Woah! Snow!

Exactly two weeks ago, I thought it was amazing that in two days we had received the same amount of snow that we usually get in a whole year here. Today, I am even more amazed because we've probably doubled that. So, we bundled up the boy and took him out, and there he stood, frozen like a statue, certain that he couldn't move unless someone provided him with some assistance. (Putting him in hard bottom shoes for the first time probably did NOT help with that!)

This is just to give a general idea how deep the snow is:















Frozen to the porch. Not going anywhere mom!




















Daddy is building Jude a (little) snowman:-)
















He likes it.
















REALLY likes it!
















Covered in snow!









































Hanging out with Daddy.




















Little foot prints:-)
















And a little video. Nothing exciting happens, but I am sure that the grandparents will find it interesting!

And a bonus video for your enjoyment! Jude helping Daddy move his highchair back into the dining room. (Pardon our mess!) Maybe we won't win any parent of the year awards, but we found that the best way to distract him from his growing molars long enough to eat something is to put him in front of some cartoons!

The only thing I hate about living in LaFayette

Thursday it is going to be 11 degrees. I really do not like cold weather. I am good to about 40 degrees, which is better than when I first moved here whey 60 degrees was my limit. Anyway, I will have to make sure that all my errands get run today and tomorrow because I am NOT going outside on Thursday.

I can not tell you how it is that our fish pond hasn't frozen over. I guess that little fountain really makes a difference. But then I wonder why waterfalls freeze. Oh well. The world may never know.

Our Snow!

Well, I waited until today to post this because it was "supposed to" snow so much better today that it did on Thursday. Not even one flake fell. We heard that Atlanta got it pretty good though.

But Thursday is noteworthy because it got us out of school:-)

We maybe had 3/4" to an inch at most, but Daisy enjoyed it.














It fell all night, but by the time and we had a better ground cover than this, but I don't take good pictures in the dark, so I did not try.














This is what was left when I went out at 9:00am. It was better when I went out with Daisy at 6:00 (had to get up anyway to watch the news to see if school was canceled), but again, it was dark, so I did not take a photo.














I knew our back yard would look cool with snow! (Well, some of this is our back yard, some of it is the golf course).

My First Christmas Snow!

I want to be a weather man because according to The Weather Channel yesterday, it was not supposed to even rain today. (If I had that poor of an accuracy rate at my job. . . well, you know what would happen.)

So, I tried a lot of different shots, but since the ground was too warm for it to stick and it was really very little flakes, the only way for me to show this to you is this way. Apparently, even if snow won't stick to the ground or the cars, it will stick to the black lab.

This is officially my first ever Christmas snow:-)

Eeeeeee! It's Christmastime!

About a mile from our house begins the City of LaFayette's Christmas display, where they have put a different set of decorative lights on the power poles. This runs all the way through downtown and almost to the middle school where I used to work (I still work for the middle school, just at the 6th grade campus now). When I saw the lights come on this Wednesday, I knew that it was Christmastime, so I went home and began working on this:

We had to buy a new tree this year because some of the lights went out on our tree last year (once I discovered pre-lit trees I decided I was NEVER putting lights on a Christmas tree again) and we were both too dumb at the time to figure out how to get them to work again.

So, we saw this baby in the Home Depot and said, "YEAH! Let's get a big tree!" We are in a much bigger house this year than either of us have ever lived in. But, the one thing that we both failed to take into account was diameter. So, that separate dining room that we were both so happy about is now the home of our Christmas tree.

The first thing I said to Jeff when we got it put together was, "I think we're going to need more ribbon." But I managed to make what we had from the past five years spread out enough. At the rate I receive Christmas ornaments from students, this thing will be full by the end of this Christmas anyway;-)

I have decided that these will be my favorite Christmas ornaments this year (I actually think that they look as good sitting here on my dinning room table as they do on the tree). They were a gift to me in January. They are very precious because they were made by a Roma person, better known to the rest of the world as a Gypsy. The Roma are very poor people and very discriminated against. Many turn to crime to survive, hence their bad reputation. But, as you can see, many also develop a trade to survive.


I have a very difficult time finding memories where my dad was happy at Christmas. He was often angry, but seemed to be even more irritable at Christmastime. But this ornament represents a surprising and precious memory to me. I still to this day do not know what sparked the desire in my dad's heart to do this, but I remember that I was out with him on a trailer run one day during Christmas break when I was a teenager and my dad wanted to stop at Roger's Christmas House off of I-75. When we left there he had bought these birthstone angels for my mom, my sister, and for me. I thank God that he gave me this memory to hold on to.







I have had this ornament since I was maybe four or five years old! I remember always thinking that this was me and Ann. As kids, I was blond and Ann had brown hair. I have always been about that much taller than her, too (except of course when she was born because there is a HUGE difference between a 14 month old and an infant).

This was one of the ornaments that mom let me take for Jeff and my first married Christmas. We would have had a starkly bare tree if it weren't for mom, Linda, and the ornaments that I got from my students that first year!