Black and White

The other day someone asked me if I was in a funk....
My answer was..... maybe... then I wondered what in the world I looked like to prompt that ?.
January... or better yet... the one season I am not fond of (WINTER) makes me feel blah....

Then a few days later....
While eating breakfast with the littles I looked out the back door... from my breakfast chair... and the view outside was void of color. It was gray.....barely black and white.
The proof is below.....
This picture didn't capture the thin layer of misty fog hanging in the air.... which certainly didn't add much color to the scene.....


With December comes all the excitement of the holiday season. We get so busy in all the fun that I don't notice the lack of sun.

But January arrives and I notice.

Last January we were packing boxes, planning a move, and getting ready for a big change.

The previous January we were packing suitcases, planning for an addition, and getting ready for a big change. (Ty)

This year we are living our life as a family of 4.... in our home that we love very much!

We have SOOOO much to be thankful for... we have God, we have each other, we have family, we have friends, we have health, we have jobs, we have a home, we have food, we have clothing on our backs.... LIFE IS GOOD!

On that same gray day I took out my camera... something I have actually neglected in the last few weeks.... I took photos of Lily and Ty in their beautiful Chinese outfits (a yearly tradition) .
I thought to myself how thankful I am that even on such a gray day I am blessed with these little rays of sunshine!


Then I reminded myself that our gray view outside will be green again just like it was last year (this was taken the last week of April 2009)......

Pictures tell a story

OK.. I haven't posted in a while.....
AND... I know I've posted A LOT of Disne*y photos....
BUT.... I was looking through some photos
AND... I couldn't resist posting this little series.....

Handsome guy

I LOVE watching the birds in our bird feeders and so does Mr. Ty. He gets out our bird chart and points to whatever bird he sees outside....all the while yelling at me...
MAMA... Look there's a boy Cardinal....

We had this conversation the other day while watching a Cardinal at the feeder...

I said..... what a handsome guy....
Ty's reply was.... He's a handsome guy just like me Mama but he REALLY REALLY red.....
To which I said... he sure is.....

Is Christmas Over?

Aside from all the Christmas decorations being down you might wonder if it is still Christmas in our house. The littles are still singing Christmas carols, watching Christmas movies, and talking about Christmas.

They were all set to head back to school this week (preschool, ballet, Chinese school).... or should I say I was all set for them to head back this week. Awful I know.... I loved having them home the last 2 weeks of December but they were ready to get back to their routine and so was I.
On Sunday they both had a slight fever and sneezing. Monday morning it seemed everyone was fine. Monday afternoon everyone is acting very tired and says they need to take it easy. At this point I was thinking OH NO... they can't be getting sick. Tuesday morning comes and I was wrong... they were getting sick... the littles have been home all week.

Monday afternoon watching a show to take a little break (Lil's words..... notice how they set up camp right beside each other.... Lily is NOT picking her nose by the way...)

A Christmas show in fact....
If you walked into our house today you would have seen them set up on the couch the exact same way with this exact show on.....

After a week in the house I feel like this slinky....hee hee
This is Ty's slinky after the New Year's Eve get together at our house....
This was the only damage after 6 kids under the age of 6 played together for 7 hours....

Happy New Year

Happy 2010!

We had a great New Year's Eve with wonderful friends! The littles and their friends even stayed up to ring in the New Year at midnight. Here I was thinking they would be having meltdowns by 10.... seeing as they've never been up later than 10:30...... that was only once.....WELL... I was SOOO wrong... they were having too much fun to call it a night. They even slept in the next morning.

Lily took this picture of Jeff and I right before the countdown....
Lily sitting on Prince Brady's lap counting down the minutes to 2010...
She always calls him Prince Brady....He is such a sweetie...
She even had him twirling her like a princess....