



This is my oldest niece Lacey. (all three of these kids belong to my brother) She is so beautiful! Her and Jacob were always VERY close! They spent quite a bit of time together when we still lived in Kentucky. Spending the night at each other's house and all. Jacob talked to Lacey on the phone the other day and it was so precious! He said "Yeah I miss you too Lacey, I miss you a lot!" and I could tell he meant it!! Lacey used to hang out with Brent and I before we even had Jacob. She was our "Test" kid LOL. We kept her alive while she would spend the night with us, so we decided we could give having our own kids a whirl!
Doesn't she have a beautiful smile. Her and Nathan are the two red heads of the bunch.
Little Miss Lana... oh so precious. Mom says she has an attitude and will set Lacey and Luke straight in a minute!! OH I just wanna hug her. It makes me sick that I'll won't have the time with her like I had with Lacey.
And Luke.... the boy in the bunch. Thank goodness he has boy cousins because he's out numbered on sisters! haha Luke is 6 days older than Nathan. How our family survived me and my Sister in Law being pregnant at the same time I'll never know, but I think we did pretty good. haha Luke is a little ham!! Always saying something totally hilarious. The other night I was talking to him on the phone and he was telling me about how he went to the potty! I was so proud of him! He said "Wora" and I said "Yes Baby."...he paused.."Um I not a baby!" I had to laugh... "Sorry, Yes Luke?" LOL!! Who knows what was said after that but he set me straight that he wasn't a baby anymore!
This is my brother Scott and Lana. They said she would find an egg hunting and wouldn't want to put it down to hunt for another. Now I'll probably live to regret this and be teased to no end from my brother, but Yes..... I miss him too. He picks on me something fierce!! I mean BIG TIME! I hope my Sister in law is doing ok because he's probably doubling up on the picking on her since I'm not around! Sorry Amber! As kids he would even tease me. One time he said, "OH LORA! LOOK! Your name is on a sign!!!" and seeing that I have a name that is not spelled like others I got all excited!! I never see my name on anything. I excitedly replied, "WHERE SCOTT? WHERE?" He said. "Right there... see?? "DIP". " ....... yeah go on and laugh I know you want too. And I fell for that more than one or two times!! I guess I am a dip at times LOL But hey I'm a fun dip... no no not like the candy! LOL



Tuesday Jacob got out of School early so we were lucky enough to get to go out to the Discovery Stop and meet up with Heather, Gina and Jackie and their adorable kiddo's! I swear..the level of cutest was UP in the playroom that day with all our angels! :o) The boys had a great time!
Here's Legs...I mean Jacob on an almost too small John Deer Toy Tractor.
Nathan performed a little puppet show for me. TOO CUTE!
Then yesterday Jacob's cub scouts went to the Currier Downtown Art Museum here in town. They had a special kids project going on that day and the boys got to make Parachutes!! It was fun.
Here I am making sure Jacob's strings are attached well to his basket of his parachute. Nathan is coloring (with a sharpie, he's still green!) his parachute.
Here is Mr. Jake testing his parachute out. Looks like it's a good one!
The lady running the project took us all over to a court yard and dropped the parachutes out the 3rd story window. Jacob and Nathan's did great! Floated right down.
And a special Happy Birthday shout out to Jackie and Mike of the Manchvegas Knitters! We celebrated last night at Famous Dave's. What happens at Famous Dave's...Stays at Famous Dave's. :o) yeah right!
This is out our kitchen window.
Practicing our snowman technique in Lincoln's water bowl.
Testing out our skills...Lookin' good!
Snow man building is hard work. Time for a snack.
Nathan practicing his snowboarding skills... He's actually pretty good!!

This ole house once knew my children, this ole house once knew my wife;
Poor Nathan...Both my kids were blessed with long legs... and in Kentucky when it snowed, they were OK. But here we are in the North East and well...looks like he needs to grow a bit more!! There was a lot of lifting and placing Nathan before we were shoveled out.
I got in on the shoveling action. Started working on tire tracks and then worked on the front of the house, the porch and side walk. Half our drive way is gravel, so our neighbor can't snow blow it. We are thankful he does the front paved half though!!! So Lucky.
Bye the end of the job of shoveling, Brent and I were both out of our hats and coats and just had our layered clothes on. Wet up to our calves from the snow.
ok so posting that picture makes me think of something I keep saying I'll do and I keep forgetting!! Argh...what's up brain?? It's a simple request!
yeah ok...not going anywhere to fast in this car either now, are we? Well the plows did come through about midnight last night so if we can shovel our driveway a bit, we can then shovel out our cars. Oh what fun!
I did see people out driving on the street behind ours, so apparently you CAN get out. I don't guess I need anything but maybe Milk and I can always walk up to Bunny's Superette and get that.

She read a bit from her book and answered some questions. She seems very nice. After the book signing a couple of us from the group went to a local pub called McGarvy's where they had karaoke. A few opted to go across the street to a smoke free bar, but Ericka and I stayed at McGarvy's since she had already ordered onion rings and a drink. So I pulled up a stool and ordered myself a drink and got comfy. Ericka and I thought, what's the harm..we'll sing ONE song then go across the street and meet up with our friends (one which was her fiance'). Well one song let to two and then well ya know how it goes from there.
AH Squidd. What a dear heart! :) The guy hosting the karaoke that night was named Squidd. I started out the night singing "These Boots are Made for Walking" by Nancy Sinatra. Fun...did well... Ericka started with a little "Criminal" by Fiona Apple...she'd been a bad, bad girl. haha. Then when my turn came around again I belted out a little "White Rabbit". The moment this song was over was when I received my "Wicked Pissah" praise. Of course Ericka had to tell me that meant "really good"!! Ah still so much to learn about New England. LOL After I finished, Ericka belted out some "Proud Mary" with Squidd backing her up! ROCK ON! It was so fun! After awhile, OK maybe 2 hours, our friends showed back up wonder what the heck happened. We kinda just were like Oh what? yeah? um well.....KARAOKE happened. We were sucked in. We couldn't leave!!! We had one more song each in the wings!!!!! Ericka and I finished off the night with both of us doing tributes to Janis Joplin. I did Me & Bobby McGee, and I do believe I was the only one that got excited when I sang the phrase "From the Kentucky coal mines"......Ericka belted out Mercedes Benz and the whole bar erupted and sang along, clapping and banging on tables for the beat since Squidd decided Ericka was the featured A Cappella singer for the night. It was fun, awesome, enjoyable, entertaining!! Oh some guy did "Just a Gigolo" and I was about in tears laughing...he really hammed it up! So entertaining. Oh and some dude named Paul, very good voice!! But know what...HE DID NOT GET A WICKED PISSAH BABY!!!!! tee hee...ok done bragging.
Watch these blogs for pictures from the book signing if you're interested. NO PICTURES were taken at Karaoke...ya just should have been there. :)
Ericka,Heather,Gina,Nichole,Gigi (did you even have your camera??) and Jackie. Are in in the side bar links of my blog because right now I'm too lazy to link them here and I want to go eat an apple with my boys, then go outside and maybe blow some bubbles with Nathan...it looks nice out there.
Thanks for a fun night Ericka!!! I had a blast with ya!
Funny story about how Mom and dad are sitting beside Nathan. It wasn't enough that they were beside him but they had to be CLOSE!!! The first night they were here he wanted Pop pop beside him and every couple minutes Nathan would just reach over and touch Pop-pop as if to say "Is this real??" Every time he did it my dad would laugh! Nathan would sit at the head of the table and Mom and Dad would have to pull their chairs around to sit next to him on the end. It was a crack up! We got so tickled over it!
This is Mom and I knitting our dishcloths.
Nathan was "eating up" his Mom-mom serving him pancakes one morning! As you can see he has a handful of Starburst candy (he calls it Bubblegum) for pooping in the potty that morning. Pancakes fed to you and and Bubblegum....how much better can a three year old's life be?!? I think having Mom mom and Pop pop here just made it THAT much better!
Jacob's a funny sort. He has his moments where he'll cuddle and sometimes he just wants to be left alone. This particular morning he decided that Pop pop's lap was JUST the place to be and I think my dad ate that snuggle time up!
Yet another time Pop pop's lap got a work out!! Dad was amazed how Nathan could find his way around the Internet to the site's he wanted to play on.
While mom and dad were here we went to the See Science Center. I recommend this to anyone with little ones! It was so cool! The picture above is of the family sharing some popcorn before we left.
Here's a picture of the boys close to the entrance.
Nathan playing some music.
Jacob spinning in a chair.
Me and my mom in a three walled mirror. Kinda like a kaleidoscope. WILD to see that many of me!!
Yarn for me and well.... for Brent???
This is Fabric Sonya wants made in to a project bag.... Still want that bag Sonya after you've seen what Brent can do with it?!? Sexy? No?