happy new year!

We had a mild, and I do mean mild, New Year's Eve at the Lyons' abode. The festivities included the usual suspects, Jack Daniels and Beer, a few roadside fireworks and our friend Gary too. The precious little monsters didn't last much beyond 10:30, but that was to be expected. We had a visit from our five year old neighbor, Daniel, around 10:45. He regaled us with his delirious plans to stay up "all the way to one o'clock in the morning!" Then he wished us a "Happy New Year!" and went on about his merry way. We watched Napoleon Dynamite too. Holy crap does that movie make me laugh. I need a "vote for Pedro" t-shirt or somesing. Geez! Anyway, by 12:32am I was soundly asleep.

2005 is going to be a fabulous year, I can feel it...the precious little monsters let us all sleep in until almost NINE A.M. today. It is a glorious feeling to actually get a full night's sleep AND get to sleep in a little too. Lots of well boding for 2005 at the Lyons' house. If only we can get rid of all the snot.

Caleb STILL has a runny nose...STILL! Bless his little pea-picking heart, he already knows how to blow his own nose. Logan finally kicked his cold and ear infections. "Look Mom, my nose isn't 'notty." He asked me today where all the snot comes from and me, being the dutiful and responsible mother that I am, I took Logan by the hand and went straight to the computer to look it up on the internet. There are approximately 5,530,000 entries that fall within this search parameter on Google. This is by far my favorite link: Dr. and Mr. Haggis-on-Whey. I'll admit it right now, I spent an inordinate amount of time laughing my ass off as I wandered around this site. If you have a little time on your hands, I highly recommend you give this site a whirl.

the anniversary and snow...

Monday was our seventh wedding anniversary. What sort of special stuff does one do to celebrate one's seventh wedding anniversary? Please allow me to pontificate. At the Lyons' abode we celebrated our seventh anniversary by eating DE-LISH home made french onion soup topped off with the same cheese as The Stinky Cheese Man was made of. After eating the best french onion soup ever, we all piled on the couch and proceeded to watch Elf, one of my favorite holiday flicks. Amid the guffaws of my husband and myself, both of our precious little monsters managed to drift off the land of dancing sugar plums and flying Buzz Lightyears. Since both Logan and Caleb are currently battling ear infections and colds, we watched the rest of the movie with a symphony of little boy snores. Not a bad way to spend an anniversary if you ask me.

Tuesday was fairly uneventful, just the usual hustle and bustle of the holidays. And then Wednesday came. The snowiest snow day of the year so far.

I took this picture about thirty minutes into the all day flurry fest.

Caleb has never seen snow before today. When he woke up this morning he and I sat in the bay window in the kitchen and just watched the snow flakes float around the backyard. He would get totally amped when he would recognize one of his Tonka Trucks underneath all the snow. He just grinned and pointed and grunted. It was a moment very close to Logan's first snow experience. Both make me sort of well up when I think about them. Sniff.

Logan slept in this morning. As he made his way down the stairs, he stopped on the first landing and hunched down and looked out into the backyard. "It's 'nowing Mommy!" It was all the more heart-squeezing with his crazy bed head and sleepy eyes thrown into the mix. Logan made his way downstairs and took Caleb by the hand and walked him to window and said, "Wah Wah, this is 'now. Daddy put it in the yard for us this morning." Did your heart just explode? Mine did.

Seeing as my two precious little monsters are still sick, we did not bundle up and go out to play. Instead we made cranberry orange bread! Logan already knows the joy of licking beaters and bowls. Caleb just knows it's cool to do whatever big brother does. Caleb has Mud and Bugs cereal crumbs plastered all over his face, not a five o'clock shadow, in case you're wondering.

we're off...

We'll be seeing lots and lots of this:

I don't know who is more excited, Lynn and me or Logan. Caleb has no idea what's going on right now. I can't wait to see the boys' reaction to actually getting to see Playhouse Disney characters live and in person. This trip will make for tons and I do mean TONS of great pix. Wish us luck and a safe trip. Talk to you when we get back!