Snow Day...Take 2

So we woke up last Friday morning to more snow.  Lucky for me I'm off on Fridays so I didn't have to worry about going to work or wasting any of my vacation time because I had to stay home.  Brandon got home from work early so we loaded up to go pick up a few things from the grocery store and came back home to let Austin play.  Here a few pictures from our time outside.

He loves to catch the snowflakes on his tongue.

 Snow Angels of course!

 Building a "Snow Monster" with Daddy.  He didn't want a snowman.

He's got his snowball ready to go!

Just being silly!

Monster Jam

Otherwise known as lots of fumes and loud noise!  Brandon and I along with Papaw, Scooter and Mikey made our first Monster Jam trip on Saturday. 

We started out making a stop by Kroger for me.  They were having a good sale and I wanted to get some things.  I'm still really irritated that we don't have a decent grocery store around here anymore and Wal-Mart is NOT my favorite place to shop :(  Nothing I can do about it though...moving on.  Papaw took us all out to eat at El Porton Mexican and it was really good, but wouldn't you know that Austin didn't want to eat he just wanted to play, but after a few forced attempts Brandon finally got him to eat a little something!  Next stop was Monster Jam...

We've watched it on TV several times and I must say that the TV version was better than what we saw.  Maybe it's because Verizon is a smaller arena compared to what we've seen on TV and they weren't running on dirt plus they just didn't have the room to do a whole lot of showing out!  The kids all had a good time, but if we go to another one I'd like to go to a bigger arena.  And earplugs are a MUST!!  Austin didn't want to wear anything on his ears (hard headed as usual) so ended up with his fingers stuck in his ears or just nothing at all for most of the night.

I had to take all of my pictures with my Blackberry because as usual my camera battery was dead.  I might have got 3 pictures from it.  I should have known to check the battery as they tend not to hold up very well, but at least I had my phone.  So here are the photos from the night!

Wearing his Monster Mutt hat that came with his cotton candy

Daddy feeding him his snow cone.  That ice was hard as a rock and it was getting everywhere.  For $10 you should at least be able to eat it!

El Toro Loco

Destroyer

Grave Digger

Finally able to eat his snowcone by himself

Sleet...and Then There Was Snow

We don't get a lot of snow here so when we do it's like we've won the lottery!  No school, no work...it completely paralyzes this part of the world because we are just not used to it.  It started Sunday morning with sleet and finally turned into snow.  Austin was soooo excited about it.  He probably looked out the window 1000 times on Sunday looking for snow!  Once it started and a little got on the ground good I suited him up and let him go play.

Making snow angels

Again

Catching snowflakes on his tongue.  He was super excited about this.

Building snowcastles with Scooter.

Time for a hot chocolate and fruit snack break.  It was so cold out.

Day #2.  We all got to stay home on Monday so we got out the kneeboard and pulled the kids behind the four wheeler.  Even I got a turn after being forced by Brandon with the promise of I won't go too fast, but he did take off before I was ready and I fell off before even getting started.  It was a lot of fun!

Here's Austin all strapped in and ready to go

And there he goes.

And if you look closely you can see his little self out in the pasture.  He was loving it and kept hollering go faster, go faster.  I guess he's a little speed demon.

Austin, Ayla and Scooter.  This was actually taken before we got started so everyone was still dry.  We all had a lot of fun, but a couple of days of this mess is enough for me.  I don't think I'd make it living where it snows all of the time.

Pudding Anyone?

I honestly think that I live with "King Mess Alot"!  This child can make more messes than anything I've ever seen.  On Friday afternoon he wanted to make chocolate pudding, no problem we can do that.  So I'm getting the milk poured up and he's holding the package of pudding trying to open it.  I tell him not to open it because it would make a mess.  Do you think he even remotely listened to me?  NOT AT ALL.  So below is the resulting mess that I had to clean up.  It was everywhere.

So I did what any good mother would do.  I broke out the vacuum cleaner and began sucking the powdery mess off of him.  You do whatever works sometimes and at that point it seemed liked the easiest thing to do.

You just never know what kind of mess we'll have next!!

Our Week

I have thoroughly enjoyed my week off of work staying at home with Austin.  So here is a little recap in pictures.

We did a little of this...

Santa Superhero

Playing in a blind with the dog

 Another day...another superhero

His Etch a Sketch version of Arkansas

We did a little of that...

Playing cowboy/cowgirl with Anna

Watching a little TV

Took a couple of Elmo blue baths

Had a little tractor time

 a little swingset time

his mustache from one of the junk machines at the grocery store...yeah he thought he was cool

Showing off the ducks that daddy killed

And then of course we did a whole lot of this....

that would be sitting in the recliner and watching TV and boy was it great!  Please excuse the ugly purple fuzzy socks, but it was chilly most of the week.

 

I am thankful to have a job to return to, but I can definately say that I'm not looking forward to going back.  Maybe just another week or two off would be great!  A girl can dream can't she?