Snow Day #2...

Well...it's still snowing or sleeting here!!  We haven't had this much snow in forever!!  This morning we had over 3 inches.  I am will to bet by now it is close to 5 inches.  So, how did we spend this day???  We got up and ate breakfast.  We had put two bowls out yesterday morning to make us some snow ice cream but I forgot to bring them in before I left for work and the snow was nothing but slush when we got home.  So, Justin just dumped them out and left the bowls out on the deck.  Good thing because we had two bowls full this morning. So, we made our snow ice cream.  I let them taste a little but we put it in the freezer for later on.

 Here we are working on the snow ice cream.  Then, we suited up and headed outside!

 Our home sweet home all covered in  snow!!

 We had to check on "Frosty"...he was still standing!  

                  

Then, we tried to make snowballs.  Emma & Evan didn't do too well.  The snow was so soft and fluffy you really had to work to make it stick.  Daddy managed though and threw a couple at us!  Then, he got out the 4-wheeler.  He rode Emma around a little in the back yard.  She was okay with it but not a huge fan.  Evan loved it!  He decided to take Evan to the drive way and do donuts!  Evan was screaming "wheee" the whole time.  I was not a fan of this but I was REALLY not a fan when he decided to take him up on the main highway in front of the house and continue this little adventure!  That was my baby he had on that 4-wheeler slinging him around!  Once they finally came back and Evan got off, he constantly said "I do donuts"! He was a fan of the adventurous little outing!   

         

 
                                 

And then of course...my big kid had to play by himself!  He is such a big kid at heart!!  After all this excitement we headed back inside to warm up.  We brought out the snow ice cream.  It had to warm up a little before we could really eat it.  They loved it though.  

             

So, while I was fixing lunch, I happened to look outside and there was a bird inside my lamp post.  How he got in there I have no clue.  So, Justin went out to rescue him.  Since he had to grab him anyway...he brought him up for Emma and Evan to see.  Emma wasn't a fan...but Evan loved him.  He is such an animal lover!!  The bird is kind of hard to see because it matched Justin's gloves.  

                
 So, we headed back outside after lunchtime.  We were going to try and make a trip to MaMa & PaPa's on the 4-wheeler and we made it to the Ward's house before Emma started pitching a fit...so we turned around.  Evan and Daddy rode around some more doing more donuts.  By now it was just sleeting and no more snow.  Hints why Evan is now wearing a ski mask!  

So, after this we headed in for naps.   Once they got up we decided to make the trip to my parents after all but we took the truck instead.  It was much warmer.  That was the end of our time outside today.  My work is closed again tomorrow and I would be really surprised if Justin has to go in.  No worries though...there won't be a Snow Day #3 on the blog.  But Valentine's is coming up!  I made their classmates gifts today.  I doubt they will have school on Friday but whenever we get to celebrate...our gifts are ready!  Speaking of gifts...we don't have Emma & Evan's gift yet.  Our plan was to get their fish on Thursday after work and have everything set up Friday morning when they woke up.  Those plans have failed.  We do have the "Finding Nemo" movie and they gold fish snacks...so they may just get that with a picture of a fish!  We'll figure something out.  Safe safe out there and stay warm!! :)

It's snowing again...

Well...the forecast was right.  We woke up this morning to a white yard!  Justin went on into work but I stayed home with E&E until 11:00.  When they got up, I brought each of them in the den and showed them the snow.  They both said "Snow" and went on to something else.  They weren't very impressed.  It was beautiful though.  It snowed most of the morning.  Here are the two of them looking out at the snow while I was getting breakfast ready.

 

Then, after breakfast, we went in the den to watch a movie.  Can you guess which one???  Yep...101 Dalmatians.  It is becoming a toss up between that and Cinderella right now.  We will be glad when "Finding Nemo" gets here on Friday so we might can watch something new for a while!  Emma went in Evan's room and was playing or I thought she was playing.  This is how she looked when she returned to the den..

I think she was ready to play in the snow.  This girl LOVES her hat, gloves, & shoes.  Then, she proceeded to bring Evan his hat and he actually put it on.  Here were are watching the movie all ready for the cold weather!!

 

Please notice in the above picture that Emma is wearing Evan's shoes.  She went in his room got them out of his closet and wore them all morning.  So, I headed into work about 11:00 and momma came over to keep them.  Me & Justin both got home about 3:30 and we bundled them up to go outside and play.  Here are a couple pictures from our time in the snow!!  

And they were off to play in the snow.  I had them so bundled up Evan couldn't even hardly bend his knees.  They didn't get cold though.   

               

         

Evan tried to ride his tractor but it kept getting stuck...so that didn't last long!

Our house covered in snow.  With my Let It Snow flag...after this I think I am going to put it up.  We've had enough snow!

 The start of our snowman...

 Evan helping roll the snowman!

                    

 And our finished product.  We tried to get them to name the snowman...but they wouldn't so I named him Frosty.  So original I know!  Justin cooked us pancakes for supper and they were yummy!  He is awesome at cooking pancakes!!  Then, we finished our night with bubble bath.  My two love bubbles and MaMa gave them bubble bath as part of their Valentine's.  So, they played for probably 30 minutes in the bathtub!  They are now in the bed and Justin is watching Clemson basketball.  So, I am going to pop me some popcorn and add some M&M's and watch TV with my hubby.  My work is closed tomorrow and I am hoping Justin's is too.  That way we get to spend the day here doing nothing!!  Hope you all got to enjoy the snow!

A little Spring teaser...

Was this a BEAUTIFUL weekend or what???  I am READY for SpRiNg!! :)  Well, we made it one whole week at school.  Haven't done that in a while.  From the weather forecast...we might get some more snow this week.  I love snow and all but I am not wanting anymore of it.  It just causes too much of a headache trying to figure out what to do with E&E during it all...because D&F & Eaton don't shut down for snow!  Anyway...back to last week.  I went to Switcharoo's again this year.  I didn't buy as much because last year I bought tons of things and we just never wore then all.  Then, they didn't really have much for Evan's size...so good thing I wasn't buying that much anyway.  The 2T girls rack was twice as long as the boys was and it was so packed that I couldn't even scoot the clothes down to really look at them.  Actually the 24 month & 2T for the boys was the same rack and it was still half the size of the girls.  I know there are lots of cute girl things...but boys need clothes too.  I guess I am too picky about what Evan wears.  He'll appreciate that one day.  So, here are our finds of the day...

  

 These are Emma's clothes.  I got a couple things that I can monogram and make even cuter!! :)

And this is Evan's!! 

Each of them also got a pair of shoes (Evan's-crocs & Emma- gold sandles) and a bathing suit.  I also found Emma a little white dress exactly like what I have been wanting.  I am having Trinity Street do a portrait of each of them in April and I have in my mind what I want them to wear.  I couldn't believe I found it at a consignment sale for $15 and it looks brand new.  Score me!!  Won't my sweet pea look perfect in this little dress??

 Now...I just have to work on finding Evan what I want him to wear!! Well, that was Thursday.  Friday night...Justin and I went on a long over due date night.  Katie, Matt, & Alison kept Emma & Evan for us.  We actually went to supper at Outback and to a movie.  I was nice and let Justin pick the movie.  He chose 'Lone Survivor" and I was not a fan.  The language was AWFUL and it was too realistic.  It is based on a true story and there is no way you can watch that and not be grateful to what our service men are doing to keep us safe and free.  The ending showed a the tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives in this mission and I seriously was just sitting there crying.  Next time we are watching a chick flick and he better not say a word!! :)  While in the movies I got this picture from Matt.  No wonder they love Katie, Matt, & Alison...they gave them ice cream.

You can tell from the picture that they are digging in!  Katie said they were so good for them.  I am so glad Emma & Evan have two aunts who love them so.  We can't wait to love on their precious children one day soon!!  Saturday, it was so nice that we decided to spend the morning outside playing.  They haven't been on their swing set in months...so they really enjoyed sliding, swinging. jumping on the trampoline, helping Daddy rake leaves, riding his tractor (Evan) and riding her tricycle (Emma).  I forgot to mention that Evan loves his tractor now and Emma's car for that matter too.  He still hasn't mastered the steering so he runs into a lot of things...but he's getting the hang of it.  Emma is still terrified of the tractor and her car but she is getting really good at riding her tricycle.  The first day Evan decided to ride his tractor she followed him around the whole yard hanging on to the trailer.  I tried to get her to sit on the trailer and let Evan pull her around this yard...but that wasn't happening. The video is too cute.  I don't really blame her for not trusting Evan's driving just yet!!   Then, we went for a golf cart ride down behind the house.  Two weekends ago Justin brought the tractor over and cut some roads back there.  I can so see Evan in the future riding 4-wheeler's back through those roads.  That is one memory I have of going to Melissa Goldman's house when we were younger.  She had the same thing behind her house and it was so much fun riding back there  Here are a couple pictures I took of our morning outside!

                 

 

 Today, we went to church, celebrated Justin's step-grandma's 80th birthday, and we all took a 3 hour nap.  That was a good day!  Hope you guys have a great week and if we happen to get more snow...the camera is charged and this momma is ready!  Until next time..

Off to the circus...

Yes, this is another post in the same day.  This one will have lots of pictures...so it needed a blog of it's own.  We have been looking forward to the circus.  We left about 9:00 this morning, picked Justin up, and headed to Greenville.  We didn't really care to be there for the pre-show because we knew we would already be pushing it with the two of them sitting there almost two hours watching the real show.  We got to the arena right about 5 til 11:00.  We got in and found our seats.  Thanks to Katie and Alison...these seats were perfect!  We were literally about 5 or 6 rows from the floor and were on the outside...so we couldn't have picked better seats ourselves.  Emma was not a fan at first.  As soon as we got in and they were playing music...she started crying wanting to leave.  She didn't scream and all like she normally does...she just laid her head on my shoulder almost as if she was just going to go to sleep.  After about maybe 10 minutes I convinced her to look at all the things going on around us and she did.  She still was not a fan of the motorcycles and wanted to leave when they came out...but for the most part she did MUCH better than I was expecting.  Evan loved it all!  He has been talking about animals for a week now.  Here are a few snap shots from our first circus!!!

      

Here are my two sweeties in their cute circus shirts...made by me!!

These aren't in order...but this was a kangaroo doing tricks!

Elephants!

These were the dreaded motorcycles.  This was a pretty cool act though!

The woolly mammoth!

The lions and tigers!

A partial family shot!  It's hard to take a picture of all four of us without help!

More Elephants!

Me & my sweet girl at intermission!

This was literally right over our heads.  It was pretty cool too!

More elephants!

My two boys at intermission!

More elephants!

The goats, llamas, & donkey's

The show ended about 1:15.  We got in the car and headed home.  They were both out before we hardly got out of our parking area.  So, we headed back to Greenwood.  Our television started messing up this week so we had to go get a new one.  Then, we decided to stop by Katie's for a while.  This picture right here is why we have to watch 101 Dalmatians all the time...because Evan LOVES Amos!  Although he isn't a dalmatian...he looks kind of like one!

Our naps today consisted of maybe 30 minutes so we knew it would be early bedtimes.  So, tonight as Justin and I were washing the supper dishes our sink decided to start leaking.  It was the garbage disposal that we don't use anyway...so it looks like Justin will be heading to Lowe's tomorrow to figure out how to get this thing out and us just have a normal sink.  We have a guy coming next week to give us an estimate on some things we want done around the house.  So, unless things quit breaking on us...we might have to put our remodeling jobs in hold!  :)  That's life though.  Anyway...it was still a great day!  We had an awesome time at the circus and can't wait to go again!!

Let it snow...

We are finally all feeling better.  Antibiotics are finished, noses aren't running anymore...but dare I say we are healthy again.  It seems like we have been sick forever!!  We started the week off back into our normal routine.  I got a call about 10:15 Monday morning that Evan was crying for me, wouldn't eat, and wouldn't play.  Which is very unlike him.  So, I went to get him.  He was so pitiful when I got to their school.  He was sitting in Mrs. Lisa's office all by himself.  I almost cried when I saw him.  Of course, I scooped him up and took him home.  He fell asleep on the way home and slept almost 4 hours.  I think he was just exhausted.  Tuesday, we got up and headed back to school trying to get back into a routine...only to get a text that they are letting out at 11:00 because of possible snow.  So, once again we go pick them up.  It did start snowing about 4:00 that afternoon. We ended up only getting maybe an inch...but since it was Emma & Evan's first snow...we made the best of it.  I tried to catch us some to make some snow cream.  BUT the flakes were so small I only ended up with maybe a spoonful of snow...so we decided against the snow cream.  Emma & Evan loved the snow.  They couldn't really figure out what it was.  I think they thought it was rain.  Emma kept screaming...I get wet.  So, we ran around in it for a while and then jumped on the trampoline.  They had a blast.  My cell phone was dead and my camera was dead...so we had to take pictures on Justin's piece of junk phone.  He really needs to invest in a new one!  So, these were all the pictures we got.  So, if we ever get anymore snow., this momma will be more prepared for pictures!!
                                                                 

     

Katie laughed because I had them all bundled up with my scarfs and everything...but if you had been sick for over a month...you do what you have to do!  This was pretty much all the playing in the snow we got to do.  Me & Justin still had to work Wednesday so once we got home the snow was mostly gone.  There will be other times to play in the snow though.  At least we got to see a little this year!