Vermont 2010!

Our family had a great time in Killington, VT! Next time we hope to stay longer and we will definitely be getting Jake strapped in skis to go down a mountain!

Thursday was spent driving... we left around 8am and got to the Grey Bonnet Inn around 8pm. I fell asleep shortly after unpacking along with the boys. Jake & Josh were such great troopers on the way up!

On Friday, I took Jake to Pico Mountain to watch Daddy ski. We let him ski with Paul, Pa, G, and Ally and boy did he love it. He was fascinated with trying to get on the ski lift. He will be sooooo ready to go next winter. That night, Paul and I enjoyed a date night out at The Grist Mill. (Been a long time since we had one of those!)

Saturday we enjoyed the indoors and I went for a full body massage while Paul skied at Killington. That evening we drove about an hour to Norwich University to watch the quarter final ice hockey game. What an amazing game! The other team was leading 1-0 until 45 seconds left when Norwich scored to tie it up. Then Norwich scored the winning goal about 2 minutes into OT. Amazing!

Sunday was a looooooong ride home. The boys weren't too excited about sitting in the car for that long again. (Can't say I blame them!) Josh, especially, didn't understand why we couldn't take him out of his seat and hold him. With a lot of entertainment from G and the DVD player (thank goodness!), we managed to make it home with most of our sanity!

Pictures of our awesome trip are below! (Paul has some great ones from on top of the mountain.... will steal from him and post soon!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Jake and Josh had St. Patrick's Day parties at school with all green themed activities and food. Of course they dressed for the occasion as well!

Josh captured on camera with one of his usual huge smiles!! (And partaking in one of his favorite activities -- eating!)

Family Hike in the Battlefields

Two weekends ago, the Gunning family took full advantage of the warmer weather and went to the Manassas Battlefields for a hike. Josh rode in the backpack (loved it) and Jake, the little trooper, walked and ran almost the whole way. (I had to pick him up and carry him for the last 1/4 mile while he slept on my shoulder!) It was so nice to be outside in the fresh air and sunshine! Some pictures below.

Jake & Josh

Some recent photos of the baby bops!

Joshy want a cracker?!?!

For what it's worth, I thought he said "cracker"! :-)

Anyway, it's fun to think he did.

Toddler Trick #3

Animal sprinkles of any type of food make it much more appetizing to a toddler. I put a couple monkey sprinkles on Jake's chicken nuggets tonight and he scarfed down FIVE of them! I have never seen him eat that many.

Blizzard of 2010!

Pictures from the massive snow storm that we got on Feb 5th and 6th. It dumped about 28 inches on us and caused us to lose power for almost 24 hours. Fifty degrees in the house in the middle of a snow storm is cold!

Now it is March 1st and almost all of the snow has melted, but remnants of the big piles left behind from the plows remains.

Disney on Ice Slideshow

Pictures from the Disney on Ice show!