The best part of springtime, is getting the bikes out. For the girls, we knew that at least one would need a new bike. Emma had really struggled to keep up last summer using her little 16inch pink bike. No gears on it made it really hard for her to keep up. She'd peddle like mad to stay out front, but simply couldn't keep the pace for more than a few minutes making longer trips a pain. So she had to get something new - now the question was, would Meghan need to step up?

We pulled out Meghan's 20inch bike (that we bought last year), and Emma was able to ride no problems - but Meghan was wondering why Emma would be riding a bike the same size as hers... maybe she needed something bigger. So being a beautiful sunny Sunday, we hopped in the car and headed for Kunstadt (nice German named place...). There we saw a girl about Meghan's size getting a 24inch bike and figured - yeah it was probably time for Meghan to step up in size. So we ended up getting her a nice new turquoise bike, 18 gears, nice handbrakes and seat - will be great for her. Now both the girls have new bikes - and hopefully I'll be able to take them for some trail riding later in the spring - after most of the ice is gone...

They were so happy to get riding again - they've spent about 4 hours on the bikes in the last 2 days, even though it isn't the warmest just yet... about 5C, so you'll notice the mittens on these little kittens in the vid.

While later in Spring, we'll get to see the grass growing, leaves on the trees, flowers blooming... right now, we're in the melt-down phase. For those of you not living where snow accumulates, it means that all the snow from the winter is going away.

This is ugly because everything is dirty, mucky, wet, garbage from the winter is revealed - and the worst part - all the dog poo comes to the surface...or the snow melts down to it... whatever, it's ugly and nasty.

I think this year, we'll be using a service. Last year - Rebekah needed some fast cash, so she got to have all the fun. I know this isn't the nicest way to show Rebekah for the first time here, and I'm sure she'll hate me for it - but it's sooooooo funny... you have to see it. I promise I'll do something nice of her next time.

No, not that kind of spring cleaning - but some online spring cleaning has been done to the blog header and to the mareadmare.ca page. Emma is featured on the front page for the Spring season. Check it out, and let me know what you think. We should have some new shirt designs printed soon and the girls are looking forward to modelling them!