February 2014!  First post in forever.  It will be brief.  Very brief.  In fact, this is pretty much it.  LOL!

Visit with Steve & Karyl (and the kids)

How embarrassing that I have taken six months to post on here. I should be ashamed, I know. LOL! I'm just too busy all the time. Just got back last night from a week in CA visiting Steve and Karyl and their boys....and of course, baby Abby (see her smiling cuteness below).

Had a fun and mostly relaxing time getting extra sleep and lending a hand to Karyl. I hope I was able to relieve some of her burden for a little while. We had fun grilling out, eating yummy food, swimming, and just chilling. It was the first time I'd ever been to their house in CA so it was fun to see where they live. I wish I'd remembered to take my camera so I could have more pictures to share. Duh!

Thanks for having me!!!

Sunburn in March?

So, Taryn and I had to work a booth selling Girl Scout cookies for her troop at Wal-Mart yesterday from 9am to 12pm. It was supposed to be a nice day, high of around 78, but I didn't expect to have any problems early in the day and I thought the sun would be blocked by the building behind us. I miscalculated. The sun was shining right in our face. I conveniently had forgotten my sunglasses so I was half blind most of the time. I was sweating like a pig and spent the last hour with an empty cookie box on my head to spare me from the sun and heat.

And to top it off, I got a nasty sunburn on my arms, where the v-neck t-shirt was open, and on my face. I am as pale and white as they come. I should have run inside and bought some sunscreen. Who gets sunburned in March? Ugh!

Lazy day...snow day.

After posting pictures of the snow, here's pictures of the kids lounging. Ian, as is typical, retreated to his room. But Taryn and Harrison sat down in the game room to watch a movie together...rare peace that was short-lived.


My little angel.....Smile Taryn!

He loves to ham it up for the camera. That is a better smile than the grimace I usually get.

SNOW DAY!!!

So, already this year we had school canceled twice for snow. Both days made me very mad because there was hardly any snow as you can see from the pictures below. Yes, these pictures are from the last day they actually canceled school here for weather. It was ridiculous. I believe it was February 4th, which was my birthday, as I was very unhappy to have kids home all day when I thought I might get to relax a bit.

Now, these are pictures I took this morning of the snow. I'd say we got a little over three inches maybe. Certainly not the upwards of eight inches they had predicted, but I could see them canceling school for this as they don't plow down here. In any event, the kids are home again and driving me crazy!

The first picture is the house across the street as viewed from my front door.

This is a picture of up the road taken from my front porch.

Taryn's Christmas program

The first graders at Taryn's school got to participate in a Christmas program on December 2nd. They got to wear their pajamas and sing songs, dancing and clapping, and swaying to the music. The only pictures I could get were while they were all sitting prior to beginning since we sat too far away from the action.


She was having a ball. I can see why she is always saying she wants to be a singer or be a movie star. She loves to be on stage and the center of attention.

Avast ye mateys!

I took these pictures of Harrison while we were at Taryn's school for her Christmas program. He was hamming it up for the camera. His pirate look was hilarious.

Then there's his finger on the mouth, contemplative look:

And finally, the talk to the hand look:

What a clown!