My parents came for a visit earlier this month.

We all absolutely LOVED having them here!!

Only took a few pictures....

We celebrated Carson's birthday together...

our handsome firstborn turned 3 on February 13th!!

Taking the kids to Jumpin Jane's.... a huge success!:

A date night with my Honey:

Little Emma sure loved her time with Grandpa!

It was a wonderful week.... we miss them lots!!!

And more pictures of the kids from this month:

Found these pictures when going through files... maybe taken in September.

I cannot believe how the kids have grown since then!! It always catches me by surprise.

Some yards have snowmen..... our yard has Mt. Rainier. :)

The Forest

This is our Forest:

It's only two scrawny pine trees at the back of our yard. But to Carson, it's our Forest. The kids collect small twigs for their campfire, have branches they use as brooms to sweep the floor and only allow you to enter if you ring the correct doorbell (branch). Once we found a dead bird in our Forest. Carson found it and solemnly said, "I think he died because he didn't finish his dinner when his mommy told him to." (Jesse once told Carson that if we don't eat, we'll die..... oh, how I love the things kids say!). We buried the bird under some leaves, but the next time we came out it was gone. Emma still checks every time to see if it came back yet. One day in our Forest we came upon a squirrel trying to carry a huge apple up the tree. He dropped the apple and it landed right at the kids' feet. They were so tickled to see the little teeth marks in the apple. We watched the squirrel run away. Carson still talks about that poor squirrel that never got to bring his yummy apple home for dinner and instead had to eat dull leftover acorns.

We have many great adventures under our two little trees!

Walking around the neighborhood:

Attacking a suspicious tree with their sticks:

As you can see..... we're easily entertained!

Further proof of that point:

Yesterday it snowed a good six inches or more.

Today we plan to bundle up and go exploring in our Forest!