A SMILE!!!!

This is for all those people who only see pictures of my husband and thinks he never smiles! The thing is he smiles alot, just NEVER when he knows I'm taking a picture. I don't know if it's one of this old neighborhood codes that says you can't smile for pictures because it's a sign or weakness or what. But here with my new lovely camera with it's wonderful zoom, I can hide places, even indoors and take pictures of him when he doesn't know it and show EVERYONE how he CAN Smile! lol Now what is on his face at this moment is more of what I call a shit-eating-grin, because he was getting ready to pelt Aaron with a freshly made snowball!


I'm not really sure what he is doing in this picture, but I just like it. Looking at a plane, looking for more snow, praying not sure. But anyway I just added it to my little blogging collection this week.

And if anyone knows how I can get my camera off the wide screen looking view I would be forever grateful I guess I should break out the owners manual, that would probably be the smart thing to do!

Isn't It Two Weeks Before Easter?

Doesn't much look like it does it now?

James woke me up at 5:30 this morning to tell me that there wasn't a lick of snow on the ground nor was it snowing or raining or doing anything, but that the girls school was canceled for the day. Yeah me! lol I had a very busy day planned and Brienne even had a slumber party tonight! Canceled!



So up I got and got ready, got the kids ready took them to my FIL to watch for a while, went to work til 11, to help answer the calls and go ahead and get stuff ready for Monday. Had to go get my mom after that about 30 minutes from my work to take her to her doctors appointment. We got good news and bad news.....

I guess here is where I should update on what's been happening in my family! Dad went in on December 4th for a hip replacement, and it went GREAT! Two weeks before he was to have his second one, my mother fell on ICE at my house and broke her ankle in four places and had to have emergency surgery. (She's really luck her daughter works in the medical field and pulled strings to get her the best foot/ankle specialist in the city and she arrived in the ER at 2:15, they had her in surgery at 4:30) So then two weeks later I had my dad in the hospital, and his surgery had a complication because this hip was the worse of the two...anyway so it was going to take a little longer for recovery...meanwhile my mother found out she got to go into her second cast...so here I have two parents who can't walk, well dad could walk but only with a walker, and neither of them could drive! Yeah my life has not been easy lately...and on top of that NO childcare, we've had snowstorms, sick kids, I've missed two tons of work, but I work for a wonderful group of docs who love me, and know normally I never miss work! lol
Anyway I've gotten way off track!

Mom went in today and she got her second cast OFF!!! Woot Woot, she went into an air cast...it's sorta like a boot....and she will be in that for at least 4 weeks......the bad news , we thought she would be able to walk and drive today and he said no 10 days....but yeah know what after all this, I can handle that! 10 more days til our lives will get back to some type of normal!

This post has gotten way off track.....anyway after doing the doctor thing and picking up the girls, we were off to stop at the post office and the grocery for provisions of the 13 inches of snow that we might be getting tonight. I'm leaning toward we will get a decent amount, we've already gotten about 3-4 inches and Look what it's doing to my spring flowers that are trying to grow >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

HELLO Mother Nature see that? I want pretty flowers, snow and greenery don't go well together....I didn't even notice they had come up til I pulled in the driveway this afternoon and saw it poking out of the snow! I know I'm so observant, look people I've been busy! lol

Most of these pictures I took out at my parents house, because they leave out on a lot of land and it's the one thing I miss about not living in the city, if I could just have A lot of land in the city I'd be golden! Maybe one day!



I did take a few pictures in my backyard, after I finally made it home! The view out front wasn't as pretty, and I'm all about the pretty!!


One thing I love about my backyard are my trees, even though during tornadoes I'm always fearful they might decide to move into our house! I love these trees, in snow, in spring, in the fall...LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!!!!










Guess who else LOVES SNOW!!!! Licorice.......look how big she is getting too, I know I haven't posted pics of her in a while, I've taken them but just haven't taken the time to download them! I could not get her to come back in the house, and actually at this moment she is still out there...wonder if I'll ever drag her back in!

















While I was downstairs doing my domestic duties (ie. Laundry) I came upstairs to find this hot hunk of a male specimen in my front yard!!! How did I ever get so lucky.....My fairy godmother must have granted my wish of a snow fairy to come and shovel my sidewalk.....


Nah, It's just my husband, and I'm sure in same
shape or form I will be paying for the shoveling later!

Now that I've been all over the board tonight with a little bit of everything or just randoms I'll leave it at that! Since I'm snowed in I'm thinking I'll be doing some good blogging this weekend...or well a lot, depends on what you consider good!! lol

Germs, Germs, My Invisible Dog

I don't know about you, but that's a song that I learned in Kindergarten...loved that song!!! Anyway that has nothing really to do with my post tonight, except I have the sickie germs!!!!! I am misreable, losing my voice, runny nose, that's after the stuffed head, and sore throat and cough...I have a really bad sinus infection! So I haven't really been writing alot, and just this week I've been gloomy so I just haven't felt like socializing!



Just adding a few pics from Chasity's 7th Birthday, though that was in January!!








And the Rich Peanut Butter Pie I made a while back!!

The Morning After

That's my mom and my Uncle Kenny in the picture above! My mom as well as all 8 of her brother's and sisters were very happy that he made it in in time for the funeral!!!

The funeral is something else I really feel compelled to write about from the eulogy that his son gave to the twenty-one gun salute, but I will have to save that for later, I am truly wiped right now and I have to be heading to work soon. So I thought I'd just share a few pictures from the dinner we had after the funeral.




This picture is of my Aunt Donna's husband Kenny, my Uncle Sonny's son Bobby, My Aunt Margaret, and you see Brie's head, and my Uncle Kenny and Mom over to the side.



This is Bobby Again, My Aunt Donna, Aunt Margaret, and my Mom



Brienne and my Dad.

Uncle Sonny

Today is a really sad day in our family....today is the day of my Uncle Sonny's funeral. I still just can't believe it. I didn't see my Uncle Sonny alot, but our families were still always close, and I was born on his birthday. My mom comes from a very large family, she had 11 brother/sisters living, and 4 siblings that died in infancy. This is the first death of a sibling since then and it's hitting them all really hard, couple that with the fact that it was everyone's big brother, and it was all so sudden and nobody got to say goodbye.

The picture above is my Uncle Sonny, that smile, that was him....that's what I remember the most even from a very early age is my Uncle Sonny's huge smile....and I can't forget his tobacco pipe and how he loved to fish.

I think it's also hitting all the cousins really hard too, I know another cousin of mine in particular...it's made us realize our parents aren't invincible and this is the start of something we all don't want to go through, burying our parents, our Aunts and Uncles....and it makes it hard to because alot has gone on in my family lately, both my parents have had surgery, one of my mom's sisters had a hip replacement and got really sick, two other's had back surgery, a few months back my Uncle Hank fell of a piece of machinery and got seriously injured....I think it's just put things in perspective for us. It's sorta cute at the funeral home you just see us all hovering over our parents to make sure they are okay...my how the roles change. I think it's bringing us all even closer together, this is the first death on my mom's side of the family since I was 4 when my Granny Gunn died.

Since my mom comes from such a large family my Uncle Sonny was the oldest at 71....and they run down to 51....

I know I'm all across the board on this blog, and I'm not doing any editing, I just needed to get some things out this morning before the funeral, some feeling I'm having.

Won't be blogging

For a little bit, my Uncle passed away very unexpectedly yesterday from a massive heart attack, and I will be traveling with my parents all weekend to be with my mom's family.

The "S" Word and Princess PixieTude

This little piece of perfection who I have so dubbed Princess PixieTude, just waltzes into the room in an uproar "Bebe said I said the "S" word and I didn't!", so portraying my mom-ness I said well if you didn't say the "S" word then don't worry about it.(haha, those who know me well know I curse like a sailor and if one of my kids said a bad word it wouldn't phase me (though they aren't allowed too :P) or shock me cause I'm sure they heard it from me.)

Then with a confuzzled look on her face, goes "How many "S" words are there?".....I said I can only think of one....she goes "Yeah me too" lol I don't know why I thought that was so funny but I did....I guess it was just the look on her face, or that she was trying really hard to think of all the bad words she could and what they started with, but I just sit in amusement at her.....


The following pictures are when she called her brother back to call him a turd because he hung up on her!

I'm such a good Mom, I told her too! And I had to explain what a Turd was!!! lol



This by the way is the crown she's been wearing since last Easter when we went on Vacation, she wore it the whole week....and wears it constantly.....I'll have to catch a pic of her at her peak....when she has the tinkerbell wings on as well...hence where we get Princess Pixietude.....and you can guess the Tude comes in from her attitude!




Thanks for listening to me ramble about my middle child!