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It's been a while since I last updated--sorry! I've decided to just do updates on facebook now. I'm too busy to keep up with both. : )

Greenville Zoo

For our spring break, I decided to take the kids on a little trip to Knoxville. On our way, I decided to take the kids to the Greenville Zoo. They LOVED it. It's a small zoo, but it's just the right size for Ethan and Katelyn and they have an awesome playground too.

Ethan was so proud of himself for climbing up here, but then got stuck!

On safari at the zoo!

They liked the statues as much as the real animals!

They are both roaring for the camera!

Our Trip to Knoxville

First, I have to say how I hate uploading pictures on this thing, because it never puts it in the order I want! Anyway, here are some pics of the kids at the Children's Museum of Oakridge right outside of Knoxville. It was a really neat place and the kids really had a blast.

This is the rainforest room which "scared" Ethan because it was dark.

This is a giant doll house for kids. It was really neat and Ethan and Katelyn loved it.

This is the second floor of the doll house.

This is the water works section of the museum.

They had a section for puppets.

This is a little space ship that they could climb to the second floor in.

This was in the space ship room.

Part of the museum held items from the "olden" days and here is an old toy.

This section contained items from different countries. Here is Ethan and Katelyn playing a xylophone from Africa. What is neat is that they let the kids play with the displays.

Thoughts from Ethan

The other day I told Ethan that he and Katelyn were my favorite people in the whole world (except for Daddy, of course) and Ethan said, "We're not people, Mommy. We're little kids!"

Then last night I told Ethan that we needed to get him so new shoes. He said, "If I get bigger shoes, I can be Jesus and help people." I'm not sure exactly the thought behind that statement, but at least he recognizes that Jesus leaves some big shoes behind to fill! : )

The kids' first snowball fight--they won!

Let it snow!

We woke up from our naps to a Winter Wonderland. The kids LOVED it and cried when we made them come back in. Their favorite thing to do was throw snowballs at us--video coming later.

Valentines

These pics are late, but the kids really enjoyed making cupcakes for their Valentine's parties at school.

Nasty cold week, wonderful warm weekend!

After a week with the temperature being in the teens, this weekend in the 60's (and even 70's) has been heavenly. We've had the windows open all day and have spent most of the afternoon outside playing and running around. I think the kids (and me!) will sleep well tonight. I forgot how much I loved being outside and being in warm weather. It's been so invigorating! Right now, the windows are still open, the kids are relaxing watching a show and I am cooking spaghetti. Life can't get better than this! : )

Beating the Winter Blues....

Okay, so I was looking at a friend's blog and I saw her last post was at the end of December and I thought "Come on, now! You need to get some more posts here." Then I saw I hadn't updated mine since then either. I guess not too much is really going on. We aren't really going anywhere since the weather is chilly and rainy which isn't too conducive to trips.

Today we're off from school, but just laying around the house. Ethan's got a yucky cough so he's allowed to lay on the couch and watch some shows. Earlier though, we were having fun dressing up and running around the house. I've also been reading Christian History Made Easy. It's AMAZING and I can't believe how so many of us Christians really have no idea of our own Christian heritage (which is both shocking and humbling).

Here's some pics of our dress up time.

I keep their Halloween costumes so they can dress up in them.

Yes, she really is my daughter though you can't see too much Mommy genes in there. She's got my crazy hair and that's about it.

Princess Katelyn at your service. We have a Princess music CD that Katelyn loves dancing too. I've got to video it some time because it's so adorable.

Ethan's Christmas Show Performance

Ethan was hilarious in our Kid's Christmas show. In this song (the only one he actually knew), he was pretty good. The rest of the time he tried to push others off the stage in his attempt to get to the microphone, sang random words, stood with his arms open to me asking for a hug and being the "kid" that always makes these things entertaining. He even had some of the other kids on the stage cracking up. It was really hard to keep a serious face while I was watching!

Christmas Pictures

Ethan and Katelyn were not scared of Santa this year! Ethan was very bold telling Santa that he wanted a Little Einsteins Rocket Ship and a Diego Dinosaur rescue center (which he got!).

This wasn't her first Santa encounter this year. When Tracy took her to school one day, Santa was there. She promptly ran up to Santa (in front of the others) got in his lap and told him she was a princess and wanted candy for Christmas.

Relaxing with Daddy!

The Christmas Parade train--and Ethan fell asleep in it like he did last year!

This has fascinated Katelyn all Christmas. They sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" mooing, meowing or barking.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas day. We certainly enjoyed ourselves--so much so that I really didn't take any pictures!

Happy a wonderful New Year too!