My weekend

This weekend really was a big blur.....

Friday Night:  We drove south to stay at my mom's for the night, arrived just before 7 and sat down for dinner.  After that, It was time to put the Coop man down to sleep for the night.  The adults decided to settle down with some reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond, then off to bed for us!

Saturday:  My mom stayed up with Cooper when he woke up at 7am, (THANKS MAMA!) and she let me sleep!  UNTIL 9AM, I haven't done that in a long time.  I got showered, then Tim did, and we played with the little one for awhile.  Around 10:30, we ordered pizzas for the party that was about to start at noon.  My Aunt Sheila's birthday!  YAY!  There were about 20 adults, 8 children and we all had a great time!  I haven't had time to look at the pictures yet, but I'll post a few in my project 365 page in the next day or two.  After the party we packed up and headed back to Indianapolis.  Where we came back to 5+ INCHES OF SNOW!  That was on top of the 2-3 inches of ice remaining everywhere.  We barely made it up our driveway, and I had to snowblow in order for the van to make it into the driveway.  While I was at it, I snow blowed two of the neighbor's driveways and then unloaded the van while Tim watched the kiddo.  Other than my 4-5 falls on my face on the ice, it was a great release of pressure.  I knew you were wondering why I the lady of the house was doing all of this snow digging while my husband was in watching the baby.  BECAUSE I SO SO SO ENJOY IT!!!  After that we all played together until time for Cooper to go to sleep.

Sunday:  My dad and his ladyfriend Gwen made a trip up to visit.  We went to lunch and had a couple of stops on the way home.  Then home to enjoy some of the delicious chocolate chip cookies that I made this morning!  Cooper took a short nap and then dad and Gwen had to head home because it was already 5:30 and they had a 2+ hour drive!  We played with Cooper and then he had some dinner and hit the sack.  I walked on the treadmill, Tim and I are watching the Superbowl, (me only halfway), and then Tim went to try to break through some of the ice..... It's been a nightmare.  I'm hoping to hit the sack by 10:30, I'm EXHAUSTED.  It's been a LOOOOONG short weekend.  Anyone ever feel like that???  I need a day off from my days off!

Happy Superbowl Sunday, enjoy the rest of the game! 

My Crazy Fun Little Man

Having a 16 month old son is such a joy!  I hope I can still say that when he is 16 years old!!! =)

Last night, he and I got home after work, and the little man was so cute, he just couldn't wait to do his daily chore.  I know what you're thinking, You gave a 16 month old chores???  Well, yes, and no.  He chooses this chore, because he loves doing it so much!

Cooper feeds our dog every night.  He goes to our laundry room door and pounds on it until we get him the dog food container.  He then pushes it into the kitchen where we feed Madison, and gets so anxious to feed her.  Tim or I fills up the cup halfway and he dumps the food into her bowl.  We do this about 3 or 4 times depending on how much food we put in the cup.  He laughs and giggles the entire time. 

I have been meaning to take pictures of this nightly event, and I finally did last night.  I made a collage of it so here you are for your viewing pleasure!

Tonight the family is heading south to visit with my mom and her side of the family some tomorrow, then home tomorrow evening for my dad to visit on Sunday.  It should be a great weekend!!  Hope you all have a wonderful Super Bowl weekend! 

Ice/Snow Storm

We've been stuck at home since Monday night.  I'm not complaining, I have actually really enjoyed my time at home with my boys, however, I am not looking foward to driving in the inches of ice in my neighborhood.

Here are some pictures just outside my house.

See all of that white, it's ice, not snow, we didn't even have snow at this point!!

 That's my van, completely covered in ice, took us over 30 minutes to melt the ice off of the windows, then more time to get it out of the inches of ice that were surrounding the tires.

The tree looks beautiful, and it's completely covered in ice.  We were all worried about so much ice that the power lines would go down.  Some people lost power, but thankfully it hasn't been for very long periods of time, the average customer was out of power for 35 minutes.

Here is what were were supposed to see by this morning.  After all that came, we got an inch or two of snow to be extra fluffy on top of all of that beautiful crazy ice.

Tomorrow I am going back into the office.  I will warm up my van in the 7 degree temperatures in the morning, I will pack my stuff, my son and battle the ice.  It will be EMILY v. the ICE.  I will beat it.  I am determined to get back to work.

Wish me luck!  If anyone else in the midwest is going to battle the ice tomorrow, Good Luck to YOU too!!!

WILW

It's Wednesday already!  We've definitely had some icy/snowy weather here in Indianapolis so far this week, so the family has been at home the last day and a half just enjoying our time, hoping the power doesn't go out.

I'm loving that I have a family filled weekend ahead!  Friday night Cooper and I and maybe Tim will be heading down south to visit with my Mom, Shawn, and having a birthday party for my aunt Sheila.  I am excited for this because at least 3 of the 5 2009 babies will be together.   Saturday afternoon, we'll head back to Indianapolis and Sunday, my dad and Gwen are heading up to visit.  Should be a great weekend!!

I'm LOVING these wonderful popcorn "Chipins" from Popcorn, Indiana.  These things are awesome!  I'm addicted!  I bought some in hot buffalo for my hubby, and white cheddar and sea salt for all of us.  The nutrition information for these popcorn chips can be found here.  If you have the chance, pick up a bag, they were only $2.87 per bag at my local Wal-Mart.  Plus the newspaper this past Sunday had a $1.50/off one bag!  Yippie!

I'm loving that my hubby, son, mom and her husband visited the Indianapolis Home Show this past weekend.  Tim and I got lots of new ideas for updates to our house.  Some we won't do on our current house, but we'll use for a future house.  Some, I think we'd have to be millionaires to implement, but would be so super nice.  One idea we loved was a whole house audio visual system.  You can install iPads into the walls of your house to control your entire houses audio and visual needs.  It is simply an App.  The system is amazing.  I'd love to have it, control which dvds my kids are watching in the play room, control what my husband is watching and listening to in the garage.  I can only imagine playing some tricks on him. =] 

I'm also loving our new steam mop, it's the Smart Living Steam Mop. We got this bad boy this weekend at the home show.  We've been looking at steam mops for awhile now, we need entire house solutions for our floors.  When we saw this one being demonstrated at the home show we just couldn't resist.  We did our entire downstairs yesterday and I am totally impressed!  We have 30 days to decide, but for now, this item is here to stay.  If you are interested, check it out here! 



I'm loving The Social Network.  A couple of girlfriends and I watched it last Friday night and I wasn't expecting much.  It turned out to be a pretty good movie.  I am now fascinated with what really happened if this story was stretched and falsified for movie purposes.  I've been googling and doing whatever article research that I can.  A bit obsessed is what I'd call it. Ha!

Last but not least, I'm loving these two wonderful guys!  They are my life and so super special to me!!

Hope you all have a Wonderful Wednesday, I cannot wait to read some of your loves for the day!