Not your typical evening in Memphis

I know all of my Utah folks are so sick of the snow, but we were so excited to get snow. My kids loved it. This was actually Ryleigh's first time seeing snow. It's sounds odd but I think she was actually a little overwhelmed by it. She was touching it like she was a little unsure. After a while though she dove right in just like Cara and Carson.

Carson with his snow girlfriend. This took him and Daddy about an hour to roll. I thought the finished product was pretty darn good.
I love this picture. Cara kept saying her back was freezing. Well yeah...of course it was. Her whole backside was showing.
One thing I learned for sure was that we are so unprepared now for winter weather like this. I was tearing the house apart looking for snow gear. This was the best that I could come up with. My girl's are wearing my scarfs, Wal-Mart gloves, Carson's in Bball pants and Dave and I just made do with what we had. It didn't matter though. We had a great night and were glad to have a little piece of home (UT.) here in Collierville.

Dave's aunt Mickey sent me this email with the title "Check out these pilots". I love this picture because I can just hear the comments coming out of my Dad and Dave's mouths with their opinions on woman pilots. Dave is not sexist but I know he would much rather fly with a male pilot any day. I love this picture though. Whoever said a woman can't do a man's job? I say "You go Girl's"!

Our week so far....in a nutshell!

Last night Ryleigh was so tired and would not go to bed without her apple juice. After giving her 3 cups already I decided if I wanted her teeth to stay in tact then that was going to have to be enough. To make a long story short, she cried for about 30 minutes in front of the refrigerator and this is how the story ended. Little Ryleigh asleep on the kitchen floor.
We had Carson's last basketball game of the season tonight. They lost by 2 points. Carson had a great season. He wasn't on a winning team, but he sure is a big winner in our eyes.
This picture is so funny to me. I walked in the kitchen, secretly spying on Ryleigh and I noticed she had this glass full of odd looking chocolate chunks. Well what it turned out to be was the outside of all of the Oreos she had licked the cream out of. She's definitely my kind of Oreo eater.
I love Gymboree's clothing line and lucky for me so does my Mom and my Mother-in-law. They have great taste. So much so that they both bought my girl's these similar sailor outfits. One in pants and one in capris. Of course it's not Capri time yet so here they are modeling their pants. Works out perfect for me. I love Easter clothing lines because I just love the Nautical look on little girls.
Dave was out of town all last week spending most of his time in Buffalo, New York and Montreal, Canada. As he was doing his walk around he decided to send me an email showing how cold it was. This picture obviously doesn't do it any justice but the temperature in Montreal was -20F. Crazy Cold! Dave's hands were shaking so hard that he could hardly take them out of his pockets long enough to take this picture. Glad I was in Memphis with my 60 degree weather last week.

My Chilihead days...

So I just recently had my friends Jaime and Angie comment on my blog and it brought me back to a really different time in my life filled with some really wonderful memories.

My top ten list of why I stayed on at Chili's for almost 7 years~

10. It was a convenient way of getting my exercise in and making money at the same time.

9. Who could complain about making up to $200 on a Saturday night bar shift?

8. Steve Bell and Steve Law constantly making me laugh so hard. Gosh, I miss those two in a weird sort of way. Where the heck are they?

7. Wedding showers, baby showers, Xmas and Holiday parties, concerts, lunch dates, etc. with some really fun people.

6. Village Inn after a late weekend shift.

5. Standing in the back kitchen watching Elio, Jim, Flo, and other management freak out. I'm just glad it was never towards me. But in some sort of way I loved watching it happen to others.

4. Being in the "weeds". I loved it. I loved every minute of having that constant rush (getting my booty kicked) like I do now when I'm in the middle of a Chilimare now.

3. I truly believe it helped keep me young.

2. The great number of people I met and friends I made along the way.

1. Working with my brother and Sis's was the best part of it. We would have such a great time working together. I think those were some of the best times in my Chili's career.

Book Tag

I was just book tagged by my friend Lacey. This is a fun one.

1. pick up the nearest book (with at least 123 pages)

2. turn to page 123

3. find the 5th sentence

4. post the next 3 sentences

5. tag 5 more people

I am not a reader. I'm too A.D.D. and can't even sit still for more than 2 minutes. I'm doing good just to get my B of M reading in. I love magazines though. So I'm going to cheat a little and turn to page 23 of my People magazine.

It reads: Sarah and George V-day IOU. Despite his hectic schedule, George Clooney always finds time for romance. With the Oscars coming up on Feb. 24, George-whose film Michael Clayton nabbed multiple nominations-has been plenty busy. But that didn't stop him from surprising girlfriend Sarah Larson on Valentine's Day.

WOW, that was some good reading. Gotta love those celeb tell-alls!

I tag~ Heidi S., Lori H., Jaime B., Angie B., and my two sis's. Good luck.

Happy Leap Day/Year

Trying to explain Leap Year to Carson turned out to be totally IMPOSSIBLE......After confusing him royally I decided to let his teacher do the explaining.

To most of us it just means we get one more day of pay in February....right?

What goes around~Comes around!

I had to give this picture a post of it's own. I don't know about you, but I know when I deliver meals into families homes while they are down, they never look like this. My Mom's visiting teachers brought her dinner in on Sunday and it was beautiful. Looks like a Martha Stewart add to me. I guess I need to step it up in the visiting teaching department. Really though, all of her meals were wonderful. It made me realize how strong the Relief Society and Visiting Teaching organizations are in the church. It was amazing to see the love and support that was shown towards my Mom. It goes to show, What goes around~Comes around!