Day 4 of no school...

Thats right, I said day 4! And I'm going to be honest, they are really starting to drive me a little nuts, well thats not really a far drive but you get the idea. I don't expect them to have school tomorrow either and the weathermen are saying we may have another storm next monday. STOP THE INSANITY!! Okay, I'm better now. I had a little moment there. Here's a little pic, it was lunchtime at the zoo.

Playing in the snow....

Lindsay and Kara were the only one's brave enough to go out and play in the snow. And even they didn't stay for long. And when Jeremiah got home from work, he took part in that time honored tradition of throwing snow balls at your kids. :-P

Snow, snow and more snow.....

So this morning we woke up to 6 inches of snow on the ground. They had said it was coming but everytime they said snow was coming we got rain. ;-) But they said that this giant snow storm was headed our way and this time they got it right. We have 6 inches now and it is still snowing hard. From what they are saying by the time it stops snowing tomorrow afternoon we could have up to a FOOT of snow. Crazy....

The view from my front door...


Kara's deep foot prints going outside to measure the snow..

Silly Austin....

I was deleting some of the pictures off of my phone and came across these from last week and thought I would share them. We were at Sams and Austin, for some reason, really liked my moms ear muffs and wanted to wear them even if they were girly looking, and didn't care who was looking. I thought it was hilarious!! As you can see he looks completetly thrilled that I was taking his picture.

Inauguration Day 2008

The coverage was on tv all day, that was okay with me since I find it interesting to watch. My kids however, were not so thrilled. Seems, they had to watch it on tv at school (good for them). I reminded them that history was being made and it would turn out to be one of those things that when your older and talking to your kids/grandkids you will remember exacly where you were when our first african american president was sworn in.

See, I'm keeping the blog about family but we can allow just a teeny bit of politics since it was a historic day that needed just a little write up ;-)

Really busy and a new laptop.....

The lack of posts lately has to do with the fact that we have had ALOT going on here. My mom moved in over the weekend and we have been trying to get everyone situated. I also got a new laptop and am really slow at figuring out how to do everything on it. I will figure it out sooner or later. ;-)

Did you know we have 9 Hermit Crabs???

We dont' have dogs or cats as pets, we have Hermit Crabs. They are easy to take care of and honestly don't really require anything at all, but food and water. Basiclly they just do their own thing. The kids really like looking in their tank and watching them walk around and do nothing or watch all of them pile on top of each other and sleep inside of a hollow log thats in there. We started out with only one that we bought at a pet store, and for awhile he had this whole tank to himself, but we read that hermit crabs like to live in packs so we started looking to buy another one, they are only around 10 bucks. Last september I was reading Craigslist and there was an ad in the free section about a pet store that was closing and the lady was giving away free hermit crabs, so I called and arranged to meet her to look at them, we told the kids we would get a "few", well when we got there we found out they were all the painted shell kind that my kids love so much and there was batman, and spiderman and all kids of different ones and before I knew it we had 9. But we love them and they are our pets. We don't really "play" them but we do get them out (not all at once)and let them crawl on the carpet and the kids LOVE it. Here are a few pics.........