SweetHearts Day

We are getting ready for Valentines Day here. The kids are filling out their cards for our co-op on Friday. I remember this fondly from being a kid. It was always so much fun to decorate your brown bag in school in preparation for the cards. Then walking around the desks in the classroom dropping them in to the bags, I loved it! I would look at the cards over and over. You know what I miss?! The little envelopes that they use to have to put them in. They don't make them like that anymore. I have even worked it into a school lesson with copy work for Keegan. He is having to practice writing everyones name and writing small enough to make it fit. We have 17 kids in our little group and he is only a quarter of the way through. Good thing we have a few more days.

What else on the agenda?! I am trying to put together a Valentines Day Couples Fondue for Sunday night. Three courses with a salad between the cheese and broth. You know how in your mind it looks like something out of Martha S. but in reality it won't even be close, one can dream right?!

What We've Been Up To

We get very little snow here on the SouthEast Coast. I mean we usually get a dusting here or there that will shut down the surrounding cities cause people panic. Real snow fall though seems to be elusive. Well not this year. For the first time in like 20 years we had a measurable amount of snow fall. The kids were over the moon. I however was not prepared cause you see they always cry wolf and we get nothing. So we stayed in last weekend and just enjoyed a day of snow. The kids were a motley crew because most of our snow stuff is in PA where we actually get snow.

Never the less they had a great time playing and getting soaked in the white stuff. Halfway through the day my husband asks "Where is their snow stuff?" My response was "What snow stuff? We live in the south, we usually don't get snow"

So now this summer I will be hitting the thrift stores hot and heavy finding winter wear for the just in case days we get in the winter. And if nothing else they can wear it out on colder days and stay warm.

Please note the pink snow pants on Keegan and the pink mittens on Tripp. I tried my best, that was all I could come up with. I told Keegan real men wear pink, don't worry about it.

Part of our backyard, with snow actually falling.....never happens I swear!!

This was Pipers first time in snow, she ran out on the deck and started barking at it and trying to catch it as it was falling. Crazy dog.....

Tooth Fairy

Avery had her two front teeth pulled by the dentist cause those stubborn things just wouldn't come out on their own. This is what the tooth fairy leaves every time along with the appropriate amount of money. A tiny little note from her own personal tooth fairy.....she loves it!

Love This

Love her voice and I am a sucker for harmonicas (my dad plays one) and I love when a husband and wife can make such sweet music together! The words are so beautiful and true. Enjoy!

Happy Second Birthday Piper

This little doggie has gotten a lot of face time on my blog lately. Can't help it, she's my friend. Today we celebrated her 2nd Birthday! Not that she had any idea what the day was. So we made her "pupcakes" for her big day.

They are peanut butter and carrot pupcakes(however I didn't have carrots). Frosted with a bit of cream cheese and more peanut butter.

She had one and my hubbys dog Bain had one(they are best buds) and we took two next door for her walking partners, Cody and Riley.

Needless to say, they were a hit. She licked the plate clean, and the floor and anything else she thought might have peanut butter on it.

**Of course we had to take Birthday portraits

One of Those Days

**this photo has nothing to do with my post, just hate not having a photo to share

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you should just crawl back in bed until it is over?? Well that has been today for me. I got up early to try a new class at the Y. I got there with plenty of time to spare, kids in the child watch area and ready to go. Only I walk into the fitness room to find out there is no room left....How early should I get there to be able to get a spot?? I envision a mad dash through the doors once the class ahead has finished. I was discouraged to say the least cause I was really looking forward to it. You see my hubby is away on a trip for the week and I had a terrible night of sleep. A keep the light on cause you are scared of the dark and are having anxiety kind of night. So thinking I would make a better start to the day I got up for the gym...fast forward to not being aloud to take the class I was pretty upset. So I go to the weight room only to feel very intimidated by all the large men walking around and the gong ho cardio machine users and I meekly turned and went out to gather my kids.

Okay so the gym wasn't going to work, no big deal, I'll roll with the punches. I had some errands to run anyways. I go to the homeschool bookstore to purchase the next set of books in the explode the code series for Keegan only to realize they don't open until 12, it is 10. Okay I need to go to Target so I'll do that first. Only to get to Target to find they are out of the two things of makeup I need. I get pull ups and a few items for the kids co op bags and leave. Go back to the homeschool store and wait a half hour for them to open. Go inside go straight to the section of XTC to find they too are out of what books I needed for Keegan.

I give up go home order the books on line, pay bills and now am sitting here writing this. Praise the Lord I am able to laugh at it or so help me I would cry.

Christmas Photo 2009

This is the photo that I sent as our Christmas card. I love this photo, well except that the chilazion on Tripps eye was at its peak. I am going to try and find a reasonable company to put it on canvas so I can hang it proud on our wall. I love the fact that I take my own photos, me a tripod and the self timer button. It is all so much more relaxed cause we don't feel like we are performing for someone. Amazingly it looks as if we are all looking at the same thing! Anyway....if you did not receive a card from me please know I was thinking of you!

Love

Lisa