SNOW DAY!!

You might have heard that we had snow last Sunday. Matter of fact, although it only snowed on Sunday and Monday, there's still some on the ground and rooftops. These pictures were taken Sunday afternoon.

Uh, Texas kids don't have need for gloves as a rule...so we improvised....

See our snowman? Subvet says we had bad snow, it was too dry for making snowmen....

So we had to taste it to see if it was too early for snow! Sonshine decided it needed sugar....

And while it was too dry for snowmen, it was okay for snowballs........which of course means we had to have a Snowball Fight!!

Good times!

by the way, the high on Sunday is 53, low 42 with a 50% chance of rain.......

round here we enjoy our winter while we can! ;-)

about those teeth.....

My Aunt Betsy posted this on my facebook page:


I'm surprised it took so long to find the teeth!! HaHaHaHa!!!! You'd be surprised at what your Aunt Sheryl and I found cleaning out Mom and Dad's house. We thought we'd share the wealth so to speak. I knew you would probably keep the buttons and stuck them in there.


Bets has always been known as the family prankster!!

Sheryl's contribution to the facebook conversation was:

Hey that's silver in them thar teefs... Times are hard Missy, pick out the silver!!!

or not, thanks anyway.

and if you'd like to know where this sense of humor came from...go here.....then follow the links at the end of that post....
Love you Aunt Betsy and Sheryl!!


Oh yeah....and if you followed the link to this post and were wondering...my answering maching currently says
"We're busy chasing children, leave a message and we'll call you back."

my cell says
"Hello, I'm busy herding hooligans today, please leave a message and I'll call you back."

I'm part of this family too you know!
You may call it odd.....to us it's our Legacy.

the ODDEST thing I've ever seen!

You may remember that awhile back I received an inheritance from my Grandmother.

Well, tonight I needed to fix this....

So I went looking through this....

To find this.....

But I did NOT expect to find this....

Which did indeed contain THIS.....

Anyone got any ideas why Grandmother'd have TEETH stored in her buttons???

nah, me neither...

Goals!

yes, we're polishing our hard hat!

So, now that I'm done working for a few days it's time to make some GOALS!!

1) run errands

2) go to the GYM!

3) repot my 2 new Christmas Cacti - but I may wait till they stop blooming to do that.

4) make 2 baby blankets for my friends that are due in April

5) get started on my sister's housewarming quilt.

6) begin quilting my Mommie Quilt.

Sonshine got spacers yesterday at his first ever ORTHODONTIST appointment!!!

He's sooooo excited! He can't wait to get "purple bracelets"!!! He'll be in and out of appliances and braces for the next 6 years. So I hope his excitement lasts awhile.....a LOOONG while.
Look for pictures in about a month.

The orthodontist had 2 skulls in her office, one named Sir Skullywood and the other named Mr Bone Jangles. Sonshine had a blast holding the skull during the visit.....then he turned it upside down and was playing with the spring that holds the jaw on....

"Excuse me! this skull makes a good musical instrument!" he says while scratching his nail across the spring.

hahahaha, who knew?

Happy New Year!

I'm working on another blog post....

in the meantime I have a couple things to share.

Y'all asked me where the picture was of our Advent Calendar poster from this year.

In the center at the bottom you can see a bit of Sonshine's snowman, lean your head to the left and you can see Gator's Christmas tree and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and if you lean your head to the right while using your imagination you can almost see the 3 or 4 orange dots that Sugars says are Chrismas lights. (I had them all color the poster at the same time sitting around the end of our kitchen table.)



I started off the year by working. Thurs, Fri, Sat nights, and this week I'll work Mon, Tues, Wed. (yes, you counted right, that's 6 out of 7 nights straight)

So last night, while Subvet was off at Mass and shopping was my first real time with the kids this year.....

The kids and I used our time to pack up all our indoor Christmas decorations. And I've gotten into a declutter and rearrange mood lately. So we're also moving some of our pretty's around and getting rid of some stuff too.

Once all the ornaments and lights were off the tree each kid gave it a hug and said "I love you Christmas Tree! See you next Christmas." to it before I disassembled it and packed it up.

To "celebrate" Sonshine and I conducted an experiment.

We put a glass (plastic fortunately...) of water in the freezer and left it for the night.

When he got up at FOUR THIS MORNING....all he wanted to do was check on that glass!!

Well, we found out that water will indeed freeze into ice overnight...and that it gets bigger! Big enough to break our glass!! So we set it in the sink and waited, once the ice had melted enough to come out of the glass we decided to continue our experimentation....

We concluded that ice is COLD and WET...

That it slides across our concrete kitchen floor really fast.

And that it melts in the microwave!!

heh heh heh.

Wonder what we'll experiment with on Thursday night when Subvet's off at his meeting??