The Warrens

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day

I have explained this before, but for Valentine's Day, I use this as an opportunity to show my family how much I love them. For some reason, the kids love to have a "fancy" meal, so I break out the fine china and crystal glassware and make a yummy meal. This year, we have been about Italian'd out, so we went with homemade yummy Chinese food. We had chicken stir-fry, fried rice, egg drop soup and I even went to the local Chinese restaurant and picked up some really good egg rolls. After dessert, I usually give them a small gift and a card! So that's our Valentine's Day!

The table all decked out and fancy!

This is the second shot of about 20 tries to get a good picture - if it's good of one, then someone else has their eyes closed. This is okay but I got tired of going through them all to find the best one! :-)

Our Big January Snow

As probably most of my readers (like all 10 of you family members!!), we got a big snow down here in the South in January. It was very exciting and fun and the kids got out of school a good bit because of it. It started snowing on Friday night and we woke up to a little over 4 inches on Saturday morning. Of course I went overboard on pictures so I had to break this blog up into different days, but you should enjoy all the pictures and even a funny story or two!!

Friday night as the snow is falling!

Our back porch

Saturday morning before we played in it

Snow angels!

Rebecca & her tree!

My precious girls

Julianna had a blast on the slide and landing in the snow!

Love this picture - Rebecca has the LONGEST eyelashes and I think Christian threw snow in her face and the snow froze to her eyelashes!! :-)

Still loving the slide

Not real happy here (check the below blog about why) :-)

My 3 kiddos!

Sledding down the road

Love the matching hats!!

Julianna got the free ride up the hill and home!

Matthew & the kids

Katie & the kids

Maggie was NOT happy about the snow as you can imagine - had to be cold on her belly!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Julianna's Snow Adventure

This sequence of pictures is just TOO funny so I had to put them in their own posting. This is day one of the big snow and we were out in the back yard. We have a very slight hill in our back yard so Matthew got out the sled and thought we could try to sled down it. Who wants to go first??? Well, of course Julianna gets that chance. All I want you to do is scroll down these pictures, especially the few in the middle. The more you do it, the more you'll laugh. (At least I do). It's just too funny.

I know, I know....everyone will say "Poor Julianna" but it was and still is the funniest thing. We have no idea why the sled just stopped and she kept going but poor thing, it scared her to death and she was NOT happy. It took her a long time before she was willing to do anything else in the snow. But oh my gosh - it was funny!!!

Snow Day #2

When we woke up on Sunday, there was more snow and the sun was shining. Since we didn't have church, we all bundled up about mid-morning and heading out to play. It actually felt warmer than the day before so we shed a few layers. The snow was also wetter so we were able to have snowball fights and make a snowman. We also headed down the street to the hill and sled some since that road was basically all ice. It proved to be another fun day in the snow in Tennessee!