~Record Player - Yes, a Record Player~

I’ve been bothering my dad to get out his record player for a while now. I have always kind of thought records were cool. Well Mom came up with the idea to decorate my bedroom walls with them. (Of course, we still have to finish my bed room.) The plan is to gather some records and their covers and then place them all over the wall.

Finally I convinced Dad to get the record player out and then set it up. We haven’t had it out since we moved from Chevington Village in Pickerington 5 or 6 years ago. It’s kind of old and the volume button is all messed up, but it still works.

Working on the wiring. . .

Whoo Hoo!  Punches on his man card! lol

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~Ugh. . .More Snow~

Yeah, so snow is pretty. But what happens if it all starts to pile up, cause problems, and won't go away?? Then it's not so pretty, but just annoying. Well, that's the path we're about to travel down all the way up here in North Dakota. The snow is blowing like crazy right now. When the snow is coming down in giant flakes from the sky, it looks so gorgeous floating down, right? Well when it's coming down from the dark, gloomy sky as small slivers (not to mention blowing profusely) it's not as pretty a sight.

Staring out the back door, I am watching the snow float, glide, and shoot down from the top of the earth. The visibility is not very good at all. There is no end to the grey that is covering us right now. The sun is no where to be found. . .just gloomy bleck. The day seems to be just dragging along, never ending. The wind is blowing the trees to and fro.

We are due for 6-10 inches and I am not looking forward to it. Kind of glad that Mom and I went shopping at Sam’s Club yesterday and stocked up on food. (We were seriously low and if we would have gotten snowed in we’d be living off of tree bark and ice. Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration.)

Though we went out yesterday, and the conditions weren’t snowy like today’s, it was still icy. Leaving our ‘neighborhood’ we had to stop at the end of the road to let a car pass. Well, the road isn’t flat; it’s at a slight angle. When the car had passed us and we went to turn out onto the road, we were stuck on ice!!! Mom was accelerating and the back of the car was swaying back and forth. She finally had to put it in reverse, and start back up the hill. We got out fine, but the roads were icy in Lincoln; or slushy gunk all over the downtown roads of Bismarck.

The other part that sucks about the snow out here is the fact that it is the light powdery stuff. Doesn’t sound that bad does it? Well, it’s not to an extent. With the high winds around here, all the powdery crap we call snow blows around and drifts. You all saw the snow drift in front of our house. Well, there are some that end up piling up on the roads and against the doors. See my point on how light powdery snow + 20plus mph winds = BAD CONDITIONS??

Along with listening to the wind blow against the house, the snow hitting the windows and such, we are also stuck listening to our dog. She’s made a habit of spending her days out on the back patio. Well, when the snow is coming down – and she is an indoor dog – we don’t let her out because we don’t want the smell of ‘wet dog’ in our house. She literally has been walking up to the glass door, pushing her head against it and wining so annoyingly that I’m even yelling at her. If that doesn’t work – which it usually doesn’t – she goes and sits in front of the front door even if she doesn’t have to go to the bathroom. She just wants to go outside! Then, because we know she just wants to be a pain and to just go outside, we make her go lay down somewhere else. She then will follow us around and guess what she does along with the constant shadowing. . .she wines. {Sigh} I know she doesn’t understand the weather or the fact that the temperature is cold no matter what time she goes outside, but couldn’t she cut us a little break? Luckily she’s lazy and sleeps most of the time, but when she’s awake. . .oh boy.

I think I’m done going on about the weather and what’s been happening. I hope I didn’t bore you. At least the nice thing about it being typed out, you don’t have to choose to read it all. You can just pick and choose which ramblings you want to read. Whereas, if I were talking to you, you’d have no choice but to sit it out and wait for me to finish.

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~Latch Hook Projects~

These are our latch hook projects.  Kenzie got a latch hook project kit for Christmas.  Her's is on the right.  The monkey.  Well, mine is on the left.  It has the pattern on the canvas, but I am barely done with the left side.  I've been working on mine since I was around 6 years old or so, and Kenzie started her's yesterday.  I liked doing mine for a little, but would usually end up going to read or do something else.  Kenzie on the other hand is the craftier of the two of us and has been doing it non stop since she woke up today.  She had two or three rows done yesterday and as of today she is almost half way done. 

You can definitely tell it's a head!

Atleast for me I (if I do it any more) have a pattern to color code on. Kenzie has to count all her's out, but atleast she can read the pattern well. 

Once Kenzie's finished with her pillow I'll put pictures up.

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~First Time Sledding~

OK, so we were really excited because this past Sunday we got to go sledding for the first time.  Yes, we have lived in Colorado, and yes we have seen snow, but no we have never been sledding.  It was SO MUCH FUN!

Zack was the first one down and Dad decided to go down with him.  Father-son sledding.

Then Kenzie wanted to go down with Dad.

Kenz and I went down together.  Can you see Zack right behind Kenzie?  The sled I'm bringing up was a church family's sled.  And the one Zack's holding is our sled.

Snowboarding and Sledding. . .

Kenz and I did the snowboarding thing. ha ha ha.  I need to get better at it.

I raced one of the girls from First Lutheran. (Nicole)  I can't really remember who won.

AND WE"RE OFF! ha ha ha

Then we had the race of the dads.  Nicole's dad is on the left and my dad is in the Cowboy's jersey.  (Let's just say he wasn't too happy about that game lol)

On your mark, get set. . .

GOOOOOOOOOO!

Yeah, my dad lost. lol

We had so much fun sledding with everyone and just sledding in general!

Can't wait to do it again!!!

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~The Early Bird Gets the Worm~

Everyone knows the saying: 'The early bird getsthe worm' right?  Well, these birds are really early.  And, I think they'll be waiting for the worm for a while.  I don't know how soon they'll be able to peck their tiny beaks into this frozen ground.  Hang in there, little fellows!  Spring will be here before you know it.

OK, so yeah, that's my boot.  Well, I wanted to go out into the back feild and take some pics.  (Since I haven't been able to take any yet, and I've been wanting to).  So, I started over the fence.  Let's just say I didn't realize how much snow was still piled up...

Yes, my boot is stuck in the snow.  And, my boot is kinda tall.  I'll just say this:  I have yet to be out into the back feild to get some more pics.  Ugh.  MELT, my Dear Snow!  MELT!!!

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~No Coats and Hanging in the Snow~

Yup, Zack and Kenzie are playing in the snow with no coats on.  The weather, as I'm typing this, is 50*.  Yes, that is 50* ABOVE zero!

They were having fun sledding down the hill.  What is nice is our actual hill has no snow left on it, but the foot or so snow drift next to the area where we were sledding has packed and they could sled down that.

'Ha ha! I have the sled and you're on the ground'.  lol

I was skateboarding on the driveway, and Zack came around the corner threatening me with a snowball.  Let's just say I made it clear that I was NOT dressed for a snowball fight!

Yay...I got to skateboard.  IN SHORTS!  YAY!  ha ha ha

What one will do for a run-away-sled.

The end result.

We had tons of fun hanging out outside without feezing ourtails off.  I just can't wait until all the snow is gone and I can be outside more often.

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~Singing and Fun Time~

Tonight we had Children's Choir once again.  This time however, we were at the church for an hour.  Everyone loved having the half an hour activity time after the half an hour practice.  We started a new song we're going to sing in February.  We went through the song about 7 or so times and even after one rehearsal they're doing a marvelous job.

Having fun after practice. . .

Kenzie and one of the other girls played Princess Monopoly Jr.

While the boys played Dinosaur Monopoly Jr.

(Let's just say that none of them like the Junior version.  They want the real thing.  I don't think they can play a true Monopoly game in half an hour, though)

YAY!  I got to put stickers on the Monoply dice!!!  FUN! ha ha ha  =)

So while the boys were playing Monopoly on the front side of the altar, the two other girls decided to play Yatzee on the other side.  I thought that was just too funny.

I think everyone had fun (especially after the rehearsal. lol) and I hope they enjoy every time they come for practice.  We just need to get them to stay settled down and focused when we're practicing. 

Wish us luck.

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