Steelers Fan

I took these pictures of Makenna the other day and even though the Steelers lost, I just thought they were the cutest pictures ever. When the light hits Makenna's eyes just right, her eyes are so blue that she is just so beautiful. I made the mistake of telling her how beautiful she was when I was taking the pictures and she started posing for more pictures. She is such a Ham. She just eats that stuff up. I also told her I wanted to take her picture and she said, "Okay, let's go downstairs in front of the fireplace." I said, no, it's okay, just stand right here in your room, and she said, no mom, we take pictures downstairs in front of the fireplace. I think I have officially scarred my children! But they are some pretty good pictures!

Pajama Day

Makenna had Pajama Day/ Pizza Day yesterday at school and boy was she excited. She couldn't wait to wear her PJ's to school and eat her favorite food, pizza. Here are some pictures of her before school.

Go Steelers!

I managed to get some pictures of Mark and Makenna the other day when they were in their Steelers shirts. I knew Mark would want to wear his Packers shirt on SuperBowl Sunday, so I managed to get pics early. Here are the Cutest Steelers Fans Ever!

Angry Packers Fan

I think the title should be,

"My mom may be a Steelers Fan,

But at least she can spell "wear."

:)

And even though I am a Steelers Fan, I laughed My Butt off when I saw Matt did this!

Also, Mark asked me when I put the shirt on him,

"Mom, why do I have to wear this...I'm a Packers Fan." I responded with the thing I never thought I would say, "Because I Said So."

Blizzard 2011

Our house
Our neighbor had to borrow our snow plow...see how deep...

The snow behind our house

View from the backyard

Here are some pictures of our house and the surrounding area so you can see just how much snow we have here...

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE RYAN AND AUNT MARCI!!!

Snow Day

Well, as I'm sure everyone has heard or been a part of, we have had a Huge Blizzard blow across this part of the country. They let out school early yesterday and closed schools for today and tomorrow already. Luckily my work closed today too, but we are open for tomorrow so it looks like I will be heading into the snow tomorrow. Matt and I shoveled multiple times today and it seemed every time he would finish snow blowing the driveway there would already be at least 2 more inches on the ground. It was insane. At some parts you couldn't even tell I shoveled. When it started to die down a little we decided to take the kids outside to play. They were having a great time throwing snow and jumping into the big snow piles. They even played on the swingset and loved going down the slide. It was up to my knees in the backyard, but luckily the kids were too lightweight to reach the ground or else it would have been up to their waist probably! Our neighbor across the street Emily came out to play with them. Matt for some reason thought it would be a good idea to jump off of the mailbox into the big snow piles. I think he thought they would sink in but again they were too light. But they had a great time!

Black and Blue

We had kids over a couple weeks ago for all of the playoff games. It gets a little rowdy with 8-9 kids running around and it eventually became boys vs. girls. So when the boys were chasing the girls and they ran into a room, they slammed the door behind them, and it just so happened to slam on Mark's head. We heard the crying and knew it wasn't a whiny cry that it was indeed a hurt cry, but when Matt brought him down and I saw the golf ball size bump on Mark's head, I couldn't help but gasp, which of course made matters worse. It's started to heal which means it has turned every color under the sun and Mark really likes seeing how it changes. Boys will be Boys!