Our Birthday Girl

Celebrating her 2nd birthday :)

Some Pictures of the Storm's Aftermath

You Have to look close, but if you do you'll see that everything is covered in1-3 inches of ice, even down to the smallest twig. Then on top of that there is 5-9 inches of snow. When you are outside you can hear the trees breaking under the weight of it all. It sounds like thunder and breaking glass. It really is a very surreal experience.

Two days later thousands of people in our area are still without power, we feel very blessed to have been spared. The power company has been working non-stop since the first ice storm. They are putting in a great effort to repair the damage. We saw utility trucks all over town putting the pieces back together. Kudos to them.

Receipt for a Disaster Area

So, when you go to bed at night and everything is covered in freezing rain, like this photo here.














And you wake up and everything looks snowed over..l.












That is how you create a disaster area in Southern Indiana.

Ice and Snow

Yes we in the middle of a winter storm which includes freezing rain/sleet with snow inter-mingled in there. It started last night with the freezing rain which lasted for quite a few hours. Then sometime during the night we received a few inches of snow. During lunch time today the freezing rain came back and has stayed with us though the afternoon. The prediction is that it is going to continue though the night along with some more snow. All the schools have canceled today and I'm sure they will be tomorrow too. Because of the storm everyone is staying in and enjoying a day of playing, making yummy food, reading books, watching movies and of course enjoying some hot chocolate.

Wood Letters

Where did we get these wood pieces you ask? No need to go any further then the garage. Where we cut and sanded pieces of wood we already had. It has been a great hands-on experience/activity which has already helped with letter formation, building words and to just plain have fun with. We have also made up a little game, of writing a word on the chalkboards and then he will try to form that word with the wood pieces. By far he enjoys making the letter "D/d" over and over again. If you couldn't guess my kids are currently 'in to' Dora and Diego. (And seriously if you think i'm so amazing that I thought of this idea on my own, think again found it on a website: http://thewritestart.typepad.com - she purchased hers- and I figured we could make them instead)

Happiness

I saw this slide show over at Shannon's Blog and I thought it was so amazing. I just had to share. It tied in so well with what Tom and I were talking about last night, of what makes us truely happy. Which is each other and our adorable children. This slide show reminded me that even though the days may be long, the years really are short with our children, that we should enjoy every single moment we have with them while they are young. The last 2 nights one or the other of my kids has been up when they should be asleep - which isn't normal. Soon they will be so big they won't want/need mommy to hold and comfort them as in this picture. Thanks for the reminder!

Let it snow

This morning we woke up to this....our first snowstorm of the year. It's not to much the grass is poking though but it sure made the kids happy to see it, J also proclaimed that it must be Christmas again :)

Weekend project

I have the best husband in the world! I showed him this idea just last week and now today its built and put up!

Laughter helps keep life into perspective

As we grow older, we get far too serious. Don't you think? Sometimes we need to stop and just watch our children play. As you can see they don’t need expensive toys to entertain them. Everything is fun. Our little girl is so spontaneous. She makes us laugh everyday. Which is such a good thing. She has taught us to laugh even on those difficult days that we may have. Especially on this particular day when she decided it would be fun to throw a book down the stairs, which caused this....

Yes that is a nice little hole in our wall. And oh yeah if you were wondering, yes she was sent to Time Out. (getting this fixed will be Tom's next home improvement project that was NOT planned)

Happy New Year

We hope everyone had a great New Years eve. We certainly did. Family, Friends and of course yummy food. They had a blast playing with their friends and all of the many toys. We let the kids stay up until midnight for the first time. I honestly did not think they would make until midnight but they did, barely. They loved playing all of their musical instruments at the stroke of 12. After all the fun it was off to bed and by 12:15 they were both in bed and asleep. Now the part I don't look forward to will happen this weekend taking down all of the Christmas decorations.