SNOW 2010

First off, there are TONS of pictures!!! Secondly, these are mostly pics that I put on FB (a few new). When I first woke up at 4:30 am on Saturday, January 30th, I was disappointed. We had expected there to be tons of snow when we woke up and it was only a dusting of snow on the ground and was not snowing at the time. So, we went back to sleep. When we woke up at 7 am there was at least 2 inches of snow on the ground!! We were all so excited. It was coming down in small flakes, but tons of it! It pretty much snowed ALL day long! I have never seen this much snow. By evening there was 7" of snow, with 10" drifts. It had stopped snowing by evening. But when we went to bed, Scott said it had started snowing again. I will finish that in another post...


Here are some pictures from the day (did I mention there are a TON!):



Samantha watching out the window and wondering
what all that white stuff is.



Emily and Sami all snuggled up and keeping warm.



7:15 am

7:15 am

7:15 am

11:15 am. This is pretty much how it stayed on the

bird bath. It didn't get much higher.

Ready to go outside. And yes, KA's jacket got

zipped and hood put on before going out! We

went and bought them rainboots (all we could

find) on Friday. They have on 3 layers of clothing!

Plus their jacket is a 3-in-1 jacket.

Let's go.... Look at her feet sinking into the snow!

Always have to make a snow angel!!

Em's angel.

KA


KA's angel

KA wanted to eat some snow. I was going to

make snow ice cream, but we didn't have any

vanilla :-(


Monkey See, Monkey Do

KA making a snow castle!!! The snow was too

dry to make a snowman.

Front of the house.

My feet print. Just showing how deep it is.

11:15 am

11:15 am

Warming up with hot chocolate and a snack.

KA warming up!

2nd time out pictures:

Another footprint to show how deep.

this one was on the side of the house where

the drifts were deeper.

Who is that masked man?

I have on at least 6 sweatshirt/long sleeve/ jackets!!

And I had on pj flannel pants, jeans, and sweatpants.

That is why I look like the Pillsbury dough boy!!!

This is where KA was keeping her snowballs for

the snowball fight.

Mommy's snow castle.

Cheese!

This is down the street from us and across the

street from the airport.

We don't have any kind of snowboards, so

Daddy just pulled them down (only once each

the wind was really bad away from all the houses).

Em's turn!

See those red cheeks!

Heading back home to go warm up.

New Year's Eve...

I have no pictures, but we had a wonderful evening and I wanted to at least write about it so I can remember!! We started off the evening watching a movie that the girls picked out, Hatching Pete (on Disney Channel), Scott was just glad that we didn't watch a Barbie movie!! While we were eating we at some popcorn, which is something the girls LOVE to do! After the movie and popcorn we played some games and drank hot chocolate. We played Dominoes, Connect 4, and Pretty, Pretty Princess (Scott opted out on this game). We went to bed around 11:00 so we missed ringing in the New Year, but had a great evening!! This Christmas Break has been wonderful! School starts back tomorrow, not looking forward to homework and rushing around in the mornings. I think that I am mostly caught up for now on my blogging. I do have some pics of the girls going to another tea party that I will get on here sometime in the next few days hopefully!

My Birthday

We celebrated my birthday on Sat., Dec. 19th. The girls and Scott gave me my presents then we went to eat at Outback, since we had a giftcard. It was a great day!


I got Christmas Classics Movie Set and Strawberry
Lemonade Bath and Body Works shower gel! I
knew I was getting these gifts.


But Scott surprised me with some shoes that I
had been wanting from Bass Pro Shop!!


The girls and Mommy on Mommy's b'day!!

Scott also took me out to eat on Tues. the 22nd. We went to a Japanese Steakhouse it was GREAT!!! He also was able to find the Strawberry Lemonade Bath Spray that I had wanted (he couldn't find it so that is why I got the bath gel!)!!!

Snow

On the evening of the 19th we were so excited to see snow!! It started around 5 pm. We went out and walked in it around 5:30 pm, because we figured that it would be gone by morning and at least we could say we got out in it! It didn't do much and we didn't really get to make snowballs and that is all that we have gotten, although it has been cold here.


Back porch around 5 pm.


5:30 pm ~ front yard.

Remind you of the movie "A Christmas Story"?!!

It was hard to enjoy because the wind was blowing
and the snow was hitting us in the face.

The girls walking down the street.

The next morning. This is all the snow that we got :-(

School Christmas Parties

On Friday, December 18th was the last day of school before Christmas Break. Both girls had Christmas parties. I made the cupcakes for both classes.


Christmas ornament cupcakes.


KA's class started off with decorating gingerbread cookies.


Here is KA's cookie!

Decorating some more, did not get a final picture
of her gingerbread girl.

After they decorated their gingerbread girl/boy,
they went back to make wreaths for their teacher's
presents. The wreaths were made out of medicine

bottles. I didn't get a pic. of the final product, I had

moved on to Em's class by that time.

Waiting for her turn.

Back to the lunchroom for the party. Cupcakes,
apples, cookies, cheese, and more! What a feast!

Emily's class were making ornaments, using
red and green glitter paint into a clear ornament.

Here are Emmy's ornaments.

Emily eating at her party. She just ate the cookies,
she didn't even try my cupcakes! She is really not
much for eating sweets.

Emily and her BFF, Cassie.