Spring, I miss you!

I want spring to come!!!! I like winter and I love snow, and I don't mind it being cold, but we've had plenty this year already. I want it to be warm so I can wear shorts and a T-shirt and run around barefoot and squish my toes in the cool mud and for it to be warm enough that that feels good! But I suppose I will have to wait. I'm not very good at that. Another thing I don't like is not being able to ride! It's either too cold so I don't want to ride even though the ground would be ok, or it's nice and warmish and I want to ride but it's too muddy! Daddy likes to run so he doesn't really appreciate it when I ride B. on the trails when it's muddy; it kinda makes umm....gouges right where Daddy wants to run. It's great for twisting ankles though!

Igloo!

So, I think it was yesterday, Zeke & Isaac decided to build an igloo. They started from a fort wall they'd built before and it's gotten pretty big. As soon as I found out what they were doing of course, I helped too. I've mostly carved out the inside, envisioned & instructed, packed, and supervised(to make sure my instructions were carried out). I did haul a few wheelbarrows-full(?) of snow though. Zeke has mostly hauled and did the initial carving and a little after we enlarged. Isaac has umm.......oh! he helped clear out a lot of the snow is was getting from carving out the inside. Not sure what else he was doing; probably playing Star Wars. Anyways, I got some pictures for ya! I tried to get some of the inside and w/ Joy(dog) inside, but that just didn't work. Joy was just too busy trying to lick my face to pose for a picture.

Inside-ish

I took this picture coming home from somewhere awhile ago....

Zeke

Zeke got braces! I'm sure some of you already know that, but yeah. Let me see...I think it was yesterday morning, so Thurs., I think. He said he'd have them for 2 years, then his teeth should be a lot better. For those of you who know what Zeke's teeth look like I'm sure you will be relieved. I sure am.;) Of course, now Mom's all worried that I need braces, which I probably kinda-sorta do, but then Dad decided that since my teeth are fine health-wise(it's just hard to brush certain spots), that I could wait until I was married or something. That'll be awhile....

Anyways, Zeke said that while his teeth didn't really hurt at first, now they do a little(especially when he bites anything remotely hard). Mom and Dad both had braces, but Mom's got messed up again because of something having to do w/ the roof of her mouth, and Dad's got a little squished 'cause he didn't get his wisdom teeth out. Anyways, Dad informed Zeke that as soon as your teeth stop hurting you have another appointment and they crank it real hard. Zeke did not look excited about this. But he did manage to go to basketball practice w/out the world ending, so I think he'll be fine. The only problem is that now since so many people have braces, it's not weird anymore, so I can't really tease Z effectively.=( I might survive though. I'm sure I can find something else to tease him about....hmm.....

Yeah. So that's it. Why is it that I can't summarize? At least I didn't write quite as much as last time...oh, pictures to come soonish, hopefully. I asked Zeke if I could, but he said no. I'll convince him to change his mind eventually. Sitting on him might work...