Happy Birthday Ace, Tex, Jet and Stephanie!

It was really the day of Stephanie's birthday, but with Jet's and the twins' birthday so close by, it made for a quadruple celebration :)

As always, it is fascinating to see how the boys interact when there is a whole bunch of them crammed into the house. The younger ones stick to themselves, the older bunch gravitate towards each other and have a "big boys' club" of sorts, and Jaxon kind of does his own thing and goes back and forth between both cliques.

How does Stephanie do it, we all wonder. Such a sweet and inspiring woman, she is. And with 5 children in tow every day. Wow. Just Wow.

Jet was pretty astonished to find out that he and Jaxon were the same age. ( well, at least for another month until the little boy turns 9 - Oh Good Lord )

And then, there was Sky. Sweet Plate-Licking Sky. The little girl who is MORE than capable of holding her one with this wild bunch.

We had gotten a huge Peppa Pig coloring book for the twins.  Jaxon was very amused as they tore the wrapping paper off, gasped and ran off right away to get their coloring markers.

Jet, on the other hand, received birthday money from us, partly because we thought he might like to use it to get what HE might want.. but mostly because I was truly out of ideas. LOL

Someone got him a hoola hoop and he proceeded to impress us with his excellent skillz.

One thing about children, they can get together and just start playing.  It helps when the owner of the toys is generous and shares with his cousins.  The boys had a blast with the hilarious HeadBandz game that Jet got.

Then, Jet and the little boy set to work on one of the twins' new jigsaw puzzle.

Ah, Family :)

The Rare Snow

We don't get much snow here in Abilene. Once a year would be the average. Twice a year would be a treat.

So it isn't surprising that when we get some snow, it is A Big Deal. Even if it was more SLEET than snow.

Especially for the little boy :)

We should all maintain that intrigue and childlike wonder forever.

Even the cat was intrigued :)

Don't get me wrong. There are a lot of Adult Responsibilities that have to be tended to whenever there is snow or sleet.

But shouldn't we make some time to take in all the wonderment?

We had to go out to town the next day, and we thought we were in the clear since we had removed all the snow from the windscreen and whatnot.

However, when we came to a halt at a light, snow/ice from the ROOF of our car came tumbling down.  It was pretty abrupt and unexpected, but Thank Goodness it didn't totally obstruct the hub's view to where he couldn't drive.

We still love you, Winter and Snow.

Happy Valentine's!

I don't make crepes very often. In fact, I hardly ever make them - i.e. the need strikes me every um, other year or so.   This time, I thought I'd make some for Valentine's, seeing how it's a very popular Valentine's Day brunch, and how I had run out of ideas.

They were the very first things that popped on screen when I Googled "Valentine's Day Brunch" , and hey, why fight it, aye?


Did you notice how I curved the bacon to make hearts?
Yeah.

And the hubs got some strawberries and made some Chocolate Dip From Scratch and we had some lovely Fondue :)

Super Blue Blood Moon 2018

We woke the little boy early on the morning of The Great Event.

We watched till the whole moon was eclipsed.


And by then, dawn was breaking and it was time to wake up.

Alas. Zzzzzzzzz.