Project 365 - Day 7 - Snow Day!!

It snowed today!! We were predicted 1-2 inches, and we ended up with maybe half an inch. Schools were cancelled last night at around 7:00 pm and it didn't even start snowing until 11:30 am! My kids were just as excited with our half an inch as they would have been if we had two inches!! We rarely see snow here, so they take what they can get. It was SO cold that they couldn't stay out too long, but they sure enjoyed the time they did spend in the snow. Most of their snow time consisted of throwing snowballs at each other. Unfortunately this is the best picture I was able to get. I must have been so cold I was shaking because all the other pictures were blurry! Abigail is about to nail Kyle with her snowball!! School has already been cancelled for tomorrow - due to the snow freezing into ice on the side streets. Yes, I live in the south and we just can't handle the snow/ice!!

Project 365 - Day 6

It's Girl Scout cookie time!! This is Abigail's first year as a Girl Scout. She is SO excited. Cookie sales started on Christmas Eve and we had our first meeting since sales started today. I came up with this goal chart so the girls could track their sales. She is a Daisy, so using the Daisy flower was perfect! I had set their goal at 50 boxes each, so the stem of the Daisy has 50 boxes on it. The inside of the Daisy says 'Daisy Values' and each petal represents one of the values. Every time they sell a box, they color in another box on their flower. She is only 3 boxes away from her goal!! Yay!! Don't forget to buy your cookies!!

Project 365 - Day 5

Today was the first day back to school after Christmas/Winter break. We were all way too lazy while the kids were out. We did a lot of - NOTHING!! This includes messing up our sleeping schedules. Needless to say my daughter didn't get much sleep last night, and I didn't either. I help out in the Art class at her school two days a week with the Kindergarten classes and ran into her teacher this morning. I informed her that Abigail would probally be dragging today, and she replied with "oh, she is!". Whoops!! When she got of school we had a snack, gave all the dogs a treat, read a book, and then CRASHED!! Today's picture shows the aftermath of the first day back to school! Here is Abigail with her daddy tapped out in the living room chair. I fell asleep on the couch, and woke up to the two of them snuggled up together.

Project 365 - Day 4

Today is the last day of Christmas/Winter Break. We thought we would end it with a trip to Chuck E. Cheese! The whole family went and we had a great time. We don't always have a great time on family outings - my son is a teenager through and through. I am definitely getting my payback for what I put my mom through! He mostly did his own thing while we were there, but he was happy so we were too! Today's picture is of my daughter Abigail. We were playing the game where you shoot water at a target and the line gets higher and higher. I won the first round and she won the second round. She was concentrating so hard in this pic!!

Project 365 - Day 3

Bath time!! My dog Maggie was WAY over due for a bath! She doesn't really enjoy baths. Actually, I think they scare her. She usually just sits there waiting patiently for it to be over, while having this really pitiful look on her face the whole time. When bath time is over she runs around the house like a mad woman! She may not like baths, but she does like to be clean!!

Project 365 - Day 2

Brrr, it's cold outside! It is currently 19 degrees here. I'm sure that is nothing to some people, but pretty cold for here in the south! My dad has made all my dogs majorly nice dog houses, all equipped with heaters. He brought the last one over tonight for the foster puppies. While my dad and my husband were setting it up, I grabbed my camera in hopes of finding the perfect picture for the day. I walked out onto my deck and saw exactly what I wanted to capture. This picture is a close-up of my swimming pool. It is FROZEN!! The black background is the cover over the pool and if you look close enough you can see leaves. I think this picture does a pretty good job of showing how cold it is here!!

Project 365 - Day 1

Today is the start of my Project 365. I will be taking and posting a new picture every day for 365 days! This project sounds really awesome, so I am hoping to be able to keep up! I am definitely not the photographer that the other girls doing this project are so I apologize for that in advance! Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Since the new year is here, it is time to take down the Christmas decorations. So, I thought I would take this picture of an ornament on my tree. My daughter, Abigail, started Kindergarten this year. She made this ornament at school and it has her thumbprint as the reindeer. She was so PROUD of it and of course I LOVED it! Tomorrow it will be packed away for another year, but now I can look at it all year long!