How We Entertain Ourselves

I have officially hit the end of my good humor toward the 'cozy' winter months. Staying inside no longer feels cozy and nice. I need some fresh air! Dirt! A walk! Its supposed to be 50 degrees on Sunday so you better believe we'll be outside. In the meantime, here are some of the ways that the kids and I have kept busy lately.

• Repelling down the stairs
• Building a kid-sized stagecoach
• Making a desk for James out of a diaper box, an old cowboy calendar, and some cork board (its a beauty)
• Practicing our roping skills (Jeff is the best of us all so far)
• Building/Racing our own mousetrap cars (Mine won!!!!!!!! I'll blog about that later, if the snow ever melts and we can take mine out for a long distance run. Did I mention that my car won?????:)
• Reading lots of books from the library
• Playing with play dough
• Making lots of crafts
• Sorting my button stash by color
• Building 935 versions of a horse pasture
• Giving the kids 935 sheep/horse/bucking bronco rides
• Making cookies
  
• Tents in the living room
• Dancing to the radio and singing really loud
  
• Pulling the kids back and forth across our slippery floor as they hold on to James' rope
  
• Bouncing off the walls
• Drooling over way too many seed catalogs
• Ordering way too many seeds
• Spray painting the snow (with food coloring/water)
• Going through enough drawing paper to fill a semi-truck
  
• And today....we're making butter, the old fashioned way (James' request)