stitches & ice cream

It started out as a great day! We were all at the pool...SK and JR is their new matching bikinis when tragedy struck! Julia cut her toe in the pool and was off to the hospital for stitches!

Later after  an impromptu cookout with the Timmerings ice cream was in order for sure for Julia! So we headed to the Widow Walk and had the best time on the river soaking up summer.....

being with friends.......

and totally forgetting about stitches for a few minutes!

It had been a crazy day but we had a beautiful night for sure...how could you not with a sky like this, ice cream and friends!

Ice Day!

There is nothing like a good snow day! The kids just relax and take it as a gift! What a treat to get up and see the world blanketed in snow...and to know you can spend the entire day in your pajamas! But we don't get ice days as often...so they are extra fun! The boys loved finding the biggest ice sickles ...then eating them!

 Skating on the driveway ....as it was a solid sheet of ice, was oodles of fun until we had a fall or two...

Sliding down the driveways..giggling the whole time...over and over again!

The boys had the best ice day...the girls did too...they enjoyed making cookies in the warmth of the kitchen and watching the fun from the windows!

Comfort at the Comfy Cow

Riggs has had a rough couple of days...he really took it to heart when Coach told him he cut off Pirece at the Rumble. We are so thankful that we were able to talk to coach and now he understands our Riggs more. Our shy, unconfident, intraverted little guy did not come off that way to Coach...he saw him as over competitive, driven and, as he doesn't chit chat too much at practice, a bit of a punk who is out for himself alone. We could not have been more shocked! Our little boy? You mean the child that was told by a classmate to sit under a tree for three days at recess because he choose to play football instead of kickball one day ...and did it? My shy, unconfident, nervous little boy? It just broke my heart that the coach thought that even for a moment about him...so far from the truth and the tender and fragile core of Riggs. So today Sarah Kate and Rollins were playing at the Timmerings after school and so I picked up Riggs and Colin and off we went to Riggs' favorite spot....the Comfy Cow! He and Colin ordered up a dish of their delicious cake batter icecream and just sat and smiled and talked...talked about being 8, soccer, school. laughed about many "remember whens"...it was so nice to see Riggs smile...he definately finds comfort at the Comfy Cow! Before we left he said.."we picked the right day to come...tomorrow they are serving broccoli!"