Monday, November 15, 2010

Winter's here!

We got our first big snowfall of the year over the weekend. It started during the night on Friday. The drive home Saturday morning was slow going and there were quite a few car accidents. I decided to stop and fill gas before going hoe since I was at just under half a tank. While I was there I stopped home to see if Mike wanted anything and to let him know where I was. A few minutes later I was about a block and a half from home when I saw a tree branch hit a power line and there was a pow and big flash. That knocked our power out. The snow was so heavy that tree branches were coming down. Before I got home a branch had come down in our neighbors driveway. Our Explorer was sitting under that same tree.


So, I cleaned it of and moved it into the garage. About an hour later we headed out to Luke's floor hockey game. That was short lived. The power was out at the school where it is held. When we got home another branch had fallen. This one fell right where that explorer had been sitting.

One more hour went by and we decided to head to Mike's mom's since it was getting cool in the house. I got in a good nap and the kids got to play with Grandma. A few hours later the house was warm and we were home to kick back and hang as a family.

Sunday we stayed home. It was still snowing and I just couldn't bring myself to go out in it again. The kids spent most of the day playing in their playroom Mike and I just had a relaxing day.

Today the roads are clear and the snow is settling, but it looks like winter is here to stay.


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Tricks or Treats

Halloween came and went. Halloween fell on Sunday this year. Because of my work schedule we decided to carve pumpkins the Tuesday before. Well, I thought it would be best to store them in the garage. I thought this would be better that storing them in the house or on our deck. WRONG! They rotted in the garage and we weren't able to put them out for Halloween. Oh well. Carving them was fun and we learned a lesson. Next year we wait until Sunday to carve. (Halloween will be on Monday)

Luke and Kenna had a great time at their school party. Luke went as an Astronaut because he had an Iron Man costume and we got a note from the school stating they were not to wear anything depicting violence. We talked about it an decided that even though Iron Man is a good guy, the movie does have violence and it would be better if he had a different costume for school. Turns out that a couple other boys in their class were Iron Man. We stand by our decision and explained to Luke that he got another costume he can play around the house in out of the deal. He was okay with that.

Trick or treating brought home a haul. We hit up the neighbors in our circle. Then we stopped by the home of some friends and the home of our babysitter and Mike's childhood daycare lady. Our babysitter is the Granddaughter of Mike's childhood day care lady. Then we made our way to Mike's Mom's house. Mike hung out there while the kids and I made our way up and down her street. By 8:00 we had accomplished our goal of getting a "hundred-thousand-billion" pieces of candy and headed home to grab something to eat and get the kids to bed.

Monday was a rough day. The kids had had too much sugar and not enough sleep. We were able to end the day on good terms and I think we all got decent sleep. Now we're off to school, voting and some errands. Very short week for the kids this week due to parent teacher conferences. Then we get to start thinking towards my favorite holidays - Thanksgiving and Christmas.