Hard to believe Claudia is turning 5 years old. She and Evie are only a few weeks apart. Mandy had her birthday party at Solid Rock Gym. Claudia is taking gymnastics classes there. They also have a few hour window on Friday mornings during the school year that is open to the public so Joel takes the kids on occasion. The kids love jumping into big foam pits, doing the zip line and bouncing non stop for hours.
Ethan swinging and dropping into a foam pit.
balancing on a beam and jumping into a foam pit
And there is fun for adults too..
The kids gathered before cake time - it was cute to see Ethan and Joe snuggling up
Cheese. So this group of kids are only Claudia's cousins and maybe someday step-brothers and sister. It was quite the party.
All of these cousins waiting for cake and ice cream...the birthday girl is all the way at the end of the table
Happy 5
th birthday Claudia - thanks for the fun party
Mandy, Bob, Joel, Hunter and yummy cake
Clare and her missing two front teeth
After cake and presents the kids got to play for a few more minutes.
We sang happy birthday to Claudia as she
zip lined while everyone threw foam blocks at her...then everyone jumped into the foam pit below. Wish we had one of these at home.
The kids woke up to their first snow of the year over the weekend. They quickly got dressed and grabbed containers to collect snow and headed outside. 
It wasn't much of a snow but nonetheless, exciting. It was chilly outside. I think it was only about 7:30am or so. They didn't stay outside long. Maybe only as long as it took to dress them.
The kids like eating snow. We added a little food coloring for fun. Ethan chose green. 
Evie went for yellow. I need to get a few spray bottles to fill it with food coloring for the next time it snows so the kids can make the yard a big rainbow.
