Soggy Saturday

     On top of our snow and ice storm we now have rain - both freezing and regular! It has packed the rest of the snow and ice into a thick slab of wet ice. It built up in our gutters and now we have a leak in the kitchen! We were up at 4:30 am cleaning it up and Brian went outside in the freezing rain to try to get the ice away from the gutters. Not my idea of a good time! I called the insurance company but haven't heard anything yet.
     I spent most of the day in the craft room! I have been practicing with my sister's Explore while I wait for mine to come. I made a couple of cards in a very short time. I'm liking it!

Too Much Time On My Hands!

    So today is my mother's birthday! Happy Birthday, Mom! She called me early this morning, which is unusual because we are all under strict orders to not call her before the crack of 10am!! She wanted to share the info that HSN has the Cricut Explore Air on special launch and she would be happy to help me buy it! I got out of bed - on a Snow Day, mind you, and booted up the computer. Sure enough, there it was! I did some research to make sure I could use my many cartridges and chose the flexpay option! It will be here in ten days!! I am so excited! Thanks Mom!! Oh, Brian says thanks, too!!

February Ice Storm!

    Crazy weather here in Middle TN! We have had cold weather but no snow all winter. As a teacher I have been very disappointed! No Snow Days! That all changed on Sunday night with at least an inch of freezing rain/sleet with over an inch of snow on top of that! School was out Monday for President's Day so, again, no snow day. BUT...the whole area has been declared a state of emergency and more snow is expected tonight along with record low temperatures! School has been cancelled for the rest of the week!!!! SWEET!!

icicles on the garage

ice on our Japanese maple out front 



See how thick the ice is!?

Mom's Pics

Ice Storm in Tennessee! Here are some pictures my mom took of both the ice and some birds at her kitchen window. Pretty awesome if you ask me!

ice is HEAVY

Lunchtime!

Waiting....

Favorite Picture!

   Brian is a musician, in addition to the many other hats he wears. This is one of my favorite pictures of him. We are in our upstate NY villa apartment and he is singing and playing love songs to me in bed. Sigh...it was our last day together before I had to come back to TN after reuniting again. We already knew we would spend the rest of our lives together. We just had to figure out the details.

Scrapping Again!

    Sooooo...I have been absent from my ScrapRoom for some time except for brief spurts of activity. Lately, I have been really working and spending time in there! I am finally getting some pages done and the muse is working on me! These are pictures I took with my phone so they are not very good! You'll get the idea, though.

One of our first hikes!
 

Part of our NYC trip!



Apple orchard hike!

Happy New Year!!

     It has been a very good start to the new year! We traveled to NY to see family on Christmas Day - after hosting Christmas Eve festivities AND Christmas morning festivities for TN family. We spent 5 busy days visiting family and friends there. We ate "real" pizza, Charlie's Hot Dogs, Ted's Fish Fry, and stopped at Uncle Sam's candy store in Schenectady! We arrived back in TN just in time to repack and head to Nashville for New Year's Eve! We joined 130,000 of our closest friends to watch the music note drop and see a great outdoor concert headlining Lady Antebellum and Gavin DeGraw. They even had fireworks and confetti canons! It was a great time and we will do it again!