I LOVE CHRISTMAS, but NOT this WEATHER!!

Ok so I know I have not been on here in a while and I will not make any excuses, although I know I could come up with about a million. I do finally have something that I feel is worth commenting on and that unfortunately for you is the weather.

Seriously... sometimes I just wanted to look up to the sky and go "ok big guy what's the deal? Who did you turn the weather controls over to and could you please train them better?" Monday this week the high was about 40 degrees. We were walking around in sweaters and coats and all that fun winter garb. Then I wake up on Tuesday, check the weather and prep myself for 70 degree misty nastiness. How is anyone supposed to stay well in this nonsense. I really don't care which way it goes, but just go one way. It's kinda like driving behind kranky whilst he listens to the chipmunks singing christmas don't be late. (You'll have to ask him about that.)

We did get to see snow this year and that was kinda fun. Mattie wasn't quite sure what to do, but she sure did look cute in her coat.

My favorite part of Christmas is the lights and they were pretty fun out in the snow too.

So... it is now officially Christmas Eve and the forecast for today is 72 and sunny. I guess we won't be having a white Christmas this year. What else should we expect in Texas? Who knows, miracles happen...just ask Mary and Joseph.

The Weekendlong Project

So we decided that we had too many left over bricks from when our house was built and we were tired of them hanging out in our garage taking up much needed space. The solution to this problem turned out to be a patio. We just figured we would use the left overs to build an extention to our patio. We got an idea, drew up the plans and found out that we didn't have enough bricks. Solution to this problem came in the form of left over patio bricks at gran's house. It only took 2 trips to get more bricks than what we needed and now the space that we took our bricks out of is filled with the leftovers from gran's house. The best laid plans, right? Well after a full weekend of work with help from Mark, Sarah, Jordan, and a little from Chase, we finally completed our project and now have an extended patio. My favorite part of the whole project was going to the landscape supply place for the sand to put under the stones. It was too much fun sitting in Chase's truck watching a machine dump a truck load of sand into the bed...thanks for that experience Chase. Not only that, but Sean also got his favorite part, the............ .........................................................fire pit. :)

Now we're just waiting on the pool plan to go through. Any volunteers for that project. R-I-I-I-I-G-H-T. We'll keep dreaming.

The patio