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.  ;)

Daddy Time!

The kids are pretty much in love with their Dad.  And their Mom may be too.

Bright, Bright, Sunshiny Day!

Earlier this week we had a couple of BEAUTIFUL days! Sunny, blue skies and almost 70 degrees. The kids and I made the most of it and had fun playing outside for a while.  Back-sides, front-sides, and top-sides got all kids of dirty - but oh the fun that was had!  I have so enjoyed watching Jacob and Lia play together lately. Lia is getting old enough she can play with her brother, not just beside him. I know one day they'll start fighting with each other just like all siblings do, but for now they are the best of friends.  And that makes this Momma's heart very, very happy.

Jacob

I have more catching up from December I need to post on here but wanted to get these up before the weekend starts.  Sometimes I get to feeling guilty because I seem to take/ post more picturs of Lia than Jacob.  It's not intentional, it's just that the antics of a 16 mo old can be a little more candid and amusing than a 3 1/2 year old.  So...I took Jacob out earlier today and did a special shoot just for him.  He's in to airplanes and gloves right now - hince the airplane shirt, airplane toy, and red gloves.  They capture the essence of Jacob at this time in his life.  I've go so many other great ones that I will be editing and sharing later. 

Here's to you, my first born, my baby boy.  I love you more than you'll ever know!

Monkey Business

Before our trip to MN I got these hats and gloves for Jacob and Lia as I figured we just might need them up there.  Of course I had to do a little shoot before we left with them in their new paraphanalia.  They thought they were the coolest things with their monkey hat and gloves.  And I may have too.  ;)