my secret weapon

for doing well while LCing... WATER! its great stuff..
moi.. today.. 

who DRESSES this boy...

oh.. he does it himself... ...
sebastian the other day... wow.. bit of grass under that rain and snow...
its snowing again today... and tomorrow...
buh bye grass...:-( 

not sure if you can see it...

but this is my road... on my walk the other day... in the upper right corner is my property... in the lower left corner is the creek that usually is so low that you dont even SEE it... let alone raging like this... and as you can see the road is being washed away...
fortunately it didnt get too bad, and i got to walk ... 

from the other days walk...

like i said... it was uh... kinda wierd to walk while the CREEK (crick for yall in idaho) was runnin so fast and deep that it spilled over to the road ... and was kinda eating it away... 

its been a while

moi, today... sans the chefs hat..
nevermind.. ya had to be there..*L* 

three luckiest guys in the world...

this lady would have mowed THEM down instead of hitting us if they had been there a couple of seconds sooner..
after the funeral of his mom... poor moon didnt need this lady to hit his moms car.... (here he is trying to tell her he needed her insurance info.,.. she didnt speak english very well.... ) 

utah mountains....

on the utah freeway... with moon trying to macgiver the trailer hitch that fell off going sixty on the freeway... cause the guy didnt make sure the thingy was secure...

very scary to feel a hit from behind...(especially after a lady just hit us in a parking lot a couple days before) and then see all the sparks and flames as the hitch drug on the freeway.....

i'm not so sure having moons moms car is going to be alot of fun...... 

buddies...

what the HECK? yeah.. that IS a stair stepper outside they are looking at...
okay... maybe they are looking at the snow..... ... doesnt matter.. they sure are cute! 

couldnt resist

awwwwwwww he is SO cute...
oh... and thats not a bear... thats petie ... and he isnt THAT big.. odd camera angle i guess.. 

the baby...

climbing on my couch to look out the window....
have i said this before? I LOVE THIS CHILD!! 

not cool...

moon and the cruncher lady...
moms poor car..... crunched..... all for a CARLSJR. LOWCARB burger i had to have...:-( 

lady that hit us...

in the carlsjr. parkinglot.... givin us her insurance info...
hey! nice shot of my finger in the foreground..*L* great camera work kimberly...*L* 

the lady that hit us with her van,,,

only had THIS damage to HER van.... a tiny chunk of plastic out of her taillight,,,, 

not bad for a cell phone pic...

last shot of one of moons moms roses.... i hope whomever moves in and buys her house keeps the rose bush... it would be nice to at least be able to drive by and see it ...beautiful ... 

in tempe arizona

moons moms house... her car (which we now have) ..gonna miss this place... :-( 

the uhaul trailer...

beFORE it came OFF going down the UTAH highway doing SIXTY ....
here... its just parked while we checked out the cool places in northern arizona.. 

these are not little rocks...

that is a HOUSE in the background.... rocks.. and that is a HUGE rock formation that is VERY cool in person...
if you are EVER in northern az... check out the area around LEE'S ferry..
STUNNING scenery,... 

uh oh...

snow in northern arizona... we have no studs.. no chains...and yet we are in snow already.... yikes! 

somewhere in UTAH...

on the way home... kinda cool looking mountain eh? just so bizzare to see a mountain like that in the middle of that flat land... and it looks like a bunch of buildings on top that got covered with the soil making up the mountain... utah is cool looking... 

northern az

on new years day... kinda cool eh? looks like CONDOS that are covered in dirt...
okay... i know... i have an over active imagination...
on our drive home from phoenix 

this is what it looks like

when you drive through southern idaho without studs...okay... fine...it looks like this even WITH studs... but we didnt have em on the trip home from az... 

yesterday...

all my troubles seemed so far away...

oh.. where was i?

sorry.. gotta love that beatles tune eh?

wrinkly crinkly eye shot of the day... yesterday.... 

moi...cheesy shot of the day...

actually... cheesy shot of YESTERDAY...
oddly enough... daughter1 was asked by me to trim one half inch to an inch off the back of my hair today.... she cut TWO OR THREE inches off the back..
its okay.. it still will go in a pony tail... and the ends were basically fried ....
but in the interest of full disclosure... just wanted to know that while from the FRONT it still looks like this.. the BACK is a little shorter... even though ya really cant tell the difference... 

what do you get when you put SNOW and a CHILD together?

yeppers... a SNOW angel... of course!
what else? *L* 

25 miles per hour..

yeah.. like ANYONE does THAT on this road...
okay... maybe when its covered with ICE.. but not normally!
sebastian makes us go to this tree to read the numbers everytime we go for a walk...
today was no exception.. 

the baby..

i think he needs a SCARF!!

will you check out those EYES....
my baby boy... aint he cute... 

i know.. i know..

ive said it before... but GOD i love this child!
givin gram a branch... (no daisies in sight *L*) 

hmmmmmm

the baby seems to think he knows how to run the snowmobile...
i dont THANK so...
anywho... he couldnt see outta that snowcoverediceladen WINDSHIELD even if he DID use it...*L* 

heading out..

sebastian and i were heading out for a climb up the moutntain today... 

poor me...

i have to LIVE here..*L*
our yard today...
stunning isnt it? 

WOW!

yes... unbeLIEVEAbly enough... after the snow storm comes the beautiful IDAHO BLUE (as my mom used to call it) SKY...
today... (dont mind the ugly big white truck down there on the bottom... i have BEGGED moon to get rid of that junker truck and a couple more of them... but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO he woooooooooooooooont...

where was i?
oh.. okay.. our yard today... 

why do i LET this child drag me up this silly mountain?

because it is just utterly GORGEOUS this time of year...
okay.. fine! every time of year... for that matter..

sebastian leading me on a trudge up moms side of the property... 

DONT DO IT!!!

DONT DO IT SEBASTIAN!! dont take off those gloves!!
on moms side of the road... but in the distance.. where it is sunny and bright is OUR side of the property where my house is.. (okay.. FINE! technically it is ALL my property... but i cant get used to not calling this side that mom and dad lived on THIER side..
sue me.. 

too through

sebastian took his gloves off.. and now is finally feeling the effects of the bitter cold..
across the STREET however.. it is a different story...
THERE is the reason moon decided we needed our home on that SUNNY side of the road.. (i wanted it where dad was going to build his house and never did...on THIS dark and dreary side that sebastian is on...
also across the street you can see on the left our CLOVER CLUB potato chip truck... another business we had that sucked *L*
chips were good tho..*L* 

running home!

good GOD its cold out here today... the blue skies belie the fact that it is FREEZING.. sebastian had had enough and his hands got cold... so here he is runnin his little butt home to warm up...
this is the road i usually walk on...
not today! gazelle it is! 

*whew!*

thank GOD... shes HOME...
daughter1 was supposed to come to our house this morning to A) drop off the kiddos for me to watch... and B) to take daughter2 home and then to work as she spent the nite at OUR house which is out of town ONE direction ... to daughter2s which is out of town ANOTHER direction... FROM her house which is out of town yet ANOTHER direction.,..
unfortunately for ME.. she DIDNT show up... at 8 ... when she was supposed to..or 8:30 ..or yes.. even at 8:40..

WHICH is by the way the time I HAD to go take daughter home.. then to work... THEN out of town to daughter1's in search of whether she was stuck in a ditch with the babies..or just couldnt get out of her driveway..

hmmmmm
here is her new car (used..just new to her) ... and yet i am STILL going after her,,,grrrrrrrrrrr
soooooooooooooooo glad she isnt stuck ..or in a ditch...
but here i am ... sittin outside her house... waiting for her to get ready... she overslept....:-(

once a mother... always a mother... 

waiting still

hmmmm how odd.. like mother like daughter i guess.. HER house has a tree growing out of it TOO i guess... never really noticed it ... but here i am WAITING for her to come out... so i noticed how pretty it looks .. 

still waiting....

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... okay.. i admit it..
i am a bit pissy right now... not ONLY did i have to drive over to daughter1's house (she has no phone... i know.. i know... dont even get me STARTED on THAT right now) and NOW i am waiting OUTSIDE while she gets ready... at this point i didnt realize the kiddos had spent the night at her friends house... so i was waiting THINKING i was waiting for THEM.. not for HER to get her butt up and out the door for work..:-(

oh well.. i would have waited ANYWAY ... so that i KNEW for sure she got out of her driveway and to town okay... 

hmmmm

 

heading off to get the kiddos...

daughter1 is going too fast here i think ,,grrrrrrrr
cant even see her.. and I am the one with STUDS and she is the one with just all weather tires..:-(
anywho... got her up and this is her driveway heading to town... 

creepy square clouds....

heh heh... okay its the window glare and the reflection of the lights in the hospitol...
outside the spokane hospitol moon got his cath done yesterday.. 

spokane washington

this was yesterday at the heart institute..
picture is out the window.. so some glare... but you get the drift...it was a NASTY drive from here to there...:-( 

someones not happy...

waited from 7a.m till 9:30 to get this show on the road...
for someone who cant sit still for five minutes... this isnt fun... and the expression says it all 

after the cath...

oh man... its so hard to see moon look so out of it... but he is okay... so thats the MAIN thing! 

do NOT attempt this at home..

buried bike... not easy to ride... 

downtown

mainstreet... my town...
yeppers.. that WOULD be snow piled up in the MIDDLE of the road ... nearly six feet high...
roads dont look all that great either... do they.,..? 

my room

yes... i DO sleep under the blue skies and clouds and surrounded by palm trees and leaves....
doesnt EVERYbody? 

hmmmm

wellllll... this is where the PARK is ... ya know... the nice little park i take the baby to... the one that was all sunny and fun looking just a few weeks ago.... rode his bike.. played on the merry-go-round... swang on the swings (is swang a word? looks weird in print...)

where was i?
anywho... where that BIG tree is .. is the park...

there will be no swinging today! 

if you look close at the house..

you can see the BIG FLAKES coming down as we speak...
how did i know that? .. because i just checked out the door so i could whine to rhonda how i have to drive tonite in this..*L* THANKS RHONDA!!! 

oh NOOOOOOOOOOO

its snowing aGAIN!!
ack.... and we have to drive to town in this ... :-( 

moi

today..
ick... yucky straight hair... (i curled it some later... ) 

CHOCOLATE MILK????

oh man... why did i let his mom pick his drink?
alllllll sugared up.... :-(

love this yamaha hat 'bastian has on...

at our little hometown cafe.... having breakfast today 

SOMEBODY is tired...

and has a cold...
here is sebastian at the resturaunt attached to where his mom works (its a bar resturaunt)
we went there for breakfast today... 

another thing i love...

THIS GAME!! oh .. yeah... and the PROJECTOR tv that allows me to watch basketball the size of my ENTIRE big ole huge empty white wall ... as you can see here.. that is the kitchen in the background .. the screen covers an enormous wall... and what really could be better actually... then watching CHRIS WEBBER that size *grin*... 

built in snowmobiling trail,,,,

our driveway...
moon and dider 

must be nice!

nothing like coming home from school and having your papa (grandfather) take ya snowmobiling!
moon and dider today,,,headin out 

not exactly the EASIEST place to walk

but.. i managed to do it anyway... i REAAAAAAAAAALLY need to get some of those thingamajigs that have spikey dealybobbers on them so that i dont slip and fall and ruin my knee again,,,, 

awwwwwwwwwwww

SOMEbody wants to go outside and play in the snow... 

moon and sebastian ...

plowing our driveway....
better him than me! 

how odd...

looks like my house is crooked.. or falling over.. or SOMETHING... but .. nevertheless.. what i wanted to show was.. LOOK at the SIZE of those FLAKES will ya! 

i thought we got six inches...

but when it was all said and done... more like TEN or ELEVEN inches of the white stuff... 

surrounded by trees and snow...

shot of my yard today... 

optical illusion?

kinda looks like the blippin trees are on top of our house ...doesnt it? ... well...they ALMOST are... we have a couple feet between my house and the MOUNTAIN with the BOULDERS and the TREES....

am i the only person that seems troubled by this? 

one of the LESS fun things about snow...

papa and baby doing the plowing of the driveway.... although the baby looks pretty chipper about the whole thing... 

snow!

petie up to his ...um... his.... ah... *ahem*.. his TUSH in the white stuff...
while diders bike has a ten inch layer of snow cushioning the seat for him.... 

ABOMINAL SNOWMAN?

nope... just petie finding out today that when a dog is as small as he is....it doesnt pay to go out in 10 inches of snow!