The Words From Kids

On Thursday Hannah went to a cheer clinic that the high school cheerleaders put on for a fundraiser. They will perform next Tuesday during halftime of the girl's basketball game. She was very excited & I really didn't get to talk to her about it because I had to work at the concession stand. So when I got home she came right up to me & she wanted to inform me what all took place at cheer clinic.

Hannah: Mom I want to tell you what happened at cheer clinic.
Me: Okay.
Hannah: Well I get to be on top of the period.
Me: The period? Do you mean the pyramid?
Hannah: Yeah the pyramid.
Me: Well I'm very excited for you.

She makes me laugh :)

My Family

Another LO for a challenge at AMR. We took this family picture for a surprise for my grandma's birthday.

This is a LO I did for another challenge at AMR. The picture is of Colton & Hannah in 2000.

Ice Day

Yesterday Colton came down feeling yuck and running a fever.



Isn't he pitiful looking? Dosed him up with medicine and sent him back upstairs informing him to stay away from everyone. It started icing but Madill was still opened for business. All of the schools around us was closed but not us. I got back home from taking Hannah and picking up the boys to start calling the dr.'s office. Finally got an appointment for Colton and he has tonsillitis, not strep thank you. Got a call from the schools and they were letting the kids out 1 hour early. The ice just kept getting worse and finally around 8:00 last night they finally put Madill on the tv for being closed, yea! I was glad because it gives Colton one more day at home getting antibiotics in him. If he doesn't get more than 3 absences the whole semester & he has passing grades he doesn't have to take semester tests at the end of school.

Here are a few pictures I took this morning of the icy trees.







Our goofy dog Max laying on the ice eating ice :)

This is a card I did for the card challenge at AMR. I used a sketch from here.

It got cold again. We are under a Winter Storm Warning. Colton had a basketball game out of town but it was cancelled thank you. It is just one of those nights to have a fire and to stay home. We heard thru the grapevine that the game for tomorrow night has been cancelled but haven't heard for sure. Our source is pretty reliable so I'm crossing my fingers.

Ice Fishing

So last Thursday Brent calls me and the following conversation occured:

Phone rings

Me: hello
Brent: I kinda got a wild hair up my butt.
Me: ok
Brent: I want to go up to Iowa this weekend and go ice fishing.
Me: huh?
Brent: I was thinking about going up to Iowa and go ice fishing you know I've always wanted to do that. Do you think Colton would want to go?
Me: uhhhh no!
Brent: Well I don't want to drive that far by myself.
Me: ok

In my mind he isn't going but sometime after that call he has booked a flight to Kansas City and headed out after work Friday. A little weekend ice fishing trip turned into 4 1/2 days business trip.

The following pictures were taken by Brent. I told him to be sure and get a picture of the shanty and the only reason I knew it was called a shanty is because I've seen Grumpy Old Men.



Making the hole.



Getting the ice out. And I must give a little shout out to Brent for capturing all of the steps of getting ready to ice fish. But where is the shanty? For some reason it was to heavy to move.



This is Paul the pond donor. Funny how the pond donor always catches the most fish. (note to Paul ~ Brent made me put that, sorry)



Doug caught a nice size catfish.



And Brent caught a itty bitty teeny tiny bluegill perch.




There's the shanty & if you can't bring the shanty to you,



then go to the shanty & use it as a windbreak.



This is Tom & Jane. Brent wants to say thanks for a wonderful time.

Birds of a Feather

A LO I did for a challenge at AMR.



The picture was taken on Christmas Eve after we took a family picture for my grandma. The kids were goofing around and I had my brother in law Rick take it for me. He said it was the best picture of the day. They are really sweet together when they aren't fighting :)