January

I've been feeling a bit uninspired in the blogging world lately, but here is a sampling of photos from our everyday happenings in January...

Austin was supposed to be getting dressed one morning, but I found that he got a bit distracted.  Can't really be upset at finding this:

Lego mania continues.  They explode in an impressive way, but I love seeing the little creations he comes up with.

I often find this.  Ugh.  (what it doesn't show are the millions of tiny legos scattered in the carpet...and on his bookcase... and under his bed and dresser...)  It's good I love him so much.  :)

Austin has loved playing in the snow!  It's strange to not have any pictures of Zach out there since he's in school all day and it is cold and getting dark by the time he is home.

Everyone decides to repaint their main interior themselves during the busiest time of year, right?  Like starting the week before Christmas.  Cal was a good sport and we repainted all the yellow (wall below) to a beautiful gray (wall above).  I hadn't initially intended to repaint that brown wall on the right, which goes into the kitchen, but I was ambitious and did some touch ups on it with a paint sample in that color and it turned out to not be an exact match.  So it was a polka dotted wall or a repaint!  So it is gray now too.  It has really brightened up the house and is a definite improvement.

The boys were excited to help, although we didn't let them do too much.

I'm a little nuts and did all the edges with an artist's 1/2 inch paintbrush, often with a headlamp because we did a lot of painting at night.

We have had some ridiculously cold weather here this winter!  I opened Zach's blinds one morning to find some amazing frost.  I grabbed my camera but it only lasted for less than a minute before melting.  Spring is so close I can almost taste it, and we are so excited!