New App....

I discovered a new app for my iphone called instagram, it's free and pretty cool.  You take a picture and you can change it with some effects right from your phone.  You can post immediately to twitter and facebook, for a photobug like me, this is a really cool app, and one i know I'll use.  Check it out.

Here's a sample of little man playing with his toys.

Sunny snow pictures.

Mardi Gras......

I decided to do a Mardi Gras wreath this week, break up the pink, and red & hearts of Valentine's Day that is approaching.

The Blizzard of '12

Well, i don't think we can count this one as a blizzard, not by native standards.  We got about 17-19 inches out here depending on where you measured.  Eric measured by hours of shoveling, and it was about 5.  The snow started late Thursday night and continued into Saturday morning.  By then though the flakes were big and fat, and had slowed down.  On Friday Bri came over and she and the boys (with Eric's help) made a snow fort in the front yard complete with connecting tunnels and a fox hole.  Unfortunately all of this playing in the snow hurt Bri's back, and she ended up on the couch for 2 days,  But, we had a great snow weekend though with lots of eating and game playing.  By Saturday morning it was dry enough for Eric and A to go to a magic card game.  Rohan got to hang out with me and Auntie Bri.  We enjoyed movies and video games and hung out.

"No"



Snow Day Spillman Style



17 inches at 9am Saturday.  It started to slow after that.

Sunday

After church Sunday we took the boys to the new golden corral that opened not to far from us.  We've been to them before in Kansas, but for some reason they seemed to be bigger, and flow better.  Now i will admit that we went on a Sunday, after Church, right at lunchtime, with a bowling ally right behind them.  So, probably not our best idea.  However, it would seem to me this is the BEST time to try out a restaurant, when they are busy to see how things go.  We learned some things.  Never go at that time ever again, it was just to busy, period. If you want something, you HAVE to make yourself known, there are no lines for anything, there is no real definition of where the saute booth ends and the grill begins.  I don't like the lay out at all, it's not very Buffet like, really it's more cafeteria like.  The food though, now THAT was awesome.  Everything we ate we liked, i think the only thing that wasn't liked was the Mac 'n Cheese Rohan tried (but he's very diva like with his M&C) so we will go back, but maybe next time it'll be a Tuesday at 3 pm.

The boys discovered the cotton candy & chocolate fountain......

Howdy Ma'am

35.....

Friday the 13th has never been a big deal to me, I'm only superstitious about a few things (THANKS mom) but the 13th isn't one of them.  I like the number 13, it used to be my soccer jersey number.  And i have even more reason to like it, since it's Eric's birthday.  It was the big 35 for him this year, but as every other year Eric took it in stride. The boys and i gave him his gifts on Friday morning, which included his very own camping chair in the shape of R2D2 from Star wars, and a new work bag.  The boys got him some Reece's peanut butter cups (his favorite) then he had to work BOO!!  But he was able to come home at lunch time and eat with us.  For dinner i made Tai Chicken soup and a spice cake for dessert.  We played some games and had a pretty good day.  Eric isn't big on party's so this was a perfect way for us to help him celebrate.  He got pretty spoiled i think with Shirts from his parents and some cash money from my mom (wow she knows what people like) the weekend was good with a lot of relaxing on Saturday, Eric was able to go play Magic while the boys and i hung out ate whatever we wanted and watched Seinfeld (well, i watched they fell asleep) and then Sunday we took the boys back to the museum for some play time.  We also got to see the new Elmo & Big Bird planetarium show, it was really cool.  All in all (except for an incident with Rohan) it was a GREAT weekend.  I wish they could all be like that, minimal money spent, but lots of fun & memories.  Happy birthday to my love!! 

Eric's very own camping chair, and new bag

Bag of holding (it's funny because its a D20)

This cake is terrible, but as the boys learned, even if it doesn't LOOK awesome, it still tatstes awesome

Birthday wish!

The boys are horrible slumber party dates :-)