Where Do We Put the Snow?

• We're supposed to have another snow storm come through our way. I'm wondering...where do we put it?
• Omaha is under an emergency because we've already maxed out our budget with the snow crew.
• We can not open our back door. Not even enough for me to get a picture. I had to shoot this out our kitchen window. If I tried to go through the other way to clear the snow I can't. It's simply drifted up our fence.

• Look at our porch railing in the front. Some of that was from the snow Daddy cleared off of the roof.

Chasing the Dog

• Isaak ran after Aunt Angela's dog for 2 hours. He giggled the whole time.
• Mica asked, "Can we have a dog?" I said, "Sorry Mica, Mommy is allergic to dogs". One other time he asked me the same question and I said, "If we get a dog...then you'll have to get a new mother".
• He seemed to understand.

Rooted?

• Grandma Spiehs got me these root earrings from The Afternoon. I simply love that store!
• A few days ago I was wearing them. We were all at the dinner table. Mica stopped eating, and turned his head as close to upside down as he could go.
• I asked him, "What are you doing?" He said, "I'm trying to look at your earrings the right way".
• He thought they were trees, not roots.

Slumber Party

• Mica went over to Aunt Terra's for a slumber party with cousin's Evan and Ethan.
• I told Terra that Mica was already pretty much toast. He wouldn't take a nap today and went down last night late, 10 pm.
• When I called to tell him, "Goodnight" he sounded sleepy. She said he was quiet all night. He either gets quiet when he's really tired or giddy. Most of the time giddy.
• She was having them go down at 8:30 pm, a 1/2 hour after their usual bedtime.
• Poor Ethan's bedtime is 9:30 pm. Terra asked if he'd mind going to bed early? He said he didn't mind because he went to bed on New Years Eve at 1 am. He was tired too!

Bring in the New Year With Some ZZZZZZZZZs

• I came home early New Years Eve day. I went ahead and got all the Christmas tree decor off and in boxes.
• Mica woke up from his nap and told me that we needed to put the tree up again. I remember feeling the same way when I was a kid.
• We had pizza rolls, carrots, celery, apples, hummus, spinach artichoke dip and crackers for dinner. We ate out in the living room, which we don't normally do.
• Isaak LOVE the hummus! You can see it dripping down his chin! If it were up to him, he'd double dip multiple times!
• Daddy made a fire and set up tent's in the living room.
• We had plans of camping out, but Isaak never took a nap all day, so we put him down at 7:30 pm.
• We got Mica set up in a sleeping bag and mat at 8:30 pm. Daddy put Mica in his room when he said that he couldn't sleep at 10 pm.
• I fell fast asleep before Mica at 8:30 pm.
• I couldn't help it...days of scooping snow and waking up 2 times a night from Isaak caught up to me. I was tired.
• Daddy fell asleep at 11:30 pm. I felt for him staying up by himself when we had plans of camping out in the living room.
• We topped off New Years morning with sparkling grape juice and playing in the tents Daddy made.
• I do have to say that the boys didn't get into the tents as much as Daddy or I did when we were kids. Isaak sort of acted as if it was a normal part of our living room decor and Mica sat in it for a little bit, but soon moved off onto the couch.

Top Names of 2009

• Baby Center always puts out the top names of the year.
• I'm a HUGE name buff, so I wanted to put them on here.
• I don't see Isaak (Isaac) or Mica (Micah) on the list, but I've heard Isaac used a lot. Isaak's middle name is Jaxon (Jackson is number 6). I don't see Mica's middle name Zachary.
• My nephew Elijah is kind of like Isaak, I hear his name a lot, but it's not on the list. Ethan is number 1, Evan is 19; they are both nephew's of mine.
• Oh...and Alyssa is number 22. I was one of the only Alissa's (spelled different) growing up.
• We talked about Nathan for both of our kids, and that is number 18.

1. Ethan/Isabella
2. Noah/Emma
3. Jacob/Olivia
4. Aiden/Ava
5. Logan/Sophia
6. Jackson/Madison
7. Jack/Chloe
8. Ryan/Abigale
9. Jayden/Addison
10. Matthew/Emily
11. Liam/Ella
12. Joshua/Lily
13. Tyler/Mia
14. Benjamin/Grace
15. Gavin/Alexis
16. Alexander/Avery
17. William/Samantha
18. Nathan/Elizabeth
19. Evan/Hannah
20. Lucas/Taylor
21. Mason/Natalie
22. Michael/Alyssa
23. Dylan/Sarah
24. Caleb/Hailey
25. Luke/Riley

• I like different names that can still be pronounced. Below is my list of names.
• We are not planning to have any more children, I just love names! Each name I like has a special meaning in my mind. It may be a special place, a person or a character in a movie.
• If I had to make up my own list of top 10 names I like they'd be:

1. Mica or Micah/Savannah
2. Isaak or Isaac/Scarlett
3. Harrison/Kirsten
4. Samuel or Sam/Aurora or Rory
5. Jaxon or Jax/Nodiya
6. Zachary or Zach/Shannon
7. Nathan or Nate/Amelie
8. Jonah/Coraline
9. Trent/Mallory
10. Carter/Cheyenne

Phone

• Isaak loves the phone, when no one is on the other end of it that is.
• He kept holding the phone upside down at first.
• He kept saying, "Hello", but then when I took the video he wouldn't say it too clearly. I was too late for his clear, "Hello". His, "Goodbye" is cute though.

Monkey PJ's

• Isaak in his monkey PJ's.
• I think he's so cute in them!

Another Gift Down

• I spotted another gift for Mica's birthday. His birthday is not until Augusts, but I buy when I see things.
• Daddy and I thought this bowling set would be fun playing down our hallway.
• We have a sleeping mat the folds in sections, so we'll probably put this behind the pins. I don't think the pins will hurt anything because they are protected by foam rubber.
• There is just so many toy deals going on right now. I've bought a few things and stashed them away.

Snow

• It snowed again this morning!
• We went out to take care of some snow while the kids were down for an afternoon nap.
• I shoveled out the other 1/2 our driveway. Minus the tail end of it. I just ran out of time. There is room to park the other vehicle in that lane now.

• Daddy went to Ace Hardware to get a roof rake.

• The snow was pretty thick on the roof.
• He went up on the roof when he realised it wasn't slick and just started shoveling it off.
• Our neighbor across the street asked me if Travis' life insurance policy was up to date? Yes it is, but if he felt in danger he would not of been up there.

• Thankfully the kids slept well and we got almost finished. I kept going in to check if they were awake. I also kept yelling out Daddy's name when I couldn't see him in fear that he might have fallen down. He was just on the backside of the roof.
• We'll be sore tomorrow I'm sure!
• There is more snow to shovel around the front of the house where Daddy shoveled off snow from the roof. A little back tracking needs to be done.
• We can't open our back door more then a foot. We have our compost bin outside that door. I hate compost sitting inside the house. The trash stinks faster when it's put in there.
• There is a huge drift outside the back door that goes to the top of the gate. Even opening the gate to clear the snow might be a chore.