I am a horrible poster!

I just never seem to get around to it. We stay so busy (especially now living on 13 acres where there is ALWAYS something to do) that it is hard to find time for much other than that. Nothing particularly exciting is going one. We just got done enjoying Easter weekend with the family. It rained the whole time, but we still made the most of it - even Easter egg hunting in the house. Mom and Harvey are finally getting everything settled to finish moving here. Almost everything has been moved up to the new house; Harvey starts his new job today; and mom will be here for good in three weeks. I am so glad that has finally worked out for them (and us).

Kevin and I are still getting ready to make our trip to Key West in May for our anniversary (10 YEARS!!!) and our friend's wedding. I am really looking forward to the break and the time away together, but I know it will be hard to leave Colten. This will be the longest and furthest I have ever been away from him. At least I know he will be in good hands.

Speaking of the bear, he is growing like a weed and talking more and more in sentences and big words every day. I can't believe how fast it is going! Until I find something more interesting to talk about, enjoy some pics from the last couple of months.


Easter Sunday











Worn out after a hard weekend of playing












He has discovered playing in the sprinkler.












He's had several haircuts, but this is the first time he sat in the chair by himself. :)










Playing with daddy's hunting gear












He loves the Mickey Mouse Aunt Megan sent him from Disney!

Snowbound

our house in the snow

So, this is what it is like to be stuck in your own home. We have been stuck here for four days now. And, based on our recent excursion outside, we aren't going anywhere for a while. We thought we would go out and test the snow if you will. The car got stuck before we were even able to finish backing up. I walked a ways down our driveway to the top of the hill to the road, and the snow is up to my knees. With nothing but Honda Accords to drive, it doesn't bode well for escaping. So, as you can see, we are making the most of it and had some snow ice cream. Colten loved it!

pond frozen over

drifts on the south side of the house

Colten making snow ice cream

eating the snow ice cream

car stuck in the snow

Snow day(s)!

So, what a week we have had so far. Kevin started feeling bad on Sunday. On Monday, after getting him all the way to daycare, Colten decided to throw up so back in the car we went to come home. Took him and daddy to the doctor. Colten has RSV and daddy has Influenza A. FUN, FUN!

Add to that, we had a blizzard forecast for Tuesday, and it sure did deliver! I haven't been out and personally measured our snow totals, but we have some drifts that I bet are every bit of 2 feet high.

So, here we are, sick and homebound. I guess it's better to be sick and forced to be home than for the weather to be nice and you want to go out. Still, I will say that taking off all week was not a way that I wanted to use a chunk of my vacation days available for the year.

Colten is still coughing up a lung and has a runny nose, but he is running around and playing so I guess he's not doing too badly. Daddy is achy and miserable, but hanging in there. Temperatures are not supposed to get above freezing all week, so who knows when we will have enough thawing to escape. I'm certain that right now our little Honda Accords would get stuck in the snow before we ever made it out to the road down our 700 feet of driveway.


Colten enjoying his snow day


snow piling up around the sled


drifts to the south of the house


this snow was actually between Colten's
screen and window

Wow! Time flies.

I realized today that is has been a PROHIBITIVELY long time since I blogged. The holidays got away from us I guess. We very much enjoyed all of the holidays in our neew home with family all around. We have visits from the Cooks (coming from Austin) and Kevin's mother and grandmother (from Tyler and Nashville respectively). Of course, we spent time with all of my local family as well as my mom and stepfather in from Houston. Busy, busy, busy.

Colten had a great time with Christmas this year. He really loved seeing all of the Christmas lights around town, and he was super excited to bake cookies for Santa Claus. Even now, he says when we bake cookies, "Santa Claus cookies?" We aren't really grasping the fact that Santa comes once a year.

We have had a couple of rounds of snow (nothing major), but Colten really loves to look at the snow. It has been brutally cold with lots of wind both times, so we unfortunately haven't really been able to take him out to play in it.

On a random other note, do you like my new background? I chose it to (1) warm me up (it is freezing here) and (2) because it inspires me to hang in there for May when Kevin and I are making a trip to Key West for our 10th wedding anniversary/our best man's wedding. It should be a nice trip. We will be gone for five days/four nights, which will be the longest I have ever been away from Colten. I'm hoping that is not as awful as I fear it will be.

I'm going to do my best to blog more often, even if it is about mundane things. Until then, enjoy some pictures from over the holidays and such.



Like my shades?


Crashed out watching Veggietales



Playing "Colten's games" on my iPhone