Silly Girl

Not a lot to say today. Took a few shots of Mia playing around being silly.

A light dusting

Last night we got another light dusting of snow. The temps were warmer today though so it all started melting pretty quickly. The kids might even make it back to school tomorrow.



Winter is really hitting us this year. It looks like we have another storm headed our way for this weekend.

An Award!

A while back I received an award for my blog from Merlot. It was such a nice surprise and I started to do my part and pass it along when kids happened. As with all good intentions, I meant to come back to it and forgot and forgot and forgot. But I didn't forget totally!

So here I am and here are the rules:

1. To accept the award, you must post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted you the award, and a link to their blog.

2. Pass the award on to approximately 10 other blogs that you recently discovered, and think are great! (Mine are not necessarily recently discovered, but I love them)

3. Contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

So here I go!

1. Razing Ruth-fascinating read

A bunch of Project 365 blogs I read. I love how they chronicle the every day things.

2. 2010 Project 365-cute baby alert!

3. 365 Days of Clean-nothing like motivating yourself to make a change in your life

4. The Whole Me- for being brave enough to post so many self-portraits. I avoid the camera lens; that's why I prefer to hold the camera.

5. Project 356-2010-handsome boys, cute kitties and interesting pictures!

6. 365 Penguins-because I loved the idea and the pictures already posted and I hope she decides to start up again!

7. Lens and Pens-scrapbooking and project 365! Fun!

8. Barb's 365- I love her pictures! So gorgeous!

9. Espinoza's Love-Beautiful Family!

10. Faith, Hope & a Whole Lotta Love-again, gorgeous photographs!

Thanks Merlot and thanks to everyone who writes about and photographs and shares their lives on their blogs!

Yesterday

I just realized that I completely forgot to post yesterday. I took my pictures, but never posted them to the blog. I uploaded them to flickr, but never made it here. But I have a good excuse, I swear!

You see I received a package yesterday. And inside it, was this:

Isn't it beautiful! LOL

Charging...yes, I was a wee bit obsessed yesterday.

I really like the cover I chose. I couldn't decide what I wanted because I really didn't like the look of the elastic holding it in on most covers. I wanted something pretty, but none of the oberon covers appealed to me so in the end I went with simple and bought the Industriell cover. I love it. It smelled a little funny (new car-ish) right out of the package, but once it was aired out it was fine. I love the way the nook clips in (the newer version is even nicer than the ones in the pictures on the B&N website and it's very clean looking.

I've already been on a shopping spree and have added nineteen books to it. I bought all the Sookie Stackhouse books because I love them so much and knew I'd want to re-read them. I also pre-ordered the one that will be out in May. Then I bought a bunch of books that I've been wanting to read but couldn't get from the library. Now I just need to finish the book I'm already reading so I can really start to enjoy my Nook.

While waiting yesterday, I did take some pictures so I wouldn't be completely boring. It was a snow day again and the kids decided to paint with watercolors. Anakin decided to use the watercolors as war paint.

Also, while waiting for my package to arrive I occupied myself by tossing some bread crusts out to the birds. A cute little squirrel decided to get in on the action and I was able to snap a couple of cute pics from my front door.

February 1st

We finally got to go out and play in the snow today. The kids had a blast. This is the most snow we've gotten in a few years and today it was really packable, making for lots of fun.



I was snapping this picture while Anakin was getting ready...

to ambush his sisters. LOL

And then he turned his sights on me.

Face plant

My daffodils are growing quickly.

Ethan's Birthday

Ethan turned 11 on Friday. Today we'd planned a small birthday party that ended up even smaller as the snow we got yesterday kept his grandmother and aunt & uncle and cousins at home. We weren't going to make him wait by postponing the celebration, so we had cake and ice cream and presents with just us.

We got him two Halo block sets, a Nerf gun and bullets, a new webkinz, the terminator figure he wanted, a steering wheel for the wii, and Guitar Hero 5. He couldn't wait to start building his Halo sets.


His cake was even Halo "decorated". He couldn't decide what kind of cake he wanted and he really seemed to want some sort of "toy" on his cake after his brother had the lego block cakes that I put real lego guys on, so I just dyed the frosting to match the figures. LOL

There's nothing like licking the frosting off the candles!

Snowy Night

It snowed today. It started snowing early this morning and didn't stop or even slow down much until after the sun set. And since it's a birthday weekend in our house (Ethan's 11th) Jason and I had to run out in it for last minute party and cake supplies. Not how I wanted to spend a cold snowy day, but we got what we needed and came home.

It was so cold out and snowing so fast that the windshield wipers could barely keep up and the heaters were going full blast trying to keep the snow from freezing immediately.

It was snowing too much to go out with my camera in hand for most of the day so I decided to go on a little walk after the kids went to bed. I didn't last very long as it's very cold but the snow was beautiful. And deep. Well, at least for around here where we're lucky to get two inches of snow at a time. There were times where the snow in drifts came up to my knees almost.

I love the way snow sparkles and icicles form.

I love the way snow makes everything peaceful and quiet.

And then I love it when it melts. LOL