King Of The Hill....

Their Daddy is the best and funnest daddy, I think because he still thinks like a child in terms of play, that makes him fun.. Every year he snowblows all the snow into one big pile so the boys can play King of the Hill and OF COURSE every boy the in the neighborhood wants to come to the Burow household, not so good sometimes....

Making Fun forts, this is small in comparison to the amount of snow we got after this..

the mound is much bigger now, but this was the first round of snow, you can see how tall it was compared to Zach..

ahhhh.... everyone stuck inside their little homes, warm and toasty until you have to plow your way out to get toilet paper.....=)

Creations By "Burow Boys Designs"

Milky the cat jester...she looks thrilled huh..

Being bored can cause many of things, like having the need to make green ice cream creations..

Nick's frog on a log, or maybe it's a mouse on a log.. Call it what you want, it's cute....

This is definitely a mouse on a log or possible a bear on a log.. Call it what you want, it's cute..

Zack's spongebob, Nick's Bob the Tomatoe, Josh's military man, Zack's not sure and Nick's candle holder far right. it has leaves on it , he made it for mommy.

the new one is Patrick, on the back side is Spongebob. See Zach is a genius and creative...

This is mom's Ghoulish singing chicken salad sing "oooooohhhhh" for my special Halloween meal.

the snow was so heavy and compact, nick was able to make a solid chunk for his igloo.

Zack's cute mousy looking snowman..

I came home from a woman's meeting and found these along with the MESS...

Zachariah's 10th Birthday...!!!! Wow....

My Little Guy is getting BIG.. Zach turned 10 today... He is such a special, creative, fun, loving, caring, sensitive young guy.. He makes our household soooo interesting and alive.. No doubt God gave him a unique and warm personality.. There are so many qualities to be admired about him.. He is very giving, sensitive to correction by Mom and Dad, and God. He makes everything silly or puts his work to a song...

Here he is with Milkshake, she looks thrilled huh.....

Another quality about Zack is how he makes up his mind and KNOWS EXACTLY what he wants..Here he saw this flipping through one of my magazine, cut it out and asked that on his birthday, I make him this for breakfast.. An egg star made with toast and sausages.. It was very cute, the other two boys got planets, but he was the Star of the day...

Did I say he knows exactly what he wants, sometimes, I can deliver, sometimes he doesn't know what he's asking.. He wanted angel food cake from cub with white frosting for his birthday.. Easy enough, no cake decorating and just candles.. Wow. I got lucky on that one...

This was a Lego Birthday party we are about to have in a few days, since his birthday fell on Thanksgiving weekend as it always does.. We got him a star wars lego set and he built it in one day.. Zach said, " I wish they would make lego sets harder" I'm thinking with the amount I just paid for that , I agree.....

This cake if for the birthday party that we had on the 30th of November for his "Lego Party". We had 9 little boys running around playing games and high on Sugar.. Again, Zack wanted Angel food cake with white frosting, I added the edible legos to it.. He even picked out the candy letters.. He is so easy to please... (atleast as far as cakes go)

Did I say that Zack knows exactly what he wants, he planned this party with me and get this, he even hand picked the candy and prized for the goody bags.. He said, "Mom, I don't want all the boys to get the same thing, I want to pick out each gift for each boy" so we went to party store and he spent an hour picking out what each friend would want.. I think he is really saying he wants his own identity and not always get what Josh and Nick have.. I picked up on that little comment as a mom..Proud of myself.. Here the boys are about the dive into a 1000 legos and more filled with candy..A sort of "scavenger lego candy hunt "

Here the boys played lego candy walk.. I would play music, stopped the music and whoever landed on the number I picked out of got to reach into the prize basket and pick a prize..

Here they had a pile of lego given to them and had a limited amount of time to build something creative, whoever made the biggest, most creative, most unique etc. won a prize. .they all made wonderful creations and won something...

The last game we played was pin the lego man on the red brick on the wall.. This is Nick trying.. just a little bit off huh...=)

Here you can see several boys were NOT so close...They had a blast at Zach's party.. The night flew and at the end, it still makes me cry.. Mom, " I am sad the night went by so fast and now it's over for another year.." Not so, we have Nick's in two weeks. Not the same mom.." All the boys talked about how fun it was, and all the little boys were sad when their mom's came to pick them up, this is all because Zach is so creative and fun..

Opening Gifts..

Josh Leslie on the left.. He really enjoys the boys and they enjoy him.. They enjoyed all their friends that night..

Our Trip to Cable, Wisconsin and Lake Superior

Here is a cabin up north in Wisconsin that our friends let us borrow, it was an amazing cabin, tucked deep into the wood, on a wonderfully , quiet lake.... Thank God for the Saldins and their kindness to let us use it..

There was no TV and so the whole weekend, we had to be creative and play music and board games, it's what I imagined the Colonial people dealt with , aside from the fact, that we had some electricity, but primitive for us..

This is the loft upstairs where the boys slept, they climbed a very high and skinny ladder to get up there, but they loved being upstairs..

Here is Nick one day rowing a kayak by himself, he was very good and a natural at it..He really enjoyed going way out in the middle of the lake with his brother.

Here Zack and Nick were playing "Guess Who" and thoroughly enjoying it.. It is 7:00 am ;)

All weekend, we looked for signs that captured our names, we found only a few.. this one is Zack's middle name and he was sooooooooooo excited to find it. It is not a common name..

Here is the restaurant and lake area, we rented a boat from them for the day and toodled around and saw loons, eagles and all sorts of fun wildlife...

Josh was in his glory on the boat.. I think this was one of the highlights of his trip.. he LOVED being on the boat and going as fast as it could,, mommy was not so thrilled....=)

Here we were that close to an Eagle, my camera does not do it justice.. We got even closer, but I cannot find the closeup we took.. VERY cool..

Zack enjoying the boat ride...

Nick was so excited to be on the boat ride as well. He enjoyed putting his hand in the water as the boat was going fast and seeing what he could catch in the water along with Zack..

Josh got to drive the boat, the highlight of his trip...

Here Chris is relaxing while the boys dive into the 50 degree water and search for rocks...This is the lake we were off of, within a 100 feet or so from the cabin, very cool, very relaxing..
Mommy and Zack kayaking... Yes, I did it..PROOF... I did it..

Zack kayaking and enjoying somewhat the lake and all the beauty...

Dad, hanging out and enjoying the peace.. We were not dressed for Kayaks, as we had NO idea that the cabin had them at our disposal, OH well, we still enjoyed them, and had the lake to ourselves
Here Nick and Zack are playing CandyLand first thing in the morning, like I said "No TV"It was weird to be back in Nicolet County where my dad was a Forest Ranger..
On a GeoCache, we found this huge boulder, amongst a very busy road of hunters.. it was a bit unerving..

The boys at Lake superior on a freeeeeeeezing day, they didn't care, all they wanted was to wade in the water and play.....burrrr

Josh heading out along the walkway with food to feed the seagulls, he just fell in and got wet.=)

Here again, the boys are playing in Lake Superior on a cold day, but they don't care, it was fun..

A veiw from the Hotel that Chris surprised us with on the last night of our trip. I had no idea that he was off for Columbus Day and so we stayed in Ashland, WI for the night, right on Lake Superior, it was so quite and the waves were so relaxing... Oh to be there now...

The View behing us off our balcony at the Hotel in Ashland..Pictures do not give it justice...

Nick on the way home, all snuggled in amidst all the sleeping bags..

Zack in a fishing picture at a fish hatchery on Lake Superior..

Josh...

Nick in the same shot..

Here we found a restaurant that had Nick's Name, we are still in search for the rest of the family, maybe next vacation, we will find all our names....