Last time it snowed

                                 Neighborhood boys all at our house working on building an igloo

Making sugar cookies with Sam

 i can't get them all in order but here is Sam making sugar cookies. He cracked his own eggs and everything.  He was very proud of himself

Go Sam, Go Sam, It's your birthday, It's your birthday

First Snow of the Winter

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We had our first snow yesterday! I remember how excited I would get as a kid when they called for snow and I am not sure that has changed even now that I am older.  I love the quiet that comes with a blanket of snow. 

                                            Caleb all bundled and ready to go play

                                     Seeing Sam so excited was one of my favorite things

     Sam started the snowball fight and hung in there until his face was completely plastered

                                      Not a great picture but the stillest I could get Sam to stay


Daniel had a parade yesterday plus the football game so it was a cold 9 hours for him.  Luckily we lost the game so we are done for the year! While at the game Daniel decided to start a snowball fight in the stands.  Soon a lot of the band kids and some of their parents were joining in until an announcement came over the loud speaker saying they would escort anyone from the premise who was throwing snowballs.  That is my husband : ) He thought about throwing a few more just so he could leave and get warm but decided that might not be a good idea.

I feel resentful today. I am not who I wanted to be and thought I was going to be.  I guess I should just suck it up and accept this is who I am but it is hard.
  I always love to dream cause I never have to use a cane and can run, jump and do whatever...last night I had a cane in my dream.  I was back at Liberty running free but knew I should be using a cane and I would go looking for it.  It makes me so sad that my cane has made it into my dreams.  Before, even though it was just a dream, I felt normal and now with the appearance of the cane I feel as if my world is getting smaller.  My dream world was the last one I had that I was the old me and I can't describe how it feels to lose that.  

Ho Hum Day

Not much happened today that was exciting. The boys went back to school which was nice to have to time to breath during the day but Sam kept asking when I was going to drop him off at school. Karen came to clean (days with her can go either way but today was good) so now we have a clean house for at least 24 hours.  Emily stopped by and we are excited about her house which she is going to look at tomorrow.  We are already planning on the boys sledding and me having hot chocolate at her house when it snows since it is right across from the sledding hill : ) I hope we have another white Christmas! Last year was my first and I loved it!

Thanksgiving Pictures

Keeping up with the rest of you guys

Since everyone has a blog now I guess it is my turn. Today was pretty lazy, we all watched Elf and got the stockings hung by the chimney with care. Sam is so excited about all the decorations but keeps pulling the ornaments off the tree. We were trying to be environmentally conscience and bought LED lights for the tree this year. We put on 400 lights, didnt think it was enough so Daniel went and bought some more. Put those on and still thought it looked horrid so we took them off and started all over. They are on but we just don't like the LED at all. The lights have a bluish tint and just dont look like they should. We thought about taking them all off again and just putting the old ones up but I think we might just try to make it through the season. Well that's about all I have right now.