Snow Day!

Thursday we started getting some ice and by Friday morning it had changed to snow. We got about 4 inches of snow and the girls got to stay home. We had a few activities to pass the time for the day

A few art projects are always a hit. Katie loves to paint so she was creating her own plates and cups. I told her Aunt Joy would be proud. Her first two colors she picked were blue and orange.

The finished job

Bree working hard on her cup

Her many finished projects

After they were done with their art projects they both wanted to go outside for a little while. Here they are all bundled up.

Bree was checking out all the icicles outside, she wasn't sure of them.

Katie loved the snow..she didn't want to come in. Bree was done after about five minutes. She kept saying it was too cold and I agreed. it was so windy that day.
The girls went back outside with Dad when he got home from work. You can see how much more snow we got from the morning to the evening.

Movie Night

Last night it was just me and the girls. Chris has basketball practices with his upward teams on Tuesday night, so on this night we normally have a girls night of some sort. Last night we had a some dinner, the put on our jammies, made a bed on the floor, popped some popcorn, sliced up some apples, and popped in a movie. Shrek was the agreed upon movie, and they both agreed without any fussing. That was a miracle within itself. Normally they both pick a different movie and one of them ends up unhappy. So we spent then evening munching on our snacks and watching our movie. It was good girl time and I enjoyed the down time with the girls. Just hanging out at the house.

Sick, Sick and More Sick

Our 2010 years hasn't started off so great. Since about the second week in January somone in our house has been sick. It started off with Bree, she was sick for about a week running 103.5 fever, really bad congestion and cough. Dr. said it was just a really bad sinus infection, so he gave her some amoxicillian and that did the trick. Two days after she was better, Chris started feeling bad. He started getting the same congestion. I kept telling him to go to the dr, but like most men they want to tough it out. Well, in the middle of the night last Thursday he woke up with his ears hurt really bad. I haven't seem him in that much pain in a long time. On Friday morning he did go to the doctor and he had ear infections in both ears and on ear got so bad that it actually ruptured his ear drum on Friday, so he has been in pain all weekend and still is not feeling great even today. He was at home with me on Friday resting and feeling pretty good because he drank about 1/2 bottle of Nyquil. Then if things couldn't get more crazy, i get a phone call around 3pm from Katie's daycare saying she is running a 103 fever. So I immediately jump on the phone to her ped and ask if they can call her in some amoxicillian because I just knew she has the same junk both Bree and Chris have had. The nurse actually wanted to see Katie and fit us in at 4pm on Friday. By the time we got there Katie's fever was up to 103.5. They checked her out and she actually had an ear infection, her first in 5 years and also had the sinus stuff to. Thankfully we were able to get the meds for her so she could take them all weekend and feel better. I am the only one left standing at this point and it is truely an answered prayer. I have prayed that God just put a wall of protection around me and not let me get this stuff, as I was having to take care of everyone else since they were going down one by one. Thankfully today Katie is back to normally and Chris is getting there. His ear is still hurting but hopefully it will heal quickly for him. Whew!!! What a year so far!

Misc Pics

Here are some misc pics that I haven't had a chance to blog about in the past couple of week.

This is what happens after being snowed in for five days....they literally tried to climb the walls.

The girls got some Christmas money and gift cards to Claire's so when we were finally able to get out of the house we went to the mall and let the girls spend their money. They picked out some goodies at Claire's and then wanted to spend the rest at Build A Bear

being silly at Claire's

Bree with her puppy dog "chris"

Katie with Christmas Tree Light...yes this what she named her reindeer

Bath time...scrub, scrub, scrub.

Gotta dress our new friends

Bree got a Dora hat, scarf and gloves...she would wear these around in the house for hours just sitting and watching Dora.


Katie got Hannah Montana wig for Christmas. They both love to put the wig on. These were from the other night. Momma even tried it on but no picture of that one.

Back to Reality

Christmas is over and the New Year has begun. We had to get back to reality. We had a nice visit with my parents as they were in for Christmas. The girls got a break from school to stay home while they were here and I got a week off from work for holiday so it was nice to have a break from all of our normal schedule stuff. But as nice as it was to have the break it was nice to get back in our routine. It seems things go much smoother when we have our routine and I actually like life that way. this week the girls went back to school, all our normal church activities picked back up and of course dance classes started back this week. The girls couldn't wait to go because they had new dance clothes to wear, thanks to nana and papaw.