New bikes are a good thing!

Our girls are getting too tall for their own good. Abby finally mastered riding a 2 wheel bike even though the one that she road was WAY too small for her. After falling off twice the other day we decided it was time to move on up in the world of bikes.

We only got one bike, for Sabrina. Sabrina's old bike was big enough for Abby to ride comfortably, and it didn't put us in the poor house. This would be the new bike, she should be good for a long time. We'll be buying Abby a new one next year probably cause she grows faster than we can buy her pants!

Along with new bikes came new helmets since they can now ride on the road safely. They loved the helmets and didn't want to take them off when they came in the house. It was all we could do to get them to take them off for lunch.
The best part was that they rode all day. We didn't see them for a couple of hours. They rode around and around the neighborhood. Sean had mapped out that 3 laps is a mile, and the last little bit of the lap is uphill to the house. The girls went around at least 6 times, so for them, that was serious long distance.

I'm all about spring

Since I live in a place that has a LONG crappy winter, I'm always excited to see the first signs of spring. The last week we have actually had lots of sunshine and warmer weather. WOOHOO! So the crocuses are out. Yay. Yet again, I have a crappy camera and couldn't get the pictures I really wanted. :( One of these days, I'll get a real camera :)

And of course, other than the crocuses, we have the stems from the daffodils. no flowers yet, but they can't be far behind.

Signs that the weather is finally warming up!

The cat begs to get out of the house. Constantly. The girls are outside. Without coats. Picking the berries off the bush to make some sort of "potion"

Shoes are missing!

There are buds on the trees. That are going to fall off and make a mess of our deck. sigh.

But I'm not complaining! I'll take the messy porch any day. As long as it doesn't SNOW again! hmmm, maybe I should check the weather report before I say that too loud!

Why I hate washing the girl's cloths!

Last week I washed Abby's coat. After washing, I put them in the dryer. This is what I was treated to when I opened the dryer. As you can see, there are black streaks EVERYWHERE! We still don't know what it was. Luckily a little 409 and some elbow grease and it came right off. At first I was scared that it was a crayon. But since there were no marks on the coats, I'm guessing it wasn't.

And I did check the pockets. Cause I have forgotten before and regretted it. Whatever this was, escaped my search. I must be more thorough next time.