Interesting conversations in the car

Every other weekend I meet the ex half way to exchange kids. If is about a 45 minute drive and boy do we have some interesting coversations in the car. Yesterday was just one of those occasions.

Ashleigh, " mom why do we have eyebrows"?
Me, " to protect our eyes. We have eyebrows and eyelashes to catch things that might fall into our eyes and cause damage that could make us blind." (heck I have no clue if this is true but I have it in my head that I read it someone so we are just going with it. I think this is how urban legends are made)

A couple of minute pass and Ashleigh says, "mom did you know you have mites in your eye brows? " Me "What! Where did you hear that?" Ashleigh, "don't you watch the discovery channel mom?" "Well yea but I must have missed the eyebrow mite program! Yuck What do the mites eat, dead skin cells?"

Then out of no where Emily, ever the straight man chimes in with " I guess the crap that falls into your eyebrows" I was very caught off guard and had I been drinking I would have spit soda out of my nose. It was a good laugh and everything I have though about it today I have gotten the giggles. So i tht I would share it with you guys. I have it brings a laugh to your day.


In other news, we go a new dog. A girl at work was moving and could not take her dog and did not want to put it in the bulliten board because she wanted to make sure it had a good home. My girl friend Pam says I have a big red S on my forehead for sucker because if someone has an animal they are geeting rid of we end up with it.

Heidi is a sweet 4 year old Jack Russell Terrier. She sleeps in a pillow case, with the pillow still in it. It is the funnest thing and I need to get a picture. The only thing you see is her head sticking out.

That is it for now. I hope you have a great week


Christi

**SNOW**

The kids have been driving me crazy all week because the weather man said we might have snow this weekend. Ashleigh ask me last night if I thought it would snow and I told her I didn't think so. It was not cold enough yet for snow. So she told me when she said her prayers she would ask God to make it cold enough to snow. We woke up to rain this morning so there went the hope of snow right out the weekend. About 9:45 am the rain stopped and big fat chunky flakes started to fall. Ashleigh was over the moon excited. The last time it snowed here was 2001 and she was way to young to remember. So this is her "first snow ever". This morning she told me she prayed last night and God brought the snow. It lasted for a couple of hours and then turned back to rain so we have no more snow:(

Here are a couple of pictures.

And my big guy with his snowman:)

that is it for here today. I took enough pictures today to make a mini album so Ashleigh can remember the snow. I will post pictures when it is done. TTFN

I'm back!!!

Woo hoo I actually made it back to post again, lol I am already doing better then I did on my last blog. It has been a busy couple of weeks for us.


I am on a team with some girl at work to do Scale back Alabama. It is a 10 week program where each team member has to lose 10 pounds. Here is a link if you want to check it out: http://www.scalebackalabama.com/ I made diet journals for my 3 team member.






We mailed in Emily's application for Baldwin Arts Magnet. We got the receipt yesterday saying it had been received. Now we have to wait for her audition date. She wants to go for Creative Arts and we are trying out for Choral music too since she is on the honor chorus at school. She is nervous but very excited to hopefully get in.


Bear Exploration Center, the girls current magnet school participated in a community service project this year with ALL detergent (http://www.gogreenwithall.com/home/) We ended up ranking one of the top 10 finalist in America! We will find out this Friday who won the grand prize which is $50,000 for our school, a green solar powered ipod shuffle for every child at the school and a year supply of all for every family. The girls are pretty excited so if you have a chance watch the Ellen Degeneres show on Friday, January 18th to see if we won:)

Emily's room is decorated in Fairies. During Christmas I signed up for a newsletter at http://www.lifetimemoments.com/ that was 30 days of Christmas gifts. One of the ideas was for Sprite Christmas ornaments. I ran with the idea and made Emily some fairies for her room. Here are just a couple of the ones I made.

That is what we have been up to. Ta ta for now:)

Let's get it started!

I am going to do my best to blog. God know's I never shut up so blogging should be easy for me right? LOL My goal is 2 blog post a week and one project post a week.

I will start out with some pictures from Christmas. This year I finally got around to taking some pictures of my favorite ornaments. I plan to make a mini album with the pictures.

The kids got a WII for Christmas and we have all been having a blast.

Ashleigh can kick some serious booty on Bowling and lets us all know just how good she is at it. Last but not least Ladies and Gentleman Miss. Hannah Montana! This was wig was a hit and all the kids took turns wearing it. Craig made sure to snatch it off because I could snatch a picture! LOL


Tomorrow I will post some of my projects from the weekend and the fairies I made for Emily for Christmas.

Til then.

Christi