SNOW

The next few days are forcast for rain (which will hopefully wash away the snow, but means lots of indoor time!!). So today we put on our snowsuits and went to the park for 2 hours :) We had the whole park to ourselves!

Lina and Bell playing horse on the swings.

Sisters :)

"Fishing" with willow branches down by the stream.

Bell taking a rest.

Our smiley girls on the tire swing.

ledding after the first big snow two weeks ago..........

Bell pulling Lina.

Bell and Chyenne.

Austin and Lina.

It is great to have teenagers who can run up and down the hill again, and again with the little ones!!!

Lina gave up sledding and just sat eating snow :)

It finally has a home....................

TOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!

We were playing chalk in the driveway yesterday. The weather was beautiful, the yard is still full of snow and mommy had to go put back up the mailbox the plows knocked down!!
We made a sign for daddy.........

Then Bell drew a picture of daddy next to it, and INSISTED it be anatomically correct.........

But mommy, I HAVE to draw a penis. I tried to say daddy was wearing clothes, but that did not go over.

TOO FUNNY!!!!!

No wonder he has a BIG smile on his face :)

Every kid does it once.............

OK, as a disclaimer, Grandma Tuscano, you are NOT going to want to look at these pictures!!

The little kids scissors, the ones that barely cut paper............they cut hair GREAT apparently!

Daddy trimmed the girls hair yesterday and apparently today Isabella decided to go shorter! (Bad pics, from the phone). She had a big smile when Austin and Chy caught her and said "I am cutting my hair!".

Which prompted her first visit to the salon, because there was no way I could fix it! The right side and back was cut almost to her neck!

Well she had fun and got a lollipop - although she did cry on the way home becasue she did not want "everyone" to be mad at her!

Her pixi cut is cute on her, but it is going to take FOREVER to grow out!!

Just a dusting

Today we got maybe an inch of snow and about the same one day last week. Seems our freinds in Delaware are getting all of our snow this winter!

Our sonw lady was about 8" tall.............

with funky pine neddle hair :)

Next years firewood :)

We lost a tree in our yard in last weeks wind / rain storm. It was partially dead already, which I am sure helped the process. Thank goodness it fell left instead of right (into the Tiki Hut) or forward (the house!!).

And another tree lost a branch which torpedoed into the shed roof...........

and made a bit of a WHOLE!!

The tree.

It was a BIG one!

OK, how do we get rid of that root??

Looks like it took out hte light on the tree next to it - the one set up to play horseshoes at night :)

And it took out hte top half of the Holly bush / tree.

Good thing Don got a ChainSaw from Christmas - it will be put to good use come spring!!

NEW ORLEANS NFC Championship Game!!!

Don went down to New Orleans last week for the NFC Championship game - and the SAINTS are going to hte Superbowl for the first time ever!!!!!!!! Boy did he have a great time!!!

Don decked out New Orleans style!!

THE dome.........

THE game!

The game from the nosebleeds :)

GO Saints!!

The celebration after!!

PARTY!

SUPERBOWL BOUND!!!

The FANCY bedroom

The girls are LOVING the Fancy Nancy books Grandma T has gotten for them!! Well, Fancy Nancy has a canopy over her bed, and Bell really wanted one. So the curtians hanging on the sides of the Art Gallery Frame have become canopies for their beds, with a little help from my mops and brooms, as well as our collection of silk scarves - very FANCY!!
This was a week ago, the brooms have since been replaced with tent poles, as I do need to occasionally clean :)

Christmas

We were so blessed this Christmas. The girls are old enough to really begin to understand the true meaning of the holiday. We bought toys and food to give to others who have less than us, and kept our spending on each other less out of control. Something we began this year that I think we will continue is three presents per child on Christmas morning, as the wisemen brought to Jesus.
We had a fun Chrsitmas eve and Steve and Gina's house with the Barry's, we opened gifts and had a delicious dinner! The kids really enjoyed playing together!
Christmas morning we opened gifts at home and then went to a beautiful service at Saint Stephens. In the afternoon Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Ed came over for Christmas dinner and gifts. It was so nice to have family for the holiday in our new home, something we were not really able to do in Delaware because we were to far away. I thought I left me camera at Steves, and did not find out until Christmas night it was in the bottom of my bag!!
The biggest dissapointment was that daddy eneded up working so much over Christmas. He missed Christmas Eve on Long Island, but did go in at 4 AM on Chriatmas morning and got home just as we were opening our stockings!!! He missed church to sleep, and fell asleep after we opened presents in the evening. Poor daddy, our new years wish is that the job calms down so he can spend more time home and with his family!! As I write this he actaully has the whole weekend off, his boss told him he HAD to take both days unless it was an emergency, yeah!

Lina opening presents.

And Bell.........in their clothes before the dress up gifts.............

Katie and Emily helping the girls open their gift from the girls.........and it is............

A whole box of dress up clothes!!! The cheer leader...............

The singer...........

The movie star............

We are in trouble in a few years............

Gianna read the Night Before Christmas to the girls (a gift from daddy, but he was not there to read it).

And we can't leave out AUSTIN!!!!!! No dress up clothes for him, just gift cards and money, his favorites!