January and Nick's Birthday

 We have had a very interesting January.  Not only is Kris still doing his crazy travelling (now in Feb 20 weeks).  But the kids have had an outrageous number of snow days.  So here are a few things that have happened in our crazy January.

 We took the kids to see the lights on the last night of Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo.  As always entertaining (and as usual - cold).  But a good family time.

 We celebrated Nick's 4th birthday with a bowling party.  As usual for me, I forget to plan anything until after Christmas and then run around trying to figure it all out.  Thankfully, it worked out well and everyone was able to attend.  Nick had a great time bowling.  He dances while the ball is rolling down the lane - he's very entertaining.  All the kids also got tokens for video games and tickets to 'buy' trinkets.  He had an Avengers cake and had a wonderful time.

 The below right picture is one of our many snow day activities.  The kids were very enthralled with the spin art machine.  I really have to buy some more paper for it.  They made so many pictures.  But we are having trouble figuring out what to do with so many snow days (it is snowing again as I write and Ryan got let out of school early because of it).

 

 A few weeks ago, Ryan and I drove up to MI to help Robin move out of her apartment.  It was a very snowy weekend, but we managed to get there and back in one piece.  Ryan spent the day with Nanny and my dad and I drove the truck.  Got everything done and had some fun.  Ryan and I spent a few hours on Sunday waiting out the snow at the Detroit Auto Show.  Ryan enjoyed 'driving' all the cars for about an hour and a half.  Then he got overwhelmed and hungry and we had to try to get out of there.  But he did approve the new Tacoma as Daddy's next truck!

This is just a cute picture of Nick before we went to get his pictures taken at JCPenneys.  He was so excited to be Lightning McQueen from head to toe!  And looks so awesome!