snow day!!

It snowed in the middle of the night and we have a nice coating of snow!

The snow made Lily super hyper and spastic.  She was running around the yard and the deck like a mad woman.

  

Daisy Mae was not loving the snow.  She's a princess and hates to have wet paws.

I love this picture of her looking down the stairs!

Lily sat on the stairs and watched the action down below.  She's a great babysitter because I was cold!  I didn't want any part of being out in the snow.  I got my fill of that in Ohio.

The kids decided to sled down our sidewalk in the backyard.  

I have to admit it looked fun until the snow and ice melted.  Then the sliding wasn't going so well and they had to move onto another fun activity.

Like building a snow ghost with a pinecone 'bow'.  Ha!  Silly girl!

Hayden found a fun pine cone treasure.  It was pretty cool!

After lunch they headed back out for some sledding in the front yard.  They made tons of snowballs with plans of tossing them at people as they walked down the street, but no one ever walked by.

We had a fun first day of snow here in our new house in our new state!

spring fever and barefeet

When we lived in Texas I would get spring fever towards the end of February.

I would be ready for March to bring in warm and spring like temps.  This year after having lived in Ohio for the past two years, I am ready for Georgia to show me an amazing spring right now, not at the end of the month.  I want warm sunlight streaming through my kitchen window as soon as possible.  I saw the forecast though and it's going to be cold again this weekend and next week. :( 

We got a glimpse of AMAZING weather this weekend.  

I moved to Georgia with high hopes of warmth, but so far it's been cold.  Nothing like the Ohio cold, but still cold.  I keep reminding myself if I were in Texas it is cold there also.  It's cold all over the US right now.  That doesn't change the fact that  I can't wait to sweat again.  I got in the swimming pool 2 times when we lived in Ohio, because to me it never got hot enough to swim.  

I hope Georgia doesn't disappoint.  I have some high expectations.  Hahahaha!

Saturday we walked to the park to play.

{street walker selfie}

The kids were so excited to be outside running and cart-wheeling.

Look at those bare feet!  

Hoooray!

Today we walked to the end of our street and down a nature path to the lake.  Yes, I said lake.  We are near lakes again.  In Ohio we were surrounded by rivers.  Now we have a lake really close to us.  I had no idea about this fun path until my neighbor told me about it.  It's amazing!

Right now the water level is very low, but soon they will open the gates and we will have water to splash and play in.  Lake access so close to home is a fun thing!

Hayden loved throwing rocks and sticks into the creek.  

We followed the creek all the way to the lake area.

All this area will be covered in water.  How cool!!

After our nature hike to the lake we decided to head to the park again.  We had hopes of kicking around the soccer ball, but the kids just wanted to run and stick their toes into the playground sand again like they did yesterday.  I can't blame them.  Soccer will be in full swing in a couple of weeks.  I'm happy they just want to relax.  

Dad and I enjoyed watching them play a fun game of tag!  We loved having the warm sun baking our skin.  I think this little bit of sunshine is enough to remind us of what is to come when spring has finally sprung here in our new state!

Dreaming of spring

I think our pups are getting just as tired of winter as we are. I'll catch them laying on the couch gazing out the window!

We're getting more snow today and over night tonight! I hope it melts away soon and the trees start budding!

Spring is my favorite!


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I got my learn on

Nine things I have learned from being snowed in:

1. Sports bras are not flattering. I have been alternating the four sports bras I own the last few days.  Gary took a picture of me playing checkers with Layla. It was quickly deleted. Yuck. I had a uni-boob.  Lucky for you guys you can't see the uni-boob in the picture below....just the deep look of concentration on my face.

2. It is so hard to potty train a puppy when it is 8 degrees outside. Before the cold snap we had him trained to go to the door and wait for us to let him out.  Who wants to be let outside in the coldest weather ever? Not him. Let's just say my new steam cleaner got lots of use. Stinkin' puppy will go on the edge of a pee pad. Why can't you aim your rear end at the middle of the thing dude?

3. When I am bored I like to cook and eat. I look for reasons to eat, I feel I need to try a new recipe, or sample/taste this or that.   I would cook dinner early to snack on it, and then eat again at dinner time. Every day while snowed in this business went on. Hello extra pounds.  We all ate with reckless abandon the entire time we were snowed in as if it would keep us warmer.

4. The first trip to the grocery store after a storm is chaos. The grocery store was packed. The checkout lines were 5 shopping carts deep.  There were no eggs in sight, and good luck getting a loaf of bread. It was bad. Not to mention I was shopping with my stomach and eyes. I bought things we don't normally keep in this house. Processed junk....Little Debbie snacks, Doritos, peanut M&M's.  I let this foolishness happen.  Now I am going to have to find some self control.

5.  I learned that I let my kids win sometimes.  While playing games I would let Layla win.  I hate to get beat, especially by a 5 year old.  She talks trash, but if she loses she will want to play again and again and again.  There are only so many games of checkers you can stand to play in one day. 

6. Hayden's feet never get cold.  I would insist he keep socks or slippers on when is was below freezing outside.  He is so wild and crazy the socks/slippers fall off.  I spent half my time putting them right back on.  Each time I would re apply is socks his feet were hot.  So,I just gave up.  Little Mr. Hot Feet. I wish that were the case for me. My feet are always ICE cold.

7.  I learned that I love my family.  We always have so much fun together.  I love the option of getting out of the house though.  Knowing we were stuck and couldn't leave was hard.  Gary works from home and I stay home with the kids.  Any chance we get, we go out as a family.  Whether it be to grocery shop, go to the park, or out to eat at a restaurant.  We like getting out as a family.  We realized that we really like each other, but we like each other more when we can get a good mix of at home time, and out and about time. Make sense?

8.  My husband is a big kid.  He had just as much fun, if not more than the kids...playing in the snow.  See him sliding in the snow as if he were sliding into home base.  He taught the kids how to make perfect snow balls.

9.  I don't want to wish away or speed up any season of my life, but I AM READY FOR SPRING.  That is the most important thing I learned.

Happy Super Bowl Sunday :)

wrong predictions

Monday night after gymnastics we sat down like we do every night and had dinner as a family.  After we were done eating we started talking about the snow heading our way.  Everyone at the table gave their predictions of how much snow would be falling. 

And this is how much snow they thought we'd get.

We were all kinds of wrong.  We had now idea we'd be snowed in for 4 + days.  I know you, my blog readers are getting just as tired of me posting snow pics as I am of taking them.  I am tired of posting about the snow, but we are consumed with it.  We have nothing else going on right now.

Oh how I wish we did though :)

I took these pictures during the few minutes the sun was out.  Hopefully the kids will be able to play outside for a little while this afternoon.  We have to do something to blow off some steam. 

The good news...I am caught up on laundry.  All we have been wearing = PJ's.  Every night I throw a load of PJ's in to wash, and then right after I toss in a load of towels.  Easy peasy.

This my friends is a picture of our patio last night before the snow.

Solid.Sheet.of.Ice.

Slide slide slippity slide :)

Watch your step there pooch.

Speaking of pooch.  Our dogs are cray cray right now.  Bogey is so stir crazy. 

He decided to climb the couch.  The kids were laughing hysterically at me as I was shoooing him down.

His day is not complete if he isn't getting on Harley's nerves.

  She doesn't like him at all...there isn't a hair on her body that likes him. 

She growls at him non stop. 

DRAMA!

Bogey fell on her and it got really dicey around here.

I was afraid fur was about to fly, but everyone is A-ok.

Enough of me blogging about my goofy dogs. I hear kid noises.

Sounds like nap time is over.  I must get back to the duties of motherhood.

Happy Friday!

Did you know that cabin fever is a real word?

It is in the dictionary.  If you click over to dictionary {dot} com you can see for yourself.  But just in case you don't want to, I put the definition below....

cabin fever -- noun


Distress or anxiety caused by prolonged confinement in a small or remote place, as in We've been snowed in for a week and everyone has cabin fever . Originating in the West, this term at first alluded to being penned up in a remote cabin during a long winter but has since been applied more broadly. [Late 1800s]


After being cooped up in our house since Monday I felt the need to blog about our sickness.  I am in no way mad or upset about having to hang out with my family.  I love them all very much.  I also love to get out of the house with them very often.  I like to shop, eat in restaurants and explore the outdoors.  Due to the fact that our driveway is a solid sheet of ice, we haven't left our house.  Schools have been closed for 4 days...I'm sure that has never happened.

And I just got a tweet...from our local meteorologist.  We should get about 3 inches of snow tomorrow. 

Joy!

The only good thing about all this business...I grocery shopped and we have plenty of food.  I didn't shop for the storm, I just bought all of our meals for the week.  So, all we are doing is eating and cooking and playing and eating some more.  What else is there to do??  Just to liven things up, we did order pizza tonight.  I ate 4 pieces. I think I have heartburn.

I am turning on my Thursday night TV shows is about 5 minutes.  Thank goodness they are on.  I have been looking forward to them all day!

Friday morning ramblings

Let me just start the random flow of nonsense with this: I am done with winter germs.  I am ready for spring days filled with playing in the backyard.  I need this khaki grass filling my front and backyard to be green again.  I need to plant some flowers and hear the water sprinkler watering the lawn.

I feel like I can't keep the germs away.  No matter how hard I try.  We do take vitamins, but I honestly don't think it matters. I am a super stickler about hand washing.  But we still get more boogers after clearing up boogers. Sheesh!

I do love the sun.  And quite honestly I miss it, but I spent a great deal of time on Tuesday cleaning my house.  Right now as I type this the sun is streaming in the window and making my house appear dusty.  I think I need to close the blind.

I was 9 years old in fourth grade 25 years ago when the Challenger took off and then exploded.  I will never forget that day.  We only got to watch TV in our classrooms for a few minutes in the morning.  Remember Channel 1?  If not-- it was a brief educational program that played for about 5 minutes. We generally watched it to start our school day.  This day 25 years ago the TV was on all day long.  We couldn't believe what was happening as we sat glued to the news coverage.

Gary just informed me that he stayed home from school that day.  He had a broken arm and missed school.  He told me he laid on the couch watching the coverage. At first he thought it was a movie.

And now we are having a debate about Channel 1.  He doesn't think Channel 1 was around back in 1986.  I honestly thought we watched it every day back then. But my brain could be failing me.

Layla is too big for a night light in my opinion.  But I still let her have one. She used to have a "Twilight" ladybug.  It is broken.  It is one of the best things ever.  It has a timer, so it turns off during the night. It is perfect. But broken. So we have been trying out various night lights.  The one we tried last night put a shadow on her desk chair. She said she didn't like the shadow...it made her feel like she was in jail. Huh? Cause you know all about jail at 5 years old.

Hayden set up his train set bright and early this morning while watching {surprise} Toy Story II. He was having a fun time until Bogey ran into the room and snatched up a piece of train track and ran off.  I finally found him under my bed with splinters of the wooden track on the floor.  While cleaning the mess I got a splinter in my pinkie finger.   I bet he has splinters in his little puppy gums.

I love Chic-fil-a.  I can't get enough of it.  I like my chicken sandwich with extra pickles, mayo and ketchup. [just in case you want to grab one for me] The sandwich is so good.  I wish I could eat that 410 calorie sandwich every day, but you know...our household budget and my calorie counter wouldn't like that...boooo!

Today for now we are all feeling good and it is supposed to be 70 degrees this afternoon.  We need this high temperature day!!!  I can't wait to play outside.  Friday after school seems to be so hard for Layla after a long week.  She is always so tired. Hopefully the fresh air will invigorate all of us.

In other news...so far I am loving the new little green steamer I posted about earlier this week.  It is handy dandy!! It does a swell job.

This morning while checking my twitter feed I saw a tweet saying "if you need something to be grateful for check your pulse."  I thought it was a great quote for today.  I told Gary about it.  He said, "I did check my pulse and it is too high, I'm about to have a stroke. I should make a doctor appointment." Well allrighty then. See what I have to put up with y'all! 

BTW...his pulse is fine.  I wonder why are children are so sarcastic sometimes.  Gary and I are both a bit over the top in the sarcasm department.  And yes I do realize the pictures I posted really don't go with the things I'm saying.  I'm feeling random. :)

Happy Friday!