Happy New Year!

I hope every one had a very happy and safe Christmas and New Year!

My parents came to stay for Christmas -- and it was great! We didn't do a whole lot, but it was nice to catch up on reading and playing and relaxing!

One of our favorite "Christmas Traditions" is to go out to Chili's for dinner on Christmas Eve. The boys shared a dessert with Grampa --

It's a good thing they shared it -- it was HUGE!!! I think it's called the Molten Chocolate Fudge Dessert of Death... or something.

Christmas Day was nice and relaxing. We managed to keep the kids at bay until 6:30 or so. Then they just couldn't wait! Santa brought them both what they asked for -- I guess they had been good and stayed on the nice list after all!

The biggest hit presents were the PSP and the RockBand2/Lego RockBand for the PS3 we have. And the Lego's, and the video games, and the cars, and the dinosaur puzzle-statue thing, everything else! They really did bring in a good haul!

Thanks Aunt Jen & Uncle Will!!!!!

On Boxing Day (that's December 26th), Grampa brought Josh outside to teach him how to shoot a BB Gun. I don't know if you remember, but on Thanksgiving Day, Josh had his Cub Scout Turkey Shoot and didn't do so well with the BB Gun. So, Grampa brought his BB Gun and they really had a good time shooting targets.



Josh really needed Grampa's advice and loved learning how to shoot properly. In the end, he was hitting the targets, water bottles and tin cans every time!


Yesterday we had a snow day here in Georgia. It started to snow Thursday after school. The boys went out and played in the snow for quite some time! Friday we had a light dusting on the ground (and it's still there), but since the roads were covered in ice, they canceled school.


The boys played outside in the snow most of yesterday morning. But as they soon discovered, while snow is fun to play in, it's also cold and when it melts in your hands, your mittens get soggy!

I have some video of Josh shooting and the boys playing in the snow. I'll try to figure out how to upload it. I got a new video camera for Christmas and it's very cool!

For the new year, I will try my best to be more diligent in updating the blog! I sort of slacked off last year a bit... sorry! I promise I will try and do better this year!

Twice in a Week!

Snow!

In Atlanta!

Twice, in one week! Well 4 days actually!

Sam and I had a playdate with one of his friends this afternoon. While we were gone, Daddy and Josh had some fun!




Apparently, there was a snowball fight as well, but I have no evidence of that!

Yep, It's Come to This....

Even though I'm an "Army Brat," I consider myself from Michigan. My dad is from there so I spent a lot of time there growing up, no matter where we lived.

I spent 4 years of High School in the Detroit area. I went to college in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan.

I spent a year as an exchange student in Norway. I lived in New York. I lived in Utah.

I have spent my share of time in and around snow. Too much time if you ask me.

The first time I moved to Atlanta was in 1992. I was living here during the great "Storm of the Century" in March of 1993. While that was quite a bit of snow, I found the "Southern Reaction" to it rather humorous.

When we moved back to Atlanta in 2002, it was partly because we wanted to be someplace where we wouldn't get masses of snow like we get in Michigan. I like the 60-70 degree days we have here in the winter.

I remember about a year after we moved here we had a "light dusting" of snow. Work was cancelled. School was cancelled. You would have thought it was the End of Days. I was laughing at my "Georgia Born and Bred" neighbors who were outside making, what can only be described as, a DirtTwigGrassSnowMan. There was hardly enough snow to make a snowman, but they tried. As did many of my neighbors.

That was the last time we had any snow that "stuck."

Since Sam was born in 2004, there has been no significant snow (and by "significant" I mean more than flurries).

Well, yesterday we became "That Family." It's official.

It started snowing at dinner time. The boys quickly ate an acceptable amount of dinner, got their coats on and went out to "play" in it.

And I took pictures!



Trying to catch them:



Snow in Josh's hair:

Josh was so excited he called my parents in Michigan to tell them about the snow before he went to bed.

Our top deck showing the accumulation just before Rich and I went to bed:



It stopped snowing just before Rich and I went to bed. It warmed up and rained over night so most of it was melted thing morning.

And fortunately (for me), school was NOT cancelled!