Makeup Valentine Party

Today Lauren's class had their Valentine Party. School was canceled on Friday when they where going to have their party. The kids were so disappointed that the teachers let them reschedule their party for today.

Look at that cute Valentine box Mom & Lauren made. It had pig-tails on the side :)

At the Lake

So what did JM and the kids do at the lake...

lots of movies...

lots of fishing...

yes, that is my little girl playing with worms. Yuck! The girls love to bait the worms, touch and play with them. Tyler will not touch them. To top it off, Tyler will not touch the fish that they catch either. Not sure if he is a true outdoorsman yet???

It was boys with the fancy fishing gear vs. the girls with the $9 fishing rod and worms. The score was 2-0 with the girls bringing home the victory! Tyler was so happy for the girls ...???

lots of fun...

The girls even planned a show for the boys for the evening!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We celebrated Valentine's Day on Saturday, February 13th! I made a huge chocolate-chip pancake, eggs, sausage and biscuit breakfast. Then the kids opened gifts from us.

Why today? Because JM and the kids are going to the lake this afternoon and the rest of the long weekend and I am staying here. I have big plans to get a LOT done --tax returns and scrapbooking.

Snow in Montgomery????

YES!!! We had a snow day today! We went to bed last night with the prediction that it would snow in the morning. We live in the deep south so school was canceled and city government shut down for the predicted 1-3 inches of snow! We had a chance of a snow day a little over a month ago with NO SNOW, so I was a little pesimistic when I went to bed. I remember waking up at 530am and there was nothing. Then by 630 the snow had begun, but did not start sticking until about 8am. It was a fun day of playing in the snow for the kids. Granted we did not have the mounds of snow that fell in Texas and Maryland, but it was enough for 4 Montgomery kids to have fun!!!.

Taste the snow...

This morning while JM was at work and Tyler was at a friends house, the girls made a very girly snowwoman!

Dad and Tyler were both home by mid-afternoon. JM loved his morning at work. Apparently, most docs canceled their cases, many patients did not show up this morning for their elective cases. JM had told his patients to BE THERE because he was operating. They showed up. The OR (or ORs) were all his. He was fast and efficient. He loves to operate at that pace which does not happen very often. When the boys got home, the snow ball fights began!

Then they built the 2nd snowman with the backyard snow. This is Bubba The Snowman!

What a fun day we had!

On Saturday morning, the girls rushed outside for one last snow adventure. They made snow angels in our neighbors' yard. AL snow angels are a rare beauty. The grass showing through actually makes the angel more distinctive!!! (We must fine the positive to the melting snow!) They were so cute!!

SuperBowl Fun

Each year we have our own family Super Bowl party. It is nothing big. It is just a junk food, football themed family night. In the past, the girls were done with the football by the time they were done eating dinner. This works out good so JM and Tyler get to watch the game in peace while the girls usually go watch a movie somewhere else.

This year Noni stopped by on her way back to her house in Florence. She had been in Montgomery all weekend watching our cousin Jenson dance at a competition. Corynne and Lauren really enjoyed getting to watch Jenson dance on Friday and Saturday. Jenson is a beautiful, talented dancer and she won quite a few awards over the weekend. WOW!!!

We warned Noni that it was a junk food party, but she graciously ate with us anyway. Hope she did not have a tummy ache on the rest of her long drive home! I did, but maybe that is just a pregnancy thing! Anyway, the girls loved having her stop by for the party! Lyndsey has frequently said, "Mommy, remember when Noni came here and we had a football party!"

JM's proudest moment of the evening was when the girls had been sent to their rooms to get ready to go to bed. I came back and told him he needed to go check on Lauren. He discovered that she was tucked in bed watching the SuperBowl. She new the score and which team was winning. A proud Dad moment!!!!

Father/Daughter Dance

JM took the girls to a father/daughter dance back on January 30th. I just have not had time to post pics until now! So here are a few cute ones!

They all had a great time. JM enjoyed letting loose to "Party in the USA"! Memories were made with Daddy tonight!

Just a good story that I wanted to share!

As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

This man is truly a genius!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A...

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)

Remember, there is a test coming up. The mid-term election in 2010!

Life is Tough, It's even Harder if you're Stupid.