Ice and Pink Eyes

The phone rang at 6am on Tuesday morning, a recording saying that school was closed. There was ice on the roads so we got to stay home.

Kylie and Emily had both crawled in bed with us about an hour earlier so we were all warm and toasty. I whispered in Kylie's ear that there was no school, she said "YES" and went back to her slumber.

I laid awake for awhile and wondered what we would do......maybe a fort..... in the living room. When I was a kid we did this alot and loved it. Finally I went back to sleep for a while enjoying the thought of not having to get up till we were darn good and ready.

We ate breakfast and then I told them the news about the fort and they were SOOOO excited.
I got out a sheet and we hooked it to the top of the TV cabinet and then moved the couch up enough we could clip it to the back. It was perfect. The fireplace was on and we put lots of blankets on the couch. We decided to rent "Horton hears a Who" from On Demand. We all snuggled up and watched the movie and just enjoyed being together. Kylie made us a snow day word search on the computer too. She loves that kinda stuff, she and Emily played school for awhile after the movie. Emily did all kinds of math problems, anything Kylie could work up on the computer. All in all it went pretty well, a few fights did break out but nothing I couldn't handle.

I was glad there was no school, really.... last Sat. afternoon Emily's eye was super red and I was suspecting pink eye. yuck! On Monday morning first thing I took her to the Dr. and sure enough it was. GREAT! I hate for either of them to miss school especially for something like this.

I figured on Tues. she could go back but she woke up with it in her other eye. So I was glad she was not missing school, just got to stay home anyway. She is still home today and I'm hoping after all of today's drops she will be back tomorrow. She's been playing games on webkinzs, watching movies and practicing telling time in a little workbook she got for Christmas. She's pretty easy to hang out with.

Happy Birthday Barrett

Happy 1st Birthday to one of the sweetest boys I know. We have so enjoyed this weekend with you. You make us all so happy! Love you sweet baby B.

Photo Shoot

Sunday the girls and I were home alone and we decided to have a little photo shoot. I hung a sheet over the bunk bed for a backdrop. Kylie loves having her picture taken and Emily not so much. Just for fun we spent a little time putting on some powder, blush and mascara. I think they thought this was the best part. I took about 120 pics of the girls and they had fun posing for me.

This morning I'm trying to decide which ones I really love and want to hang in my bedroom. The pictures I have there now are about 2 years old. They have grown so much and changed.

Here are a few favorites of my beautiful girls....

Where does the time go?

Well here I am trying to figure out where to begin? We had a wonderful Christmas with everyone... the girls got everything they wanted and we all just enjoyed being together. We took our Wii out to mom and dad's and everyone had fun trying to bowl and play baseball. Kylie got a game where she pretends to be a vet and had to doctor the animals, we all decided it was very stressful. Little Barrett was the center of attention, we were all curious what he would do with his packages. He loved to play with each thing after it was opened. Emily got a new red dirt bike, which is right up her alley, and Kylie got an MP3 player.

The holiday break from school went by so fast and I really did enjoy having the girls here. We all got too used to sleeping in. We went shopping and they spent some of their gift cards, and we got all of our thank you cards in the mail.

We even got to go 4wheelin'. Grandpa Rusty takes all the kids out on the 4-wheeler every chance he gets. They LOVE it so much...

Barrett stayed with us one evening and the girls had a friend over, he was right in the middle of it all. SO CUTE, his dad wasn't so sure of him hanging out with all these girls....

We spent New Year's Eve with our wonderful neighbors, we ate and watched football. The kids drank their grape juice in fancy glasses.... This year Kylie insisted she needed to see the ball drop on TV,otherwise I would've been in bed long before midnight.

So I stayed up with her and we snuggled on the couch.

Our new year is starting out just fine.... we are blessed with so many wonderful people in our lives.