Weekly Winners

December 7-13, 2008

I love this shot, but don't know what to title it....

Snowman Kisses

Snowball Fight

Making a Snowman

Teamwork

We're so proud!

Aren't they cute?

Santa's Little Helper

Our Tree

Santa McShort

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Snow Play

So we have yet another cold snowy day. I don't really mind though. It's a good reason to be lazy and stay home. I think we'll put together a tray of goodies for our neighbors today and deliver them. We might need to do some more baking before we can do that though.

Yesterday we made a snowman complete with a carrot nose. I'm thinking there is enough new snow that we can make another one today. The news makes it sound like we're going to continue with this bad weather for a bit. They're predicting freezing rain too. We'll see. I'm hoping that doesn't happen though. That just makes me feel trapped.

My goal today is to do some scrapbooking too. We'll see though...Shorty doesn't like to be "ignored" and that is what happens when I scrap. I've tried having her in my scrap room with me, but she continually is asking questions and getting into stuff. Makes me crazy and I can't think. So we'll see. I actually finished 5 pages yesterday. Granted, 4 of them were already started, but now they're finished. Oh, and did I mention that they were from Christmas 2006? Yeah...I'm a bit behind....blah.

Haiku Friday

no school today,
Monday, Wednesday, late Tuesday
snow, snow, GO AWAY!

Santa Lovin' McShort

So Mr. Tall and I took Shorty to see Santa tonight. Her excitement was palpable. We arrived at the mall around 5:30 and Shorty chanted all through the mall, "where is Santa?". Unfortunately when we arrived at Santa's area he was out feeding his reindeer. I was sure Shorty would break down, but she took it all in stride.

We went upstairs and had a very healthful dinner at Taco Time. Yeah. Love those crisp meat burritos and tots. Mmmmmmm good!!

So after dinner we headed down to see Santa. We waited in line for 15 minutes. It was fun to see all these adults perpetuating the lie that surrounds Santa. Shorty was so excited to see Santa that she even brought him stickers. He politely re gifted them back to her. He said that Santa could do that. I don't think she got it. I wish he would have just put them in his pocket and said thanks. Oh well. He's a darling Santa and so sweet with all the kids.

If I can find the picture of Shorty screaming in Santa's arms a couple years ago I'll post it too. Last year we couldn't even get her to stand by him. Kids are so funny. Tonight we saw a few criers and screamers too.

"Snow" Day

Today was a snow day for me. Yeah. No snow here in "the 'couve" though. I was able to hit the grocery store and Michael's. Yeah. I finished off three scarves I'd made and did some baking. Did I get my school work stuff done? Not so much. Maybe later. I just got a text message that tomorrow is a two-hour late start day and the weather guys are saying that we'll get more snow Wednesday. What an interesting week.

Here are the chocolate dipped macaroons I made. Delicious, but really sweet!

And here are the caramels I made. Yummy, yummy, yummy! I only cooked them for 11 minutes though. Had I cooked them any longer they would have been toffee I think. Have I ever mentioned how much I love my Pampered Chef stoneware?
All wrapped and ready to go!

Oh and did I mention that my computer is shocking me? Yeah. I'm worried. The one year warranty is over and last time it was shocking me like this it died. Yeah. Fried mother board. Not good. All memory was lost. It really sucked and Best Buy really pissed me off. You can read all about it here or here or here or here.

Ok, it's really shocking me now...I've said way more f-bombs than you can imagine and I'm now getting afraid to touch this stupid machine. Dammit!

My 200th Post!!! (and weekly winners too....)

So I know I've been MIA for most of December....just too darn busy to blog I guess. So...this is my 200th post. Can you believe it? Me either.

November29-December 13, 2008

Snow!! It's snowing!! But not much...I'm really hoping we have a snow day tomorrow....

Our "new" rig...2003 Dodge Dakota. We like it. We can't drive it cuz it's not insured yet :(
My holiday nails.

Cooking McShorty helping to make cookie jars for Christmas Gifties. We worked on these a couple weeks ago and finished them today.

Just a little taste....

Ballet Recital McShort. Her recital was last weekend.

Shorty McFashion dancer is the one in the striped tights with hearts!

What Enterprise Rental doesn't know won't hurt them, right? We had to get our tree home somehow, and we didn't have a truck as Mr. Tall's was totaled. (we got a new rig yesterday)

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I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaack!

So let me just say that last week was one wild and crazy week, full of ups and downs. I had a lovely dinner at The Melting Pot with my gal pal Liane. We love going there and last week they had a fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Hospital. Nice meal, good company, great to get out.

Tuesday I had my author's class, which I really enjoy. But, it's all the way out to Marylhurst University. By the time I finally get home it's almost 9:30 p.m. A long day for me. I get up at 5am.

I was actually able to enjoy Wednesday evening at home with my family, thank goodness because on Thursday I was at work until 8:30 pm for the kids' music concert. What a late night. Sometimes I just wish I lived a bit closer to school. (I live 30-ish minutes away)

By Friday I was wiped out. Seriously wiped out. Oh and I think I forgot to mention that 3 weeks ago (or so) Mr. Tall was rear ended and pushed into a car in front of him. Yeah, the insurance people decided that our 2001 Ranger was totaled. Argh...I hate car shopping. And we couldn't do much shopping until we heard what the insurance company would be giving us for the truck. Thankfully they offered a fair amount, but finding something in that price range in what we want has been challenging. Every time we find what we want and call on it, it's GONE! Blah. So, we've decided to just have a broker do the job for us. If he's good I'll share the love on his information.

Oh and did I mention that we're also dealing with major daycare issues? Yeah...long story short, Shorty is gone from the daycare she used to go to. I really don't want to go into details here, but we've made a report to child protective services. All I can say is parents, talk to your kids. Listen so they feel like they can tell you anything and believe them. Trust what they say. End. of. Story.

We spent most of Saturday ironing out all the icky details of the daycare debacle. Today we got our Christmas tree. (and did a bit of grocery shopping) Yeah, without a truck we had to tie the tree to the top of the rental car. Thank you kind boy scout that helped to tie the tree on in the pouring rain. Yeah, he was a real boy scout. We buy our tree from the boy scouts' lot every year. Nice. What the Enterprise doesn't know won't hurt them. We thankfully arrived home with an unscathed car and a tree still on top.

Next it was decorating time. Shorty was so excited. She promptly unpacked all of the ornaments and spread them on the floor. I would have taken pictures but I couldn't find the camera. I found it after we had the tree decorated. Oh well. The tree is finished, but I'm not feeling like getting up and taking a picture and then uploading it. So stayed tuned.