We had 14 or so 9 year old girls at the house on Sunday. It was a dog themed party. The cake was bone shaped, all the girls got little stuff animal dogs, they made things for their dogs.
Author: rusty
Last week was our ski week. The kids had the week off so we went to Tahoe for the week. We all did a lot of skiing (except Jax). Jax managed to find a couple of coyotes and protect us from them. The Waldens came up and skied with us. Margaret started snowboarding, Katy got better at it. Sam got much better at skiing. We also saw the eclipse, and the kids spent a lot of time outside in the snow playing. No one was ready to go home at the end of the week.
Elizabeth and I went to Tahoe this weekend and left the kids and the dog with Grandma (thanks Susan). Katy and Elizabeth went up Friday morning to ski with friends, I came up later Friday night. There was 4+ feet of snow on the deck. Katy and the others left at 2:30am Saturday morning, so Elizabeth and I had the weekend there alone. We got all the snow cleaned up on Saturday to wake up to a fresh batch on Sunday. I leave my snow blower near the front door so it I can use it to get out in the morning (if you look close you can see it). It is a Honda, so with a little digging it starts. Because of blowing, we ended up with about 4 feet of snow in the driveway that morning. Elizabeth wanted me to take out the trash. Needless to say, the snow is over some of the windows on the bottom floor and almost up to some windows on the second floor.
Elizabeth and I got iPhones a couple of weeks ago. We love them. They are great. I dropped mine from about waist level onto concrete the other day. I still love my phone, I am just not as happy. Now I have to go talk to the geniuses at the apple store and give them a bunch of money ($250) and they give me a new phone.
Still work to do, but check out the engine install on my other website.
Sam had an assignment over Christmas break to do something with the gingerbread man he made (or something like that). So, we took it to Tahoe and as we were leaving to come home, we took pictures of Sam holding it in front of the house.
Another Christmas. Lots of presents for everyone. Again the kids were up early waiting for their grandparents to arrive at 7am. After a few hours of mayhem, everyone was tired and the place looked like a tornado hit.
March 27, 1931 – December 21, 2007
My dad passed away early the morning of December 21. He had been struggling with cancer and pnuemonia. I was on the plane a few hours to be able to be at the funeral the next day. There were many tributes to him. The biggest probably being the front page of the Starkville Daily News. He also had a obituary in the Jackson paper and the McComb paper as well. A little over a month later, we all seem to be donig well.
We got our tree decorated today. We have to take pictures of especially who hangs the star each year so we can make sure that each child gets the correct turn.
Sam had a concert at school today. Elizabeth got a few movies of it.