SNOW

It snowed! Wahoo.........my unfinished yard has finally been blanketed with a layer of powdered sugar. I love that no one driving by will know, until springtime, that the yard is only half finished in grass or that the weeding never got totally completed. Snow is a very forgiving agent. The corralling of mittens, boots, hats and snow pants were the noises that woke me from a splendid slumber. I gazed out the back window, took in the postcard view and found joy in the wintery scene. Out our back door you can hear chirping birds all clamoring to claim the newly spread bird seed. But, the scene out the front door is the most wonderful of all. The only thing more beautiful than a yard of freshly fallen snow..........is yard of freshly fallen snow covered with the footprints of children. I have a feeling a snowman is on his way.

California Gurls

(Read this post with the tune of California Girls in your head)

On our way to church this morning Tanner was singing....."dukes.......with zuchinis on top...............dukes with zuchinis on top...................dukes with zuchinis on top." I will never be able to hear that song in the same way again. I am glad to have finally found a good use for Zuchinis!

****For those of you who live on an island........w/ out radio or pop culture (MOM)......the real lyrics say......."daisy dukes with bikini's on top"

Driver's ED 101

An hour or so ago I was sitting in my bed ready to call it a day, when Tanner comes into my room wondering how to turn the "music" off in my car. "What?" I said bewildered. "my music?" His response, "Yeah, how do you turn your music off in your car?" A few disturbing things flashed through my mind at this point: 1. My car is parked in the garage and the radio is on 2. In order for my radio to be turned on, car has to be on, and my car keys have to be inserted into the ignition and physically turned by an individual 3. Chad, Carver, Taylor and Zach did not turn on my car because I just saw them watching the Jazz game.4. My car has just been turned on by Tanner. ...........AND..........(The most disturbing of all)........ #5 . Tanner's only concern after starting the car; how to adjust volume (on the radio).
Heaven Help.

WAVES

Dearest Blog,

Oh how i love you, let me count the ways.............or should I say waves? You see blog,
Life moves in waves. The momentum of a wave gradually builds, and builds, and builds. And when it has taken on too much water, the wave crashes................and is no longer. Thus is the case of my dear laptop..............she took on too much and like the waves of the ocean she crashed. Never to be used again. I am sad. She became like a sister to me (sorry Jamie to compare you to a computer). At night before we went to bed we would swap stories about our days. She would tell her stories and I would tell mine. She kept all my secrets (All those blog post that I saved only as drafts), she never divulged them. Like a dear sister she stuck by me, wispering words of encouragements, when I needed it most (a.k.a when the laundry pile was touching the ceiling, or when Tanner stuck a sea shell in his ear, or when the bros were plotting mutiny). She has been having some issues, difficulty responding, and then she crashed. I held out a vigil for her for weeks, hoping that she would pull through, but such is not the case. At three thirty today when I got the message that she was a gonner I held a moment of silence for her (and all my lost programs, music and pictures) and decided that life comes in waves. Waves have always been and will always be Therefore, I have decided to carry on, without my laptop, because that is what she would want me to do.


Since I currently have no way of getting pictures off my camera, I will leave you with the most amazing photography of Clark Little. I have to say I am obsessed with it. I mean litterally obsessed. His website is clarklittlephotography.com Take a look.