Ok so January went by quite quickly I took the boys to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks we went with some friends and took them to pizza ranch 1st it was quite a cheap evening as kids eat free at the pizza place on tuesdays and it's only $3 a person at the movies so cost a lot less than it usually would. Both boys loved the movie and Alfie also got the soundtrack for Christmas so he loves dancing round the house to their songs.
Josh has started with his swimming lessons again which he enjoys although so far this session he's only had 1 lesson as the weather has made it pretty difficult to go anywhere but he's got 1 on saturday fingers crossed.

Josh and Cody playing on the huge snowpile that the

snow ploughs have piled between us and next door.

The weathers been pretty terrible there's snow everywhere Josh isn't going to be finishing school when he should of done because he's had too many snow days so they now have to make at least 3 days up so far. I can't wait until all this snow has melted the boys love it but it's pretty impossible to get out the doors downstairs has snow half way up it and the gardens too deep to go into think Alfie would disappear completely if he went out the back lol.

The drive after Ben worked hard to shovel all the snow off it.

We have about 3 times that amount piled up alongside the drive now.

Josh also had a basketball clinic that was organised through the scouts. The day he was meant to go to it his swimming lesson got cancelled because the weather was so bad we'd had freezing rain then it snowed on top so the roads were quite dangerous to drive on. Anyway Ben took the boys and I decided I'd stay home and sort their clothes and toys out while they was away apparantly once he got to the interstate (motorway) the roads were fine and they were ok down in Sioux Falls so they had a really good day out and didn't get home till after 11 so I had 2 very tired boys the next day :-).

Joshua getting ready to start his display at school.

Josh did a basketball display at school also I did video it but haven't worked out how to put it on here yet although I did work out how to post pics so I'm getting there slowly.

Alfie keeps asking my when he can go to school maybe he's getting fed up of his mum for company anyway he asked if he could start pre-school or printer school as he calls it not sure he'll be too excited when he realises he has to learn and it isn't a play place he keeps asking what sort of slides they have there so maybe he's got a shock to his system coming next year :-)

I still can't get used to the fact he won't start school until he's nearly 6 I think he'll be driving me up the wall by this point especially as pre-school is only 2 afternoons per week it drives me daft that they don't have anything for kids Alfie's age here no toddler groups nothing. They do a reading morning at the library but everytime I take him to 1 of Joshua's reading nights at school he causes destruction so not sure that would be an option. Ben did take him to soccer classes in Madison which is at least 30mins away but he spent most of his time on his knees haha. I'll have to keep looking and hopefully come up with something to occupy him.

Alfie at the sledding hill.

Anyway that's all for now will try to update again as soon as possible.

xxxx