cute

Ava came home from school today with a yellow rose from her boyfriend Aidan. Oh boy...

My sweet boy

Nothing is better than Drew using his eyes to find your face, and when he does find you - he smiles. Nothing is better than that.

Thunder Snow

Woke up yesterday to a few inches of snow which canceled school. Dave had the day off anyway, so that was good for me! It started sleeting, and then snowing again at about 3pm with thunder. It came down fast. I was glad Dave was home with me and not coming home from work. There are lots of stories of very long commutes home.

The snowfall count this morning was 10 inches of very wet and very heavy snow. Our first big snowfall of the season. Of course school is out again today and the courthouse is closed, so Dave is home again! The older girls have enjoyed the snow all morning, Jenna wasn't so sure, but didn't want to miss anything outside -standing from the highest perch possible, and Drew is thankful it snowed so he doesn't have to go to school. He'd rather be home and snuggling.

School tomorrow????

Court is in session

We've worked hard on "staging" our house for sale. So now after 8 years of endless toys, these toys are now cleared from our entry way/toy room and moved elsewhere. This room is now the office. With this change, the play has also changed.... Jenna is open for business.

FYI...come to find out the staging may not be the issue to sell this house - it may be the lack of hardwoods, granite and stainless that IS the issue... Someone help me....

Of Note.....

As of yesterday our house is back on the market.....

And out of nowhere.....

AVA LOSES HIS FIRST TOOTH!!!!!!!

Ava said she was now "off balance", and that she could stick her tongue through her front teeth!

How we roll........

Not much new here....just colds and cold snow days.....

Here are a couple of funny photos from the past few days.

First, there's Jenna tonight after dinner helping herself to a lollipop and my left over candy from Christmas. Don't know if you can make it out, but she eats her chocolates kind of like my Grandma did - takes a bite and puts it right on back if she doesn't prefer the taste - lots of half eaten chocolate pieces! And then there's Amelia playing her Leapster Explorer with her best buddy Ava taking a snooze right along side!