SNOW ON TOP OF SNOW

Pic from tuesdays storm.

SNOW MUCH FUN

Friday afternoon we dug out and made it up to the grade school to do some sledding. Luckily we only had to go about a mile and half.

The inner tubes are awesome! Much better than our plastic disk.

All the neighbors and kids met up to sled for about two hours.

The grand finale. All the kids held onto each other as the went down.

MORE LEGO FUN

Putting together some of her birthday legos all by herself!!

SLEEPOVER

Crazy sleepers.

5th BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

We celebrated Violet's birthday with her friends at Custard's Last Stand. Her official birthday is still two weeks away but we decided to have a party early because Aunt Karen, Jackson and baby Gillian came to town.

Had lunch before all the fun.

All the kids got mouse ears. Made from dollar store headbands and felt.

Rolled his eyes at me when I asked him to put the Mickey ears on.

Violet wanted a Minnie Mouse birthday party this year. Although after our Disney trip I'm surprised she didn't ask for a princess theme. Got to use our Disney mouse ears again.

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Had a blast with all her friends. 13 perfect kids!

Happy birthday big girl!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Violet got some new jammies from me and legos from Daddy.

Very excited because they have Sophia from Sophia the First on them. The new princess cartoon on Disney Jr.

 

Girl Legos!

READY TO PARTY

She's very excited about handing out Valentine's at school today. Her Valentine's Day dress from the past two years officially doesn't fit. Pretty good getting 2 years out of it though.

We did some fancy hair this morning. Braided heart hair.

ANGRY BIRDS

Thanks for the game Grandma F.

BIRTHDAY DRESS

I finished Violet's birthday dress this weekend.  She has asked for a Minnie Mouse birthday party. Which I agreed to. What she really wanted is a full blown Minnie Mouse costume. I said no. I told her if she still wants to dress up as Minnie for Halloween I'd make her the dress. So we compromised and ended up with this. She'll wear this dress for Easter and preschool graduation and I didn't want her looking like a cartoon character.

ICE CREAM PARTY

We celebrated Addi's birthday with ice cream sundaes Saturday evening. Look at all the toppings.

Violet went a bit overboard. I think even she realized it because she didn't even finish half of it.

While Chris was away we played a lot of dress up. Violet wanted me to do her hair like she had done in DisneyWorld. I did it minus all the hair gel.

MICKEY WATCH VERSION 2.0

This is my second reproduction 1930's Mickey watch. The first watch was bought in 1993 after one of my first paying mural jobs. I wore that watch a lot. About two years ago it stopped keeping time correctly. Thought it was maybe the battery. After having it fixed twice I basically found out that it's almost impossible to fix old watches. The insides of watches today are made with thinner gears. So to fix my old watch you'd have to find an old watch with similar insides to use. Kinda sucked. I even took it to Disney World because I had heard that the jewelry shop on Main Street could fix it. Apparently they no longer do watch repairs.

While in Disney World I saw the current reproduction watch. I did not buy it because I refused to spend the $250.00 they were asking. When I got home I searched around on the internet and found that I could purchase the watch from Ingersoll, the watch maker, for half the price. Yay! When the watch arrived I knew I'd need to take it to a jeweler to have some links removed. Almost two weeks later I got it back. A little confusion of how many links I wanted taken out plus they broke the glass, led to the delay. But now I have it! Compared to my original this one is better made. It's made of stainless steel, not nickle , has a larger turn dial and is a wind up. I think my first one is actually closer in appearance to the original because of the thin metal, but I always had problems with the clasp on it because of the thin nickel.
The watch repair man I dealt with told me about a man who brought him one of the original watches for fixing that was given to him by Walt Disney.

WEEKEND PROJECT

I thought I'd take advantage of the long weekend and work on the continuing office makeover. Chrise took down the chandelier that we kept running into and put in a ceiling fan.

We've added the chair rail and trim just like in the foyer. This project did not get done this weekend thanks to three different Lowes not having the trim we needed in stock. Were told it would take about a week to get in. So the room is about 75% done. I got the back wall and window wall done so I could push the furniture back. We're going to carry this up into the hallway upstairs too. Room still needs an office chair and someday crown molding.

STAR WARS LEGO NIGHT

Helping Daddy build the Rancor set.

Rrrrrr...Rancor eating the piggy guard!

FRIDAY NIGHT SWIM

Forgot I had these on my phone from friday.

Swimming at Legacy Park indoor kid pool.

NATIVITY PLAY

 

Here are pics and video from the Nativity Play from school. It was rescheduled after New Years because of bad weather at the end of December. Violet originally wasn't going to be in the play because we were in DisneyWorld at the time it was scheduled. But since the play was rescheduled they decided to add her in and give her a part. With only two days of practicing I think she did pretty good. Very nervous but she managed to get the words out.

Click play then click on the YouTube button on bottom right. This will open in it up in YouTube. Once it opens in YouTube click the second rectangle at the bottom right. This will make the screen bigger.