Black and White Wednesday

These are the times when the fact that blogger cuts a small portion of

my photo makes a big difference...

but here is goes....

I'm participating in Lisa's Black and White Wednesday.

I took the photo in Em's room at night to

practice with manual without flash...

most of the time my images come out pretty blurry,

so this isn't too bad for me.

The original in color... You can see her flowers are starting to fade.

Happy Wednesday!

Knock Knock

Orange'cha glad I didn't say apple?

On the Third Day

On the third day off of school, we ventured to the lego store just to get out of the house.

Em brought Molly in her rain gear!

Can you see ALL the snow we had??

Stranded

Hotel Zone Watching Sponge Bob

Last weekend David had a conference in Asheville, and we thought it would be nice to head over there as a family to stay in a cabin provided by the local beekeepers. Despite a snowstorm heading towards the mountains, the conference was not canceled, so we thought if we could get up the hill before the real snow laid on the ground, being stranded in the mountains in the country might actually be quite fun. We knew Liam would not have school for at least two days.

Unfortunately we never made it up the mountain.

Apparently all of North Carolina does not believe in using plows -even in the higher elevations- and we got stuck in Hickory for the weekend... buried under a mere five inches of snow. So instead of sledding down hills and building snowmen, we were in a hotel for two days watching Sponge Bob. It was fun though... the kids LOVE hotels. We slowly made our way home on the third day.

The kids ended up having three days off of school....

We're Back!

Em and I spent the week cleaning downstairs while the upstairs turned into a hurricane zone. Guess what we'll be doing next week?

But we had a nice, computer free week until I finally was able to get to the mac store for help with my computer. Turns out 10,000 pictures isn't an appropriate amount on a computer. Who knew? So I bought an external hard drive and things seem to be running more smoothly.

We decorated a tad for the upcoming Valentine / New Year celebration.

Liam asked me why I had a "fat boy" sign on my wall.... sigh.

Be Back Soon

My iphoto library / computer is being a pain so I won't be doing any blog posts until I can get to a Mac store this Friday... weather dependent. Hope all is well!

Big Love

Ever have those weeks where you feel like you can't catch up?? That's me this week. Between Christmas and Disney, I haven't cleaned the house in a month, the laundry pile has grown to proportions that will take days to finish, and I'm behind with work. I haven't pulled out my camera since Disney. Not fun.

Today I did manage to clean the downstairs very well and do a few piles of laundry. So tomorrow will be another day of cleaning, laundry and running around. I'm hoping to be decorated for Valentine's day and Chinese New Year by early next week and then I'll have my sanity back. Maybe.

In the meantime, I'll highlight these adorable Valentine dolls from Roses and Rhubarbs. Tonya makes them and they are divine. So soft and cuddly. Em loves her fairy doll from Christmas. We will also be putting out new dresses this week too.... so you could buy a doll and some additional dresses for fun playtime activities. At least Tonya is being productive :)

Hope you all are well... hoping to catch up with my blogger friends this week too.