snow sucks

And I'm moving.  Soon.  Somewhere that's not here.  8 inches of snow.

flower girls and leprachauns

Grace tried on her flower girl dress for Tabitha's wedding in June, it's really cute! 

She couldn't be more excited either!

And our little leprachaun Matt O'Kinney is the Wachter Middle School St. Patrick's Day dress up champion for the second year in a row!  He's so weird :).  He won a bag of Jolly Ranchers.

40's!

Yes, we've made it into the 40's here in good ole' ND!  Finally, out of the single digits.  It was nice to get outside a little today, we took the dogs for a walk and the kids played for awhile.  Dodging huge muddy puddles of melty sludge isn't much fun, but with the sun and nice temps we didn't really mind.  We still have tons of snow.  The pic above shows the drifts by the driveway, which are about 3 feet high.  You can also see the huge lake of water at the end of the driveway from melting stuff....it should be interesting to see when it all melts! 

We found where our second snow shovel went:

I see grass!!!  Very exciting!

Blizzard

We had a nasty blizzard yesterday.  It's March, right?  Snow, freezing rain, torrential winds, you name it.  We couldn't even see the mailbox across the street.  Apparently the mall even closed at 5:00 pm, which never, ever happens.  Crazy!

Grace and I went to the mall today for something to do.  We got a new Children's Place so we had to check it out. LOVE!  We wandered around Target and got a pretzel too :).

The rest of the gang has been hanging out in their jammies all weekend.  We all really, really need spring!  Tyler and Ben (the Pokemon nerds) played their DS's most of the day.  Matt has been at his friend Ty's for a couple of nights.

I gave Lucy a little clip so I can take her to Pet Smart for a real clip.  I'm so embarrassed at how matted and shaggy she is that I had to clip some stuff off.  She's such a little brat...she'll stand outside and stare at me when I tell her to come in.  It's like a major stand-off, and unfortunately for her, I usually win :).

I'm signing Grace up for cheerleading.  They get to cheer for the Bismarck Midget Footbal League kids, it runs August-October.  I hope she'll do it, she says she wants to but when it comes to getting up in front of people she usually flakes out.  I think she'll have fun though!  They get real uniforms and everything!

Ben joined a Guitar Club that meets on Thursdays after school for an hour.  There were 25 slots and 120 kids applied....Ben's name got drawn so he got in!  He likes it so far, I have my fingers crossed that music will be his 'thing'. 

That's about it from here!  Melt snow, melt!  PLEASE melt!  Not sure the Peterson kids can handle much more of this North Dakota winter...Joel and I are ready to call it quits.

Bieber Fever

I took Grace and her friend Tokata to the Justin Bieber movie yesterday!  The girls had their heads together and giggled through the whole movie, they were so cute.  It was actually a pretty good movie, the Bieber is adorable!  Tokata is so cute.  She said her family had a thing to go to that day but she "threw a fit and my mom got tired of listening to me so she let me come".  :)  She is Native American and her last name is Iron Eyes, it's so great for Grace to learn about different cultures.

Grace did a lot of fashion designing on the pad that Aunt Heidi gave her for her birthday.  This is the awesome pair of boots she made!

It snowed again today.  I will really, really, really be happy when spring is here.  We still have a foot of snow in our front yard!  BLLLLAHHH.

On tap next week....Matt's parent-teacher conferences, Brownies, Diabetes class, Dentist, Ben's guitar club, and a 4 day weekend for the kids (just great). 

The beggars looking for a handout :)...

Kitchen wall redo

I decided to take down my bird plates, I'm getting tired of them.  Plus I'm always paranoid that they're going to break.  So I went to Hobby Lobby today and found a few things to put on that wall.  Somehow I wandered around Hobby Lobby for 2 hours.....I am a serious shopper :).  There are still 2 frames I need for some 5 x 7 pics, but the rest is done.  I'm going to start collecting K's to put on the wall.   I found one on a tile today...it's up on the left side shelf leaning on the candle holder. 
I found some fabric at Hobby Lobby for the drapes I want in the kitchen....haven't bought it yet though.  I have such a terrible time making up my mind. 

Ben entertaining himself at Matt's basketball game

With Nerf Darts stuck to his face.