The Evans Family: Lately

We don't live very exciting lives. But we do try to have fun! Our cleaning lady was coming at a weird time one day so we had to get out of the house for a couple of hours. We went to get yogurt. Because what else was there to do?

Then we ended up at Boingo Bounce. Eli has been asking to go here all winter and it just never worked out. This was a perfect time for it!

One day we were bored. Eli had a Toy's R Us gift card so we went and I let him pick out a new toy. I know, just what he needed after birthday and Christmas. This is what he picked out... A new Hot Wheels track that can change into 6 different tracks. I've mastered 3 of them so far! I'm becoming quite the Hot Wheels master!

We also went swimming one day. It's been a miserably cold winter. I've been wanting to try out our local indoor pool so we loaded up one day and went. Eli had a blast! Some friends of ours met us there. Although the water was "heated" Eli still got cold. I chose to sit on the side and watch. You couldn't have paid me enough to get in that cold water!

We've made a couple of trips to the mall for lunch and shopping. You know we can't go to the mall without Eli eating Sbarro spaghetti! And he has to follow it with a cookie!

We were lucky to have semi-nice weather one day. We spent most of the day outside playing and even had a picnic lunch in the driveway!

Eli will start T-ball at the end of this month. We got him a glove and some real t-balls so he could start practicing. This should be interesting!

The same day we tried out a new brownie recipe. Pioneer Woman's dark chocolate brownies are no joke. They may just be the BEST brownie I've ever had! No lie!

You see, we enjoyed this day outside and baking brownies because we knew what the next day would entail. The next day we had freezing rain, thundersleet and snow ALL. DAY. LONG. Yes, you read that right. Thundersleet. It was pretty weird. It thundered and lightened while it sleeted its butt off. We ended up with 3 inches of sleet and 3 inches of snow on top of that. School was out AGAIN for 2 days. Our local school district has had 12 snow days so far this year.

After sitting in the house all day Sunday I had to get out on Monday afternoon. We decided to go to Fun City then out to eat. I didn't care that the roads were still snow covered. I just HAD to get out of the house.

When we got back from eating Chad decided to let Eli sled for a little bit. Yes, that is Chad pulling Eli behind his bike. Hey, you do what you gotta do when you live in a flat neighborhood and don't have a 4 wheeler.