February 12

We babysat so our friends could go out for dinner. Here's Jesse feeding their newest addition, Kaylee.

February 11

Took the kids out for an eary Valentine's dinner. Grand China Buffet, one of our faves:) Of course I had crab legs, which meant the boys just had to have some claws to play with.

February 10

Matthew at Makayla's (Heidi's little one) 1st birthday party:)

February 9

Sorry I got a bit behind. Going to work on catching up:)

A gift from my/our friend Brit. Pink valve stem covers:)

February 8

As you know, or may have heard, we have had some quite odd weather & experiences here in El Paso recently. While our family was extremely fortunate, no loss of water, heat or electricity, today was our first day of experiencing an 'odd' reaction to things. This is the pot of water I gathered this morning to make myself an egg. As the water company gets everything back & running properly, even those of us that had running water the entire time can expect some not quite right conditions. As you see in the photo, the water, really, looked like milk. After sitting for a few moments it cleared & of course we could boil it to be sure. Jesse also ran the water today for 10 straight minutes to help try & clear the pipes.

Hopefully soon everything will be back to normal & everyone will have their water fixed. I believe additional help has been brought in. Not only are there main lines being repaired but individual homes had lines blow as well. This includes both military housing & standard residential.

February 7

Here I am at our SuperBowl party telling everyone which wings were which. Love how I'm not wearing either playing teams colors lol

February 6

All set & ready for the party to begin. Don't you just love how I used the boy's footballs as decorations:)

February 5

Getting things set, table wise, for our SuperBowl party:)

February 4

Sorry a bit behind again. Here is a picture of my little 'love' display in our front room:)

February 3

I took these pictures yesterday but wanted to make sure I shared at least one of each of our 'kids' having fun in the snow. Apparently this is some of the worst weather we have had here in El Paso in something like 30 years. We have been fortunate enough so far to still have electricity, running water & heat. Transformers & water lines have blown throughout El Paso. Other then letting the kids out to play for awhile yesterday, the kids & I have not ventured out & have been content to stay safe & warm in our home.

Sophie had a blast running about in the snow:)

Emma looks oh so cold in this picture. This might have been when she told me her hands were cold & I told her to go in & change her gloves. Gotta love 2 packs for $1:)

Christopher showing off the snowball he made:)

Matthew showing me his snow covered gloves. You would think his hands were freezing, yet this didn't seem to bother him one bit.

February 2

First off, Happy Birthday to my brother David!! Now I know this is a photo a day blog, but I just had to share a few today. We got snow & ice, so rare for us here in this part of Texas. Everything is closed.

Our front yard covered in snow

See the ice under my snow footprint?

Snow covered tree down the street

Ride on toy left out where the snow fell. Gives a better idea of the accumulation we actually received.

February 1

Not so crazy about all this 'white' stuff hitting & sticking down here. I know this is nothing compaired to the North. Then again, it hasn't finished up here yet. Places/areas are shutting down due to ice. Since this is a rare occasion here, we don't have salt trucks or plows to deal with it all.

January 31

This isn't exactly how our emblem looks but I had to convert it over from powerpoint. At least this gives you an idea of how it looks:)

January 30

Sorry I got a little behind. I got busy working on & finishing up our emblem that will be placed on the shuttle carrying our experiment into space. I thought I would start out by showing you where I will be working, aka one of the campuses I attend from time to time.