Sage - a future hockey player?

 Sage loves hockey - especially the Blue Jackets this season. 

 Here he is posing with the famous cannon.

John took one of his old hockey sticks and sawed it down for Sage to use.  He got this fabulous mask at the OSU hockey game.  He is constantly asking to go outside and play hockey.  

Snow and Valentine's Day!

 We had very little snow this winter. Emma and Kate are bummed because they didn't have any snow days.  We took advantage of getting outside a weekend in February with some friends.

 We finally got smart and started buying Emma black snow pants so Sage will not have to wear pink!  Luckily it doesn't bother him!  Real boys wear pink right?!  Ha!

 The kids worked hard outside with Dominique to build a family of snowmen!

Happy Valentine's Day 2016 (you have to love the selfie stick pictures)!

Indian Princess - Winter Events

 The girls and John headed to their winter camp-in in January. They went ice skating, swimming at the hotel and tobogganing in the morning.  The men have developed wonderful friendships as have the girls. 

 Yesterday, the girls went to the Willy Wonka themed Father Daughter Dance.

The girls got their hair done at Sweet&Sassy with their friends.

 Love this pic.

 Dads and Daughters

 Their tribe, Dolphin Stream.

Like father, Like Son...

As you know, John is a lover of lawn care and snow removal.  In fact, his dream as a child was to own a lawn service.  Sage has definitely followed in his father's footsteps.  From cutting grass in the summer to shoveling snow in the winter, he loves to be outside.

So one Saturday morning in January, Sage, Kate and John jumped out of bed and were out of the house by 8:15am.  Little did we know that John had a plan to build a plow for Sage's John Deere tractor. 

Look how excited he is!

Any opportunity to get outside, is a blast (even 1/2 inch).

Sage looks so fierce with his hockey mask!

(John, Tom and Sage went to the OSU hockey game while we went to The Sound of Music)

Valentine's Day mailbox craft at Home Depot!

January/February - a perfect time to go to a show!

 Grandma and Papa took the grandkids to see "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on January 8th at the Lincoln Theatre in Columbus.

 The Weatherwax ladies along with family friend Diane went to see the touring Broadway show "The Sound of Music" on January 29th at the Ohio Theater - it was a wonderful show.

And a father-child tradition, John took the kiddos to see "Disney on Ice" on February 3rd.  When the kiddos came home I said "Emma, how was it?" and she replied, "it was ok."  

My little girl is growing up...sniff sniff.