More and More Snow!

We started off February with the hopes of no more winter weather.  But it was short lived.  The girls actually went to school for an entire week the first week of February!  Joe and I both got strep that week but after a couple of doses of antibiotics and we were somewhat functional again. I also went to a "Favorite Things" party one evening.  You brought 3 of the same item that was around $10.  At the party you put your name in a hat 3 times and each person got up and explained why what they brought was their favorite thing that they used.  They drew 3 names out of the hat and gave their favorite thing to those 3 people.  It was a lot of fun.  I took the 31 thermal water bottle holder and came home with lotion, starbucks gift card, crazy socks and eye shadow.

Then the 2nd week of February we were hit with another ice/snow storm.  The girls went to school on Monday and then we had the rest of the week off to play in more snow.  This snow was more of an ice mixture so most of our time was spent indoors.  Joe came home Monday night with his flash light in case we lost power:

 

And the girls thought it would be fun to play in their swim suits.  Even though it was snowing outside and only in the 20s:

We ventured out a little to play in the snow before it melted:

 This was our sad attempt at a snowman since most of it was slushy ice by the time we tried to make one:

 Friday was Valentine's Day so the girls made the shape of a heart and asked me to look over the loft to look down on them:

By Friday afternoon the roads were clear enough to drive on so I took the girls to the American Girl store so Emily could spend the rest of her birthday money:

 We also rode the carousel.  This was the first time going that I didn't have a child wanting me to cling on to them for dear life.

 On Saturday we lounged around and the girls enjoyed playing in their forts.

After almost a week of being out of school we were ready to start their winter break!

Snowpocalypse

This has been a CRAZY week!  On Tuesday they predicted some light snow by mid afternoon.  But at 10:30 it started snowing early and I got text messages that the schools were closing early.  I got the girls home and we enjoyed playing in the snow that was continuing to fall:

 

 

 

Little did we know that all of Atlanta was on the way to being in a grid lock on all the interstates and highways.  Lots of people didn't make it home and spent the night on the interstate, kids spent the night at schools because the buses couldn't complete their routes or their parents couldn't get to them.

 

Joe left work at 2:30 to head our way and didn't get home until 11:00 p.m.  He only has to drive 10 miles and doesn't get on the interstate.  There were several hills that cars got completely stuck on so Joe (and lots and lots of others) walked the last 3.5 miles to get home.

The next day there was nothing to do but play in the snow some more.  So thankful our family was all together:

 Abigail asked me to get her beach chair out so she could keep working:

 The girls were out of school the rest of the week. We were able to drive to Joe's car on Thursday morning.  So for January the girls were out of school 5 days due to weather!

Chili and Bingo Night

Last night Emily's school had their Chili and Bingo Night.  I cooked Chili for the event and won 3rd place!  I got a $25 visa gift card:

 

Emily loved playing Bingo:

 And she won at Bingo and got a prize:

Today we spent the morning getting Emily's American Girl Boutique together:

Birthday Party

On Sunday afternoon we had Emily's Birthday Party at Monster Mini Golf.  Julia had her party here earlier and Emily loved it and wanted to go back.  The kids played hot potato game, had cake, opened gifts, and then played putt putt which gave them a 40 count ticket bonus.  After that we handed out quarters for the kids to play arcade games and earn extra tickets.  They could use the tickets to purchase toys which we used at their party favors : )

Tara once again did a wonderful job making a "Frozen" cake for Emily:

 

 

 Rachel brought neon face paint so the kids faces would glow under all the black lighting:

 

Getting ready to play putt putt:

 

 Riley with her purchases from her arcade tickets:

 The group minus Tessa and Abigail.  They were both over putt putt by then:

Emily is 7!

Emily is 7 years old today!!!!!!!!!!!!

She woke up extra early because she was excited about the day.  We had gifts for her from us, PawPaw and Dee Dee, Grandma, and Aunt Chelle:

 

She wanted to spend her American Girl gift card and $ from the grandparents so we got dressed and headed to the store.  She picked out an outfit with shoes and bracelet for her doll and a book on running a cafe:

 The pink dress is the outfit she bought:

She also requested Mac n Cheese pizza for lunch.  Luckily she wanted to go back home so we ordered it to go.  This allowed Joe and I to eat something else other than pizza : )

 We sang Happy Birthday with cupcakes:

Happy Birthday Emily!  We love you so much.  We are very proud of how well you are doing in school and love to see your imagination come to life when you play.