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| ROAR!!!! This is how they want to take pictures now.... |
That's kinda how January came in...with a roar. Quiet Christmas = Crazy January! You know, we were all excited for the cold of Tennessee after living in the "Tejas" heat for eight years. Well, we got it and then some. A couple of weeks into January, we had the threat of snow. It wasn't supposed to be too bad for our area. Of course, any snow seems like dangerous conditions to me. In south Alabama, if it got below freezing, schools and businesses shut down and every store sold out of bread and milk. Why milk, I'm not really sure. If the power goes out, where are you gonna put it? Outside, I guess. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. Wednesday, we stayed out of work and school because the icy roads. Which was fine by me. I've never had an experience with it, but I'm sure that black ice is not something I would handle very well. Thursday was great! It was supposed to snow Friday, but not until noon or so. School was open until noon so we took the boys and went to work...for about 5 minutes, because....snow!
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| The back yard early Friday. |
I was crazy excited because I have seen snow, but none that completely covered the ground! As the day went on, more and more snow fell. So, naturally, we got ourselves ready a la Randy from "A Christmas Story."
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| Get it? |
We went out and played for a little while, attempted snowmen and made some snow angels. We also found out that we were not fully prepared for this kind of cold. We did have a lot of fun, though. The boys loved it. I think they would've stayed out there all day. You know who else loved it? Sam!!! He was made for the snow.
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| Jeff was throwing a snow ball at him. However, eating the snow was what he wanted more than anything. Kids. |
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| Harrison had a little accident on the slide. Turns out, you can't climb up a slide in the snow. |
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| Mid afternoon Friday. All in all, I'd say our house probably got 3-4 inches. |
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| His smile... |
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| Of course... |
THEN, at some point, this little girl:
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| turned into this young lady: |
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| Yep, Jesie turned 19! |
For her birthday, Jesie, Katie, Taryn, Ella, Mom and Paul all came up here! It was so much fun. There may have been a few cheerleading stunts involved, but who knows about that. We had a cake for Jesie and Jeff since their birthdays are just a few days apart. There was also a huge meal and a Butterfinger cake. Taryn and Harrison stayed with Mom and Paul at the campground that Friday night, so...
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| There's these two kids... |
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| Aren't they precious? |
The next week, we celebrated Jeff's birthday; the big, ahem, 3-2. Of course, he doesn't look a day over 18. The man is not a big fan of birthday cake, so we grilled out at the Lukers' and got him a cheesecake! It was pretty tasty and he had a lot of help with his candles.
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| H got water or something on him, so he had to borrow one of Michael's old jerseys . I think he does this on purpose now. He has collected quite a few. |
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| Candles!!!! (and Huddy's hair) |
To be continued....
