A bunch of animals.....

One night the kids decided to take all, and I mean ALL of their stuffed animals and put them on mommy and daddy's bed! They made it into a "surprise" and took Bryan and I into our bedroom to see! They had a "party" and enjoyed all of their animals while laying on mommy and daddy's bed! I personally think it reminded me of the old school movie, ET... they started to fade into the stuffed animals after awhile!

Now that's alotta snow!

Daddy came home early - roads were terrible in town... he took us tubing!!! (H and K on the back.)

Kennedy wanted to be covered with snow....

Spunky attempting to cross our driveway.

In front of the big snow berm in front of our house....

This is some sort of record for snow fall, it has to be. It's also a personal record for me, posting 3 times in one day, but I couldn't resist. Take a look at the pics I took of the kiddos today. It finally stopped snowing around 11 or so this morning. The one of them in front of the big mound is right in front of our front yard, thanks to the snow plows!

A proud mommy moment....

He's reading!!!!!! I went in to tuck him in again last night and found him reading, "Are You My Mother?" I caught him reading it again, he's proud of himself as well as his mommy! Wow... it's priceless to hear your child read. (Sorry it's sideways - I thought I could turn it around...)

It's a...... SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The view from our porch, notice the garbage cans... What I just shoveled this morning...

This is our 6 foot fence....

My God, will it ever end?! I have to admit, I do love the snow fall, especially when it's coming down like this. I went out this morning to attempt to shovel, the snow went up to the top of my Sorel's!!!! NO SCHOOL TODAY!! Now, I love my class and teaching, but one more day at home with my own kiddos is a delightful little gift. I'll be making the kids go out to play in the snow if it ever lets up... Here's a recent pic of the snowfall from last night and what it's doing currently. We have at least 6 new inches of snow... can you hear me singing, "Oh, the weather outside is frightful...." WOO!!!

Well, Happy New Year everyone! This is what we are getting her today as far as weather goes. It's probably snowed about 4 inches already, and doesn't look like it's letting up anytime soon.

Happy 2009!

I had to get this shot of Devin, my nephew, who downed a whole bottle of sparkling apple cider. He wanted to break it open around 8, we told him he needed to wait closer to midnight....
Tones, trying her luck with the guitar...

Devin, belting out a few tunes.

Auntie Lisa helping Hayden with the drums....

Dan and Michelle rockin' out to Rock Band 2.

Kennedy scratched her nose and insisted she get a band-aid for it. (I need to go get more girly band-aids - that one is Spiderman!)

She's likin' the drums!

Kennedy and Sid, eating some Nerds (thanks for sharing, Sid!)

Last night for NYE, we had some friends and family over for som festivities. It was a huge hit to play Rock Band - I am totally uncoordinated at playing instruments. I even forewarned everyone to tell them so... and proved how terrible I was when I got ahold of the guitar. (I failed a few times!) K and H along with Dev and Sid made it til midnight to ring in the new year. It was a fun night and I'm glad we were able to share it with loved ones.