Troubled Roads

After our winter blast on Friday all day, when I went to bed Friday night it had started to snow again and of course the temps began to fall. On Saturday morning the roads were nothing but ice there were so many freeways closed down because of multi car accidents. About 5 o'clock that morning a semi-truck lost control on the freeway and ran into the side of the activity center located in the parking lot of our church. I found out this morning at church one of the members was on his way home from work when the semi was passing him and lost control and sent him off the freeway as well, lucky no one was injured.

Winter Blast Part 2

Here we go again. We began the week with a snow storm, and we are ending the week with a snow storm. It began snowing about 6 a.m. and it snowed all day, only letting up a few times. By the time we left school, I'd say we had about another 3 inches. I made sure the date was left on the picture, this way you'll see that it wasn't monday's picture.

Winter Blast!

Well! here we go again, more snow. I do believe we got about 3-4 inches. Enough to make the morning commute messy. It was a heavy wet snow, I think it looked pretty laying on the trees and across the lines, It would look prettier if it wasn't such a nasty neighborhood.

Florida Bound

Off she goes headed back to Florida again, this time only for a week. I got this picture as she was checking her bag, she had to go inside to get her boarding pass. While inside when she wasn't looking I tried getting another picture but the camera mode changed and it came out blurry. That girl can take all kinds of pictures, but let me try to take a couple of her she says "you're being so obnoxious".

Lunar Eclipse

Alex and I watched the lunar eclipse, we went out every 20minutes to look at it. I snapped a few pictures, the only thing is I needed a zoom and a tripod. Otherwise this is what I ended up with. It was a clear night that night, but I didn't stay up to watch it all, I called it quits about 11:30

Wore Out

Today Dad took me, Diane and Lisa out to dinner with them for his birthday. After we got home I told Alex I was going next door for my daily walk. He asked when I come home can we play uno? I guess my 1/2 hour walk was too long, because when I came home I found him asleep in my bed with the uno cards beside him. We've been on winter break this week and every night he's been staying up late and I guess it just caught up with him, he just couldn't stay awake any longer.

Mike

Lisa sent me this picture today her baby. Michael in his new suit.

More Pix's

Here's just a few more pictures that I took yesterday. I have over 50 pictures to go through and decide which 2 that I want to use for my project, for the other classmates to critique. I'm having fun in the class I've decided to take part 2. It's exciting when you do a picture on your own that's when you realize your starting to get it. I know I've got a long way to go, I guess it's just practice, practice, practice.

My Pix's

Here is a picture I took with my new camera, I've been taking a class to learn how to use it. I have 3 projects to turn in and one of them is studio pictures. I had studio time today and I also asked the instructor to help me. My time was almost up when the next person came which happened to be a man from my class. He asked if I wanted him to get one of the 3 of us, so he did. I tried to hide my shirt because it has a picture of dopey on it. This is the only one of us together the rest are of Alex and Chelsea together and by themselves. I'll be posting them later when I get a chance to pick out some good ones.

Count Day

Today was our second count day, and one of our sponsors donated 3 bikes to raffle. All the kids that was at school today had their name put into a raffle. Alex was on of the winners along with another boy and girl. The bikes were all girls bikes but we kept it anyway. My friend has 2 granddaughters that might be able to ride the bike, I may give it to her. If not I'll find a little girl at school that's in need of a new bike and I'll give it to her. Until then I brought it home and put it up.

Kids Storm

Our Church had a kids program last night. They had Steve Harney come in and do some nickelodeon style game, with bible questions, he also did a few tricks for the kids. At the end he did a message for the kids. I took a picture of the clown, I thought the outfit was so original. She has on sweat pants and a shirt. She has ties pinned all over, I just had to get a picture.

Here he's doing a trick with his bird, but for the life of me I just can't remember the birds name.

This is one of the games the kids played, all with toilet paper. He had 4 kids in the aisle and one shooting toilet paper into the audience. The object was... they had 1min to shoot 2 rolls of toilet paper while the kids in the audience hand the toilet paper to the kids in the aisle and they were to pass it to the front and put it in the waste basket. (they made it).

Steve Harney let anyone who wanted get their picture taken with him and the bird.

Winter Formal

Chelsea just gave me these pictures last night. These are pictures of her and her roommates in Florida. I guess Disneyworld had a winter formal, and they went.

This is Justin and Chelsea. Remember this is Disney... what may look like an alcholic drink is just juice. (I asked about it).

Here's Chelsea posing on the balcony.

Awards Day

The school had their mid-year awards ceremony for 3rd grade on thursday. Alex got all 3 awards, Scholarship, Citizenship and Attendance. He had perfect attendance until the beginning of 2nd card marking. Then he missed a couple days due to the 24hr flu, which hit me then Chelsea.

Hurray! Snow Day

We got snow overnight just like they predicted. Although we only got about 4" they closed the schools because the worse part was around rush hour this morning.

Dad was up early this morning and got out and shoveled, while I slept in.

Another Weather Update!

Well the warm weather has past. Last night it went from almost 50 degrees to the teens with a wind chill factor at below 0. The wind was so bad you'd thought it was March coming in. My swing kept banging against the house, and anything else out there that could make noise made noise. You can't breathe outside due to the wind and the cold. The truck door was froze shut this morning and I had to use some muscle to get it opened. The only good thing about the rain yesterday was it got rid of the snow. Bad news is we're expecting more snow Yuk!

We're getting a break

Finally the temps are going up, for the next couple of days we're going to see 40 degrees. We're also expecting rain hopefully to wash away this snow we have. Then on Wednesday we go back to weather in the 20's and teens. :(

Burrrrrr!!!!

It's cold here and I just don't like it. I don't like it when you can't get warm without the blankets. I hate to wish my life away but I just can't wait until January and February are over.

Remember in Prayer

My Mother got a phone call from her sister Perky today and she told her she just recently had a stroke. I don't have all the details, I think mom was so upset that she don't remember or didn't get all the details. Perky said she didn't remember anything happening until she woke up in the hospital. The reason she called mom was to ask her about her thyoid surgery. Perky is having the same problem as mom had with the nodules growing inside and she's worried about what has to be done.

Update: I found out that her stroke happened about 8 months ago. She did call mom to find out about what she went through with her thyroid. I guess she's having the same problem mom did.

Our Florida Trip

The first day we got into Florida we called Chelsea then went and picked her up and took her out to eat. This is the picture I got of them at the resturant. They're being nice to each other.

It was so cold there the 2 good days we were there. On Jan 2nd we went to animal kingdom. Chelsea got in free so while we were trying to get in she went and got everyone 1st time buttons, and she got herself a happy birthday Chelsea button. Everyone kept wishing her a happy birthday. Chelsea wanted an ice cream so her and John got one and since it was his 1st time at the park and her so called birthday they got free ice creams.

We went on a dinosaur ride, it was like you were in a jeep driving through rough bumpy roads and dinosaurs were coming out at you. The ride would speed up, slow down, and stop. Anyway he was scared had his head burried behind John and after we got off the ride I had to take this picture of him crying.

This is a tree in the park called the tree of life, it has all different kinds of animals carved into it.

Here Timon is giving Chelsea a hug because he thinks its her birthday. The other picture is of an upside down looking tree, they say it only has leaves on it 3 months out of the year.

After spending most of the day at animal kingdom Chelsea had to go to work, so we left the park and took her to work and this is the employee entrance way behind the park. We didn't go back to animal kingdom because it was just to cold and there were soooo many people.

On Jan 3rd while waiting for Chelsea to pack and call us so we could load up, we decided to go to putt putt golf. This golf place was called Hawaiian Rumble, the volcano waterfall behind him erupts every ten minutes, I was going to try and get a picture of it erupting but decided against it.

After putt putt golf Alex and John went on the go carts. On this course Alex was able to drive, on the better course he meet the height requirements but not the age requirement.
I took this picture of the pink flamigo while it was standing in the water. After I got home and looked at the picture the background was all black except the left side where you were able to see the water and grass, so I cropped the picture and I thought it looked cute.

Finally Home

We made it home about 5:00p.m. saturday evening. I sure hope this is the last trip I ever make to Florida. That's just to long of a drive. Then to top it off it was cold there, in the 40's. Lisa and her family along with Danny, Mom & Dad were there to greet us. They had a little welcome home party with pizza, brownies and long over due conversation.

While we were on the way home they fixed Chelsea's room up with balloons all over her bed and floating in the air. They also made a welcome home sign and taped it on the back door. They also made Alex a sign and put balloons in his room so he wouldn't be left out.