Birthday Celebration!

This past weekend the weather was beautiful and Wyatt celebrated his birthday with a real John Deere tractor party and some family and friends. Aunt Erin did a great job with everything and I think the "kid crowd" would especially approve. Wyatt LOVED the cake and the other kids - he particularly liked hugging/hanging on Lucy - so sweet. He also started walking a little bit last week! I thought it was so funny to watch him stand up outside and try to decide whether to walk or clap ot the baby he saw on the ground (his own shadow). He is such a cutie. If you want to see Wyatt digging into cake and my kids having fun check out Aunt Erin's blog. Here are a couple of pics I got from the day -



Hey cousin Lucy - can I have some of that
Hey, can I get up there too.

One funny thing - Lucy wanted to share her food with Ruger (the three or four times she sat down to eat). I looked down one time and saw her drinking sweet tea out of her glass and then holding it down for Ruger to lick out of it too AND then return to drinking out of it herself. She didn't miss a beat and loved sharing her food and drink with the dogs.

Celebrations

This weekend will be a weekend of celebrating. Hopefully I'll be able to celebrate finishing my paper by midnight tonight BUT there are more joyful things to celebrate - like my nephew's first birthday! Can you believe Wyatt is 1? His birthday was the 16th and he has a big weekend of celebrating to do with lots of friends and family who love him.

Samuel and Lucy have been down on the farm for a few days and I hear Lucy has gotten a little too good at wrestling with Wyatt. Lucy isn't much bigger than Wyatt but the real wrestling will have to wait until Wyatt is a little older - may in a couple of weeks when he's bigger than she is - HaHa!

Here is a cute pic of him from this past week -


We will also be celebrating Abbey's new baby at a shower for her in Tally - just lots of things to be happy about. Hope your weekend is full of joyful celebrations too.

The numbers

1131 - number of emails in my inbox
164 - number of unread emails in my inbox
3 - number of pages left to write on this paper
8 - hours spent trying to write those 3 pages
6 - number of data reports to include in the above mentioned paper
2 - number of exams next week
- number of pages left to read for these exams
2 - celebrations I'll be attending this weekend for family members (nephew's 1st birthday, cousins baby shower!)

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Morning Snow

4 inches on top of the car
Our leaning snowman
He really got covered in snow throughout the night!

Lucy conquering the hill...

More pics for Papa to see the snow this morning.

Lucy in the Laundry basket

Lucy had a great time sledding in the laundry basket (the cookie sheet was a little hard for her to steer). She was most excited about making snow angels and eating the snow but here is brother helping her down in the laundry basket.

PS - Note to self - teach children how to put on gloves before it snows the next time - southern kids don't get much practice and my children have a hard time with those gloves!

Samuel on the Sled

Samuel's cookie sheet sled was a hit. He was pretty good at getting down the hill with stick in hand - we had lots of fun. He even laughed at me when I made it down the hill on the cookie sheet.



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Sledding

The snow was so blindingly white this didn't turn out very well but you can see the fearless Samuel sledding down the hill on the cookie sheet. Most of the time he also had a stick in his hand!

Valentine Snow!

It snowed today and we enjoyed every minute we could outside - and it is still coming down. Grandma has been here for a few days and she thought she was going home today - haha! Here is a peak at us playing in the snow when it first started. Papa - don't you wish you were here.

Snowman!

sweet children eating snow...


Here is our snow man - made before the snow got really deep....

And after the snow covered his hat and got a little deeper - it's about 5:45 and still coming down.

More Snow

Eskimo kisses
A cookie sheet and a laundry basket for a sled


MMM, yummy!