More snow pics

We went over my mom and dad's house for lunch - mom was making some good soup! My sister and her kids came over and so did a good friend and her 3 girls. They decided to have a snowball fight in the front yard - 6 kids against my dad! Max finished off the afternoon with THREE cups of hot chocolate - too cute!

SNOW

It snowed last night! This is a rare occurrence in SC so the world pretty much stops when we get the white stuff. Max's first words this morning when he saw the snow were "Wow - this is cool!" Too funny. My sister and a neighbor just came and got Max and were going to pull him on the sled back to my sister's house (she lives just two streets over). We live on a golf course and there's a hill right behind our house - perfect place for sledding and he had a BALL!

I can't help but think of Tyler today. He would have loved being in the snow. It just doesn't seem fair.

Please say a prayer for a girl in my Bible study. She got called out of Bible study yesterday and was told that her 4 month old son had died. It was SIDS. They are completely devastated. He was just dedicated in church several weeks ago and to think they will have his funeral in the same place.

It's hard to think about going to two children's funerals over the next two days. Life is short and we don't know how long we have on this earth - all the more reason to hug our children a little tighter today.

Hand, Foot, Mouth

Yep, Max has the dreaded hand, foot, mouth disease (isn't that a lovely name). He has sores around his mouth, on the back of his throat and on his nose. Now, do you think my child has complained? NO!! The doctor could not believe that he wasn't complaining about his throat being sore. He drank his orange juice this morning and never said a word about it burning. That's my boy...the STUD!!!

My Cowboys lost. Does anyone else think that Tony Romo needs to stay away from Jessica Simpson before a playoff game?

My obsession

I got reprimanded this morning for not posting more often...but I must say that I feel like life around our house has been pretty boring since the holidays. Not too much to report!

I will say that I'm completely obsessed with anything related to the presidential election and my husband is dreading the next 10 months! I told him that this is like football season for him - except my "season" last a lot longer than his. :) I watch all the debates, regularly check the political websites/blogs, watch all the news shows at night and pretty much have FOX News on 24 hours a day - would you consider that obsessed?? This has been going on for a long time too...Max turned 1 on the day of the 2004 election which I thought was awesome. I dressed him up (and took lots of pictures) and toted him to the polls with me at 7:30 am. My parents always taught me the importance of voting so it's something that I will definitely pass on to Max.

Am I a nerd or what?

Christmas Pics

We had a great Christmas! I think age 4 must be when the idea of Christmas really hits a child because Max was totally into it this year!

We went to the Christmas Eve service at our church then my entire family came over to my house for enchiladas and my mom's favorite punch - yum. Don's dad came over bright and early Christmas morning so he could be there when Max woke up. When Max saw what Santa had brought him he got all embarrassed and hid his face in my leg - too funny. We then went over to my Mom's house for more gifts and to eat a scrumptious lunch. Don's dad surprised me and gave me a ring that he had given Fay (my husband's mom who passed away in January) two years ago for her 60th birthday. I can honestly say that I think it was the best Christmas present I have ever received and something I will treasure forever.

We also rode on The Polar Express a few days after Christmas - because of Max's love of trains this was his dream come true.

Here are a few pics from the festivities...

5:15 AM

Max is all about routines and he definitely has a morning routine - he gets out of bed, goes to the bathroom and then goes downstairs to play with his trains. I typically lay in bed for a few minutes and just listen to him play. It gives me time to wake up and get mentally prepared for the day. :) Unfortunately, Max has been getting up pretty early lately - we're talking between 5:00 and 5:30 am. Well, the other morning I hear him get out of bed, go to the bathroom and then go downstairs. After a few minutes I realized that it was very quiet and I hadn't heard him talking for awhile. So, I go downstairs and Max is nowhere to be found. I then walk to the back of the house and the door to our deck is wide open. I go outside and proceed to find Max playing in his sandbox at 5:15 AM in 40 degree weather! I about died! He had put his shoes on and had managed to unlock the doors. Crazy!

Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that I need to get my lazy behind out of bed when my son gets up!

Hollywild

Below are pictures from Hollywild - an animal park outside of Greenville. At Christmas they have a TON of lights and also have a place where you can drive through and feed deer from your car. We took my niece and nephew and had a great time! FYI - just so you don't think we're pulling a "Britney" the picture of Max driving the car was taken in the "deer field" - we were pretty much just sitting still with deer all around us.