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My Brother and I

SIL and I

She so cute!

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

Random Things

Baseball has arrived and scrimmages and games have started. Well, kind of started. Winter here has been a brutal one for all and games have been cancelled due to snow, rain, and frigid temps.

Snow Shots From Work!

A SNOW Event DID Happen.....

This is what we woke up to this morning. Smack had no idea that the white stuff had fallen and when he found out, asked if school was closed. NOPE!! He was not a happy camper. I told him I wouldn't be surprised if they closed early tho. That seemed to help for the time being. More of the white stuff is coming so the boys' schools are closing one hour early today and are already closed for FRIDAY!! Talk about a nice long weekend. More pictures from my camera camera later. I took these with my phone. The white stuff is HEAVY and of course, very, very, WHITE!!

Snow Event

The weather people are calling for a SNOW EVENT here in the DFW area. It has been the talk since Monday morning. Everyone is waiting with great anticipation if the white, fluffy, stuff will fall to the ground. I am sure it will start out with rain and then turn to the white stuff. Being from the frozen tundra, I don't get all worked up about it. I grew up with the white stuff. And common sense tells you that if the temperature is freezing and there was rain before the temp dropped...then there will be ICE. So DON'T DRIVE people. Stay home all day! Wear your PJs...cuddle up under a big blanket and nap, read, watch a movie or do a little fun project. A snow day is one of life's simple pleasures. A free day....it's like stopping and smelling the roses. So ENJOY IT!!

Just a few shots of what a SNOW EVENT brought last time.

Winter In Texas

It never fails, 5:00 pm on a Sunday you find yourself calling your neighbor asking if you can send Frick and Frack over to fill some containers with water. Why?? Because of the wonderful insulation job our builder did in our garage. The water line blew an ice chunk the size of a regular ice cube from your freezer out into our driveway. Water, water everywhere. Frick came running into the house announcing the water is shut off. Soon Nichol and I were going thru the Tupperware cabinet finding pitchers and big bowls to send over to the neighbors who also sent back with Frick and Frack more containers full of water. A trip to Lowe's and some soldering and we had water!! PHEW!!

My Little Baker!!!

Happy Birthday to ME!!! Hee Hee!

What a nice surprise to have these delivered to my work!! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!

1000 pieces.....PHEW!!

It has become a "tradition" that at Christmas a little project, to drive some crazy, unfolds or spills onto the dining room table. A sharp knife is used to cut the seal around the bottom of the box that holds a challenge for some. Once the seal is cut and the top of the box is removed, the 1000 inter-locking pieces are dumped including the fine cardboard dust onto the dining room table. Then the sorting begins....the outside pieces are slid to one area while the rest get flipped to the colored side. Of course, the outside edge is the easiest part of the 1000 piece challenge and before long....VIOLA....the border is ready for its many other pieces to join it (the remaining 900 pieces that is.) Your eyes start crossing and the colors start blurring. The glare from the chandelier starts giving you a headache and before long you are thinking I have done enough for right now. But you can't stop.....just 5 more minutes then 5 minutes turn into 15 minutes until 1 1/2 hours and two glasses of wine later you are checking the floor to make sure no pieces have fallen and hoping if one or two did, Ruger hasn't chewed them. You stretch like a cat and definitely decide to call it a night but not until another glass of wine is gone....the one that will get rid of that headache!!!

Ruger is 3!!

What a better way to celebrate Ruger turning 3 than with a glazed doughnut. Of course, no CHOCOLATE for the four legged punk (he did share the rest of the dozen with the rest of the pack.) Smack was all excited and couldn't wait for me to come home with the doughnuts. And from the doughnut sticking out of Ruger's chops, he certainly enjoyed it!