A Warm up insight

We still have LOTS of Snow, but the forecast is calling for some warmer temps come this weekend...at this point 40 for us is a heat wave!! In the mean time the kids are building a tunnel with all this snow. The little ones usually do not last long out there, it was very cold yesterday.

FURY FRIENDS

I am a SUCKER for animals, a total trait I inherited from my mother!! Ruthie is our cat we adopted from the Humane Society.

Zeik is our Boxer we rescued through a local rescue. He really has a love/hate relationship with the cats of the house.

Zeik and is "usual" spot. Such a BIG baby!!

Smokey is the newest member she was also a rescue from the Humane Society. It took awhile for him to warm up to BIG ol Zeik...as you see here he still peeks around the corner too see where is big friend is.

iPad Madness

I stumbled across these pictures the other day while emptying my camera, I seem to always use my phone these days for pics. Mason's class went to the Apple Store for a study trip. He just LOVED it and learned so much. I must admit the iPads are neat and I would not mind one myself. However everything we have is Windows driven, and I have a Android Phone. We stopped into one of our local electronic stores the other day and the dude "almost" had me sold on the Verizon version. It is just one of those things, do you don't you....how many electronics are too many??

Mason enjoyed the iPad so much it was on the TOP of his Christmas list. Needless to say Santa must have lost that part of the list!!.

Blizzard of 2011

We here in West Michigan got hit pretty hard by the Blizzard of 2011. This meant 2 Snow Days in a row for my kiddos. Troy and I could not even make it out on Wed. This is how deep the snow was on our road before the plows came through.

Side of our driveway. The kids really actually have a hard time playing out there right now because the snow is so deep. However Mason is working on a cool tunnel.

We had to immediately go out and shovel our deck, our poor Zeik (dog) could not even make it out there.

Steps off the deck, so MUCH snow. OK you can melt now I am READY for Spring!!

SNOW

We here in Michigan are wondering if we will really get hit with this BIG Snow Storm. I really am keeping my fingers crossed it just by some chance misses us!! ON the flip side January FLEW right on by and February is here which means SPRING is getting closer. I really am just sick of snow. Winter just seems to drag on and on at this point. I am ready to pack away those snow pants, boots, etc...and dream of wearing those comfy flip flops and NO coat!!! Soon enough!!

Electronics

Peyton and his Blue DSi

Paige and her Pink DSi

Caleb and his DSi

Mason and his XBOX 360 Kinnect

I feel like Electronics these days are getting pushed on kids younger and younger. All our kids wanted for Christmas this year was electronics. Mason even went as far as asking for a iPad, like that is going to happen..Mom gets one first!!! They did however get their fair share of gadgets, and I just need to face the facts that we live in a electronic world.

Babies Babies and More Babies

Cayden Matthew.

Izabella Maja

My sister and my Best Gal Pal Darci both recently had babies. My Sister a Girl and Darci a Boy. It is so fun to get my baby fix and then give these bundles of joy back to their loving parents!! Lets face it as cute and cuddly as they are...I do NOT miss those sleep-less nights!!

I stopped at Babies R Us to get a gift for cute little Cayden and I was so shocked at how much "Baby Technology" has changed in just the few years. Cayden has a swing that looks as if it is going to send him to the moon. And Pack-n-Play these days they are like the Cadillac of pack-n-plays!!

I congratulate you both and welcome to parent hood!!!