Go Hop On Pop

When I asked what I should take a picture of today, Aubrey piped up and said my room…so… here is Aubrey’s Room

Before we left Dayton Emma entered a writing contest.  She won third place and $100.  They held a dinner and award ceremony last week for the winners but we were unable to attend but they were kind enough to send Emma her awards and the most important part her check.  She’s going to open a new account and save it.

By midnight we were without power, and temperatures were falling.  In Nevada we had ourselves a little heater and propane.  We weren’t allowed to take our propane on the truck that moved our stuff, so we ignorantly thought we could run to Wal-Mart for some propane, only thousands of others had the same idea.  No propane for us.  Here is Hallie napping in her coat, with lots of other layers on.  When the going got rough I got wimpy and in a very unattractive way, I whined and demanded heat and electricity.  I’m not as tough as I thought.  Guess what we are buying with our tax refund, never thought I’d be excited to say I spent a thousand bucks on a generator before.  I guess I learned a lesson the hard way this week.  Pity was taken upon me and a ward member loaned us their generator.  I must have learned my lesson quickly because our power was restored and there are  people around us without power.  Glad I’m a fast learner.

This was the beginning of the fun…

Mother nature, coated everything in ice, let the record show I was unimpressed and maybe even mocked this so called storm a bit.  Fine I decided to take a picture of the little ice coating the bush up front, and thought they cancelled school for this?  Mother Nature heard my disrespect and decided to teach me a lesson.

Aunt Molly is visiting with us.  The kids love her, and have been enjoying her company.  I love that they love so quickly, Aubrey, Alyssa, and Hallie don’t remember ever meeting Molly, but from the moment she got in the car it was Aunt Molly this, Aunt Molly that…

One of the benefits of having an acre for a back yard, more snow than we know what to do with.  Down side is mowing it this summer.  I’m hoping to get catch a picture of the deer that roam in our backyard this week.

Alyssa was more than ready to learn to write.  I probably put it off longer than I had to, but man when they are ready, it comes so easily.  We’ve been working for 3 weeks now and she has mastered her name.

Tanner finally finished one of his Christmas presents today; Harry Potter, The Weasley House.

Danny’s 37th birthday.  Danny loves Mexican food so I made him some Taquitos.  Emma asked me if she could make some homemade salsa for his birthday. I also made up some black beans in the crockpot.  Alyssa helped me make a carrot cake, and Aubrey the frosting.  Danny got a new cell phone and some shoes.  Most of all we just had a good time giggling and being together.

Oh and I missed day 24, looks like it’s a once a week thing, I’ll work on that.