Shoot Me!: 6

Another great meme brought to us by Carin at Forever In Blue Jeans. Every Thursday post a picture of you with a child, spouse, friend or even by yourself. If you are thinking this challenge is to hard, then this is exactly the challenge you need. Do you have thousands of pictures and you are in none of them? How is that good to your children or loved ones? It’s time you got in the picture, you’ll be glad you did!

We had the largest snowstorm of the last quarter century this past Friday.  Really!  Seriously - it's been 25 years since we've had this much snow - all 5 inches of it!  Can you say exciting (or chaotic).  The problem...well...we haven't had heat in our house for 4 days except for our fireplace and one small space heater that gets moved around from room to room.  Yeah, our heater went kaput on us.  Nice timing don't you think!  No big deal, until we lost electricity.  The fireplace only heats up so much space, which does NOT include bedrooms & bathrooms, nor does it heat water or cook food.  Enter superheroes Shelly & Nathan!  They came swooping to our rescue.  But it was no "boring" rescue - they made sure we had fun too!  Jacob got to build a snowman (of sorts) with Nathan and have a snowball fight with Shelly.  Mom (that would be me) got to hold Lia as she was having NOTHING to do with that white stuff of the ground.  I think she has some deep seeded issues left over from her horrifying plunge into the snow on our trip to Minnesota back in December.  That whole "horrifying plunge" thing is me being a bit sarcastic....she did fall, she did think it was horrifying, we did pick her up (after taking pictures of course) and take her to the safe arms of Grandpa S. He was waiting to rescue his little princess in the warm and cozy house.  Without further ado...I present to you...Me* with Lia, Jacob, and the first snowman/thing ever built with Jacob's help.

Oh...and did y'all know snow is REALLY bright??  As in I could hardly open my eyes to look at the camera.  I know, I know, I'm the only one who's ever experienced this. ;)

The rest of the story...we got our power back on in the evening just in time to invite some very special guests over for supper.  Stay tuned for details about that...later!  Some of you will be jealous of who I got to play with (well, my kids got to play with her kids)  and I got to visit with her.  ;) ...others of you know who it was and can imagine what sort of chaos ensued.  We'll just say a great time was had by all!  Anyone care to guess who it was?  No spilling the beans from those who have insider info.  ;)