Snow recap/Wicked

 For those of you living in Antarctica, we got a taste of the weather last weekend.  We had a few inches of snow. Not the good packing snow, but slushy-icy-hard snow.  We tried to do some laundry basket sledding because we haven't broken down and bought a sled or saucer yet.  A is starting to get into snow, but not so much G.  Friday and Saturday we played in the snow and then Sunday, we braved the streets and went to Wicked!  A and I had a great time.  She now likes to listen to the Wicked soundtrack and protests if I try to skip a song.  G has even started saying he likes the music, but he's normally game for anything A is. 

Other than snow, there hasn't really been any news around here.  We're pretty much back to normal for the schools, just trying to adjust for the days out of school.

The post snow hot chocolate

 

I ride it, schoolbus!

As this was never actually published I can publish it now.  

This is a post about a recent trip G and I took to OK. We left Thursday last week and arrived at the airport with plenty of time. After pulling the bag out of the car, G stated, "I do it" when I went to roll the bag so that we could get on the bus to take us to the airport.  I thought he meant that he would help me, but no he meant that he would get it. Thankfully an extremely nice bus driver saw me struggling with him pulling the bag, so she picked us up not at an actual bus stop. Then during the ride he constantly said, "I ride it. School bus."  Everyone commented on how big of a helper I had. After we checked the "purple one" G had to carry a bag, so he carried the lunch box. He never dropped it or left it somewhere and even through security refused to let me carry the lunch bag. I could carry him after, "up please mommy" directives, but not the lunch box. 

Final edit: I ended up running the Route 66 Half Marathon at a time of 2 hours 15 minutes and 4 seconds.  Considering I planned on 2 hours 15 minutes I'll say I did okay.  It wasn't a PR but it was a good race.  I also got to walk through the finisher chute and looked up when I heard everyone talking about Batman.  (G had found a Batman hat that he insisted on wearing) He crawled over the fence from mom's shoulders to get to me and gave me a huge sweaty (on my part) hug.  

We had this crazy idea to go in US Women's Soccer shirts after they won the World Cup in July.

Batman inspecting the bling.

Batman looking for mommy over the fence

Family dinner for G's Birthday!

Hanging out with Uncle

Trying to figure out what this thing does.

Look! Mommy got a hair cut!

Playing in toys at the mall.

Definitely carry on size.

I do it!

Pushing a grocery cart because of "I DO IT!!" and it not being worth the argument at 9pm.

Ringing in 2016

We rang in the new year while traveling back to NC from Oklahoma.  We had a lot of fun with family and friends all while dodging wonderful weather phenomenon.  The newest phenomenon that we had to deal with was the tornadoes on the way down.  While in Nashville we couldn't see and had our radio hoping for that annoying beep saying there was an alert of some kind.  We couldn't hear each other for all the rain coming down on the car so we found a long overpass to park under for a few minutes to get our bearings.  As we slowed down we realized part of what we were hearing was tornado sirens.  Yes!  Now we get to add driving through tornadoes to our list of Christmas weather adventures we've now had.  The first year Chris and I got married we drove through tornadoes getting home to Arkansas from Oklahoma at Thanksgiving -- but never Christmas before.  That was a scary experience and we didn't have two kids screaming for food in the backseat then.  :)

Anyway we made it safely to all of our destinations even if we didn't stay as long as we might have liked to stay.  We got to see most all of the family and friends we set out to see and now it is good to be home.

Google helped me by putting together a story about the trip.  There aren't many captions but it tells the story quite well and has several pictures that are fun!

Google Story Link