Snow, Snow and more Snow!!

I felt like I was in the North Pole last week, it was crazy! I cannot believe that it snowed again, it was great! The bad part is, I was all the way in Hurst when it started to sleet and snow. I had to drive all the way home to McKinney in a snow storm in a rental. Gee Whiz! I finally got home and tried to get Isabelle to play in the snow but she thinks it's yucky, and chose not to even come outside. She just stood at the window and watched as I took pictures.... what a girly girl, I love it!!

"EWW, Nasty" She says




The Front of our house- My poor tree was just starting to bloom before all the snow came and scared the blooms away.

Bad Dog year for the Wink =(

As some of you may already know we had to get rid of one of our dogs at the beginning of the year because she was starting to get very aggressive toward Isabelle. We hated to get rid of her and it was really hard, but Isabelle means more to us then our dog. As awful as that may sound.

On Friday Tootsie, our other dog, started limping and laying around a lot. We thought maybe she had just hurt her foot so thought that we would give her the weekend to get over it. Monday we took her to the vet and they think she may have torn her ACL in her knee. They wanted $450 to do X-Rays and sedate her to insure that it is in fact her ACL. Ugghh! It seems like everyone and their mamma wants money, and HELLO I QUIT MY JOB.. I HAVE NO $$$ So we opted to give her some pain medicine/anti inflammatory medicine and see if it gets better. (Which still cost us $215) Can you believe that this dog that shed's all over my house, scratches my front door, digs up my back yard, and sneaks things outside is now costing me more $$. The bad part is that I actually feel bad for her, what is wrong with me. I guess I just cannot bear to see that poor mutt limping around in pain, it is just so sad.

So we should know in a week if the pain medicine worked or if it is the ACL. If it is the ACL then that means surgery, a $2000-$3000 surgery!! Oh man, oh man!

Our Visitors

On Thursday my Mom (Grandma) came over with Conner and Collin, and stayed until Saturday morning. Isabelle had such a great time seeing Grandma and her cousins. Thursday night we all stayed in because the weather was horrible, I cannot believe all of the snow that we got!! On Friday Grandma watched the kids while I worked, and then we later took them to go get their pictures taken at the Picture People. For anyone who has ever tried to get 3 kids under the age of 5 to take a good picture you can already image how well that went over. It is just not physically possible to get all of them to smile at the same time, much less get them to sit still for the 10 seconds that it takes to snap the picture.

From the Picture People we decided to take all of the kids to Peter Piper Pizza (it is like Chucky Cheese, but a little less ghetto). The kids all had so much fun! Conner thought he was so big putting his own coins into the machines. Collin was of course the last one to finish his food because I am convinced that as long as their is food in front of him he will eat it, he needs to teach Isabelle that trick. When he was finally done him, Isabelle and Conner all round of the merry go round and loved it. It was probably a little boring for Conner but Isabelle and Collin loved it. The second best ride of the day was the ice cream truck, Collin and Isabelle rode that a million times. Check out the pictures below I was beginning to think that Collin and Isabelle were going to fall asleep on one of the two rides.

All of the kids had a great time!



She can barely stay awake

Let there Be Light!

This maybe embarrassing but I am going to tell you all about the highlight of my weekend... Dave FINALLY replaced the light bulb in the bathroom, YEAH! I can not tell you how excited I was when Dave came to me today and said, "babe, you can finally can poo in the light". It was the most romantic thing that he has said to me in two weeks. Roughly two weeks ago the bathroom light went out so I either have to pee in the dark, go in another bathroom, or go with the door wide open. Dave's solution to my problem was to take a candle with me, what a handy man.

Word to the wise, when looking to buy a new house the high ceilings sure look nice but just think about how long it will take you to get a bulb replaced. You to could be peeing in the dark, and trust me it is a lot worse than it sounds.

The "Princess" is 2!!

It was unavoidable the "princess" has turned two and she is starting to act like it. We have had many temper tantrums lately and so yesterday I decided to capture one on camera. Normally she is the first one to say "cheese" but not this time she was so mad at me. Why you ask? Because I wouldn't let her crawl out the dog door, I know I am a horrible mother!!

I cannot wait to show these pictures to her boyfriend (when she is 35 years old that is), she is going to be so embarrassed.


P.S. Please do not look at my baseboards, I cannot believe that they are that messy! I have some serious work to do, now I am embarrassed.

We Definitely Live in Texas!!

There is no doubt that we are living in Texas!! How can we go from 70 degrees over the weekend to snowing 3-4 inches on Monday night? Dave yell's at me to come look out the window on Monday night, to my shock and surprise the snow is POURING down. The weather man predicted this but I thought for sure that he was smoking crack, I mean he would have to be right it was 70 degrees YESTERDAY! So now the snow is melted (it's Wednesday) and we are expected to have a high of 68 today, but guess what it is going to snow again tomorrow??? I give up! So get your short out from under the storage under the bed, but don't pack your coat's away because you never know what is going to happen in McKinney!




I tried taking Isabelle out in the snow later on in the day but she thought it was"yucky"! She is not reallyl into getting wet or dirty, my little princess =)

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World!!

Alright people, I am not going to sugar coat this for you. I know that some of your are going to be jealous, because a lot of you probably believe that your little one is the cutest. I have news for you, although your kid is cute Isabelle has to be the cutest thing you have ever seen, right??

This has to be one of the best pictures that I have ever seen of her (courtesy of Mamaw and Papaw). She is just so CUTE, I wanna squeeze her.