.  3) Took my little ones out to roller-skate with some friends in our drive.  My eldest kept saying to the other little boy..."It's ok, you don't have to hold your mom's hand.  Let's race!!!!"  She said this at least ten times.  She is getting better and my regret for letting her get them is slowly dissipating.  And now back to Monday.

the little ones on the right took their skates off for snack time

We traveled back to the Midwest to celebrate my mother's 60th birthday.  We promised my daughters snow, and snow there was!  We made snow angels, a snowman, and went ice-skating and sledded every day.  We had a  "winter wonderland" photo session too.  Here are some of the images shot from Jennifer Marie Photography. 

My mother turned 60 and we were able to head back to the Mid-west to celebrate.  It was a great day of celebration with family and friends.  The food was Mexican inspired dishes with turquoise and purple cupcakes for dessert.  It was very snowy that week which made the outdoor scenery beautiful!

The Birthday girl

The Hostesses: Sisters

Grandpa keeping kids busy during party