Merry Christmas...

Thankful for answered prayers...

I would like you to meet my new best friend...The Generator. Oh how I love The Generator. When your power goes out for two days it allows you to have heat and light and maybe watch a little TV (ok, a lot of TV). Because you see when you are confined to one room in your house with all three of your kids for two days you start to go a little crazy. We made the best of the situation. We played Memory, Sorry, Triominos and even tried Monopoly with the kids. We snuggled on the couch under blankets and read books. We drew pictures and decorated the tree. Yes, I just said decorated the tree (we just hadn't got around to it).

But I must say that I was so thrilled to learn the power had been restored late last night. I have to say thank you, thank you, thank you, to the people working on the power lines all night to fix it. My first order of business this morning was a warm shower. Ok maybe I read some blogs first then got in the shower.

I hope you all have had a safe time in this crazy weather we have been experiencing.

I will post some other photos later. Obviously, I took some photos of everything frozen in place by the ice.

Oh and by the way, I am addicted to blogging, because of all the things that I could not turn on while the power was out...I missed my computer the most...and it made me really grumpy.

These might be one of Grandma's Christmas Presents!

Anything to get a good shot and some practice...

Me: "Bodie, Bodie, look at Mama, Yoo Hoo, Bo Bo, over here, where's Mama, peek-a-boo"
(and making other various noises to get him to look at me so I can practice manual focus on my camera)
Bodie: "Brrrrrrm"



Me: "Bo-man do you see the bug in Mama's camera?"
(Pointing to the lens and trying to manually focus at the same time)
Bodie: "Huh...bug, what bug?"



Me: "Where's the bug?" (still adjusting and tweeking the camera like I know what I am doing)
Bodie: "In there!"



Me: "Good Job! Where's the bug?" (I'll get this yet)
Bodie: "Right there!"



Bodie: "Are you sure there is a bug in there?"
Me: "Yep, it's there keep looking"



Bodie: "Mama, you're silly"
Me: (Standing on a chair with a Pez dispenser in the Hot Shoe of my camera) Hot Shoe - where the flash attaches

Cooter:

"Hi Amber!"

Note: Click on Cooter to fully experience how "fury bear" he is...I couldn't get a larger photo of him on here last night for the life of me. I have the worst problems with photobucket and blogger sometimes....Yikes!

Landscape...

I have been trying to figure out what size I need to make my landscape photos so they show up in there entirety. Usually the right side gets cropped off. So, I am just testing things out.

Yippee!!!

I'll be in the kitchen if you need me...

Moo!

Me: "Where are the cows Bodie?"

Bodie:

Smokin' Deal at Amazon

I just bought this for Avery at Amazon. I have wanted to get it for her for awhile...it is 89 bucks at Walmart and I got it for 29.99....WHOO HOO!!!

I have seen it in person at a friend's house and it is really cute!! It is kind of big, so you need to have space for it. With the winter months coming up, I thought it would be a fun little hide out for her.

By the way, Amazon has some really good deals. In fact, this little playhouse was 49.99 two days ago...then this morning it was 39.99...this evening it was 29.99. I ordered it this morning and I called Amazon and they honored the 29.99. Now that is how to earn repeat business!!!

"Wheel" Fun!!!

This is how Rowdy spent most of his Thanksgiving break. He is getting more and more confident on the bike. He was so proud of himself. Mainly he was impressed with how dirty he got. He kept telling me "Mom, the mud just kept splashing up on me and the bike!"