MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hoping everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and wishes the best 2011 to all!!!

Why you keep your nose out of other peoples business

Poor Socks Amelia, aka Socksie, stuck her nose where it didn't belong last night.  We debated whether to call the vet at 10:00 at night or try and remove the quills ourselves.  We opted for the latter and if it didn't work then would call the vet.  It took 3 of us over a half hour to get over 30 quills out of her nose.  Thankfully she didn't get any inside her mouth.  She is such a laid back baby girl, but didn't understand that we were helping her.  Finally putting a towel over her head helped some.  But it was a tough struggle to hold her down!  HOWEVER, she's fine and promptly went to bed, our bed, afterwards with a big sigh!  Today, she's following me everywhere and won't leave my side.

A week in photos

Sorry, I said I was going to keep up on Photo of the Day, but with work and running kids here and there, that's not possible!  So instead, here's photos from the week!!!

Elizabeth and a friend of hers splatter painted on Saturday

Robyn Easter morning hunting for eggs

Tiz running to find an egg the Easter Bunny left

After all the Easter candy, Elizabeth had a cleaning!

NO cavaties

Robyn in her Lady Seahawk softball uniform

Sock just wonder if anyone was in the house to let her in!!

Thank you MUM!!

Happy Easter Mum!!  WE LOVE YOU!!

Today's photo

Hope everyone had a fool proof day today!!

Photo of the day

My Easter Cactus

Rain rain go away.....Photo of the day!

Another few days of heavy rain, AGAIN!  Up to 3-6" of rain.  Never in the 18yrs since we built the house have we been able to see the creek that is behind the house!

Photo of the day

The "boys" relaxing

POGO

You didn't know

You didn't know she was a hit singing artist, did you? 

Mother Nature is such a tease

After warm temperatures last weekend (60's & 70's) while I worked, we now have cold temps (30's) and SNOW!  Course, its my weekend off!!

Poor Magoo has snow on her!  Should've put her in the garage last night!

Meet Magoo

Meet my new baby....named Magoo.  I'll post pictures tomorrow during daylight hours!

SLOW down

CLASS ring ordered, Junior classes picked out. 

2012 isn't all that far away!!

LOTS of rain!

Causes overflowing of ponds

Little rivers where there never was any

Brings buds on trees!

A photo a day

A friend of mine is doing a photo a day on Facebook for the year.  So I thought I'd give it a try!!  Though I know with my work schedule I won't be able to be that faithful, but here we go.

Tiz relaxing in Papa Del's chair while playing with my Ipod Touch

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!!

St. Patricks day means corned beef and cabbage in our house!  So today that's what I made!  Now all our bellies are full and the fingers are swelling!  So worth it, I've got plenty of water to drink!

The bread dough enjoyed the warm weather today and rose quickly!

Came out SO good!

The plate full of yummy food!

               The Lemon-Blueberry dessert.  Not very nice looking in my pan, but was HEAVENLY!

Wild and Windy Weekend

WOW what a wild and windy weekend we had! From Thursday, mostly on Friday, to Saturday we had heavy rains and high winds. Rainfall is said to be between 4-6" and the wind gust were 60mph. Which means power outages. We lost our Friday from midnight to Saturday afternoon around 5. CMP did a great job trying to keep up with it and getting power back up quick. Time Warner (which is our phone, cable & internet) was off and on until finally staying on for good late yesterday. When Robyn decided it was time to call them, they said they had not had reports of any cable problems. Guess we just assumed they knew there was problems with it.

So back to Friday, what happens when a big storm hits and trees are down and power outages, Robbie goes out with his chainsaw and goes with the fire dept, and making sure roads are clear for EMS to get through. I don't think we've ever had a storm that he's been here. I wouldn't know what to do if he decided to stay home. I'm use to being here by myself with the girls and without the power, keeping the stove going and trying to find enough flashlights. Last year we finally got a small hand cranked one so that Tiz can leave it on while she's trying to sleep. Less batteries we have to worry about! However that doesn't solve my problem of having to fall asleep with a fan on, without power = very little sleep!

Saturday the girls and I kept entertained by playing electronic Monopoly. I have to confess I only played one LONG game, the girls played several. Tiz and I also spent time reading. We really didn't miss the tv and computer all that much after all!

The girls playing one of their many Monopoly games
Seaweed washed up making the road unpassable
Much calmer seas
A little storm surge

Sunday we uncovered some snow buried wood to put in the basement to dry since we are beginning to run low. As you can see in the photo, Socks obviously found that something had been living there!