Feeding the ducks by the frozen river

Parker loves feeding the ducks down by the Snake River here in Idaho Falls. He asks for it all the time, and usually I have to say no because we don't have the car, or it's snowing/raining, or it's just too cold. On Saturday we decided to brave the cold and we took him to feed the ducks. It was about 28 degrees when we went (BRRR!), but he was so excited I just couldn't say no. We bundled up every inch of us that we could and took bread with us to feed the ducks. Madisyn really likes the ducks and is mesmerized by them when we go. We got a picture of the Idaho Falls Temple and falls when we went and it will show you just how cold it's been here.

The kids by the river

Even with the falls going the water still froze!

I have a few random pictures and video over the last two weeks that I've taken, so here they are.

This is another of Parker's birthday presents, this one from his Grandma & Grandpa Lewis. It's a cool treehouse with people and animals, and there's a lot of stuff he can do with it. He involves his new dinosaurs with it too, of course. He loves it!!

Madisyn loves trying to sit in anything that she can. In this picture she dumped out Parker's dinosaurs so she could sit in the container.

Parker has been obsessed with the movie "Cars" lately. If any of you are familiar with it, his favorite part is the tractor tipping scene where Lightning McQueen and Mater go tractor tipping together. Well Parker acts this scene out with all of his toys, over and over again. Here he is with some of the "tractors" tipped up.

Another thing that Madisyn Loves to do is find something to put over her head to "hide", and then usually she ends up walking around the house with it over her. I don't know how she manages not to run into things, but she doesn't. She loves hiding and us "finding" her. What a nut!

When we had a baby shower here a while ago, Parker had so much fun helping put up the balloons. He thought it was so cool that he could put the balloons up without tape and all by himself. It is so fun to see him figure out things!

Another favorite of Parkers is music. Mostly we listen to Disney songs. One of his favorite songs is the "Circle of Life," but only the first part of it. He loves to sing his own version of it. So I got him to do it on video.