Steven and Chrystal Tandberg Family: Is this Virginia?

March 18, 2009

Is this Virginia?

The first week of March was a surprise. We got six inches of snow, basically overnight. They were out of school for 3 1/2 days, even though the roads were drivable by the second day. When Steve went to the grocery store to get milk, he got the last gallon of milk. Everyone had panicked! But Mariah loved it! It was pretty exciting, I didn't think she would get a chance to play in the snow out here.

We weren't very well equipped to play in the snow. I was wearing regular shoes and Mariah didn't have any snow pants. But we still had fun.

We made a sled by putting a swim tube inside a big black trash bag. It turned out to be a great sled!

Our first Virginia snowman!

Maraih's very first snow angel!

Lylah even got bundled up to play in the snow!

We got a little cold in the snow.

Lylah loved playing in the snow!

Mariah loved our first Virginia Snowwoman, her name was Frostina.

Doesn't she make a nice addition to our family?

4 comments:

Heidi Michelle said...: oh my mercy! Your kids are so incredibly cute! And I guess you and Schteve are cute too! But in a totally different way! Love ya cuz!; March 19, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Jessie said...: Yeah, I am so glad you updated your blog! I can't believe how old Mariah is getting. When you left she was still a little baby. I really like your valetine's tradition and other family pictures.; March 19, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Skylar and Lauren said...: cute.cute.cute...Belle loved watching mariah out there! I think she was jealous...but she just would've wanted to crawl through the snow-can't have any of that!; March 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM
julie Tandberg said...: So fun. I see pictures for our winter months on the family calendar. Love Mom T; March 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM

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Mariah says the darndest things...

Mariah certainly has interesting designations for things. Today she asked me for clean milk. I was getting Lylah some of her rice milk and evidently Maraih didn't want it. She pointed to the regular 1% milk and said that was clean milk. I asked her why it was clean, she told me, "because I said it was!" I really don't know where she got that!

At dinner Mariah told me she wanted dry water. I asked her what dry water was (after I could stop chuckling behind my hands) and she said water that came from our glass pitcher was dry water. I never quite figured out why that was dry water, although we do usually put ice cubes in it when we use the pitcher. hmmm... dry water...

The other day Mariah asked me for kid beans. At first I thought she wanted green beans because she loves them and could eat a whole can by herself. But she didn't want those. I eventually found out that she wanted kidney beans. Lylah likes to eat kidney beans, straight from the can and Mariah was jealous and wanted some.

We use sliced cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, now Mariah calls that cheese "girl cheese."

One of my favorite things Mariah said was about a year ago. She came to me with a very concerned look on her face, "Mommy why doesn't the table have clothes on?" I had taken the tablecloth off and hadn't put another one on yet and she was worried about it.

When Lylah was a couple months old she got a hold of Mariah's hand and tried to put it in her mouth. Mariah laughed and said, "Mommy, Lylah is trying to eat the elbows on my hand!" Now if that is not a good way to descibe knuckles, I don't know what is!

Steven was trying to help Mariah learn how to catch the ball. He would throw the ball and she would look at him and miss it. He told her to keep her eye on the ball. She gave Steven a funny look and literally put her eye on the ball. Needless to say, we both started laughing.

We went hiking last week on Steven's day off. We were just getting going up a hill into the trees when Mariah turned to Steven and said, "Daddy I want the car." I didn't realize we were raising such a city girl. Looks like we need to get back out west soon!