A snow update from the Slacking Blogger

Here it is the last week of January already. Time flies faster than I'd like to admit. Today I thought I'd post a few pics of the snow we were "blessed" with yesterday and today... take a look! We got 3 or so inches of ice sludge last night, topped with 5-6 inches of snow today. (By the way, I'm disgusted with the quality of pictures that my camera phone takes, but my "real" camera isn't working so this is all you're gonna get. Sorry!)








Here are a few from last week when I took the dogs out for a run in the snow.






Also, Audrey is now "scooting". She crawls backwards, basically. It's adorable and so fun to watch! I'll leave the room for 1-2 minutes while she is playing on her blanket, only to come back and find her in places like this:


For all of Audrey's adoring fans, I want to let you know she is doing great. Growing and developing on schedule, talking away in her charming baby language, eating finger foods of all sorts, and more active than ever. Praise God for such a sweet, wonderful little girl!!! My heart practically bursts daily with love and joy. Here is one more cute picture of her surrounded (and adorned) with gifts from her Uncle Kyle and Aunt Jennifer. (The video game in her hands was for Eric, don't go freaking out on me now! :D)

More Pictures!

Once again, I am failing at blogging as much as I'd like to! There is much that I'd like to write about, and will do so someday soon. For now, more pictures of my sweet baby will have to suffice! (Note: there are TONS of pictures coming up in the next few days from our wonderful Christmas with my family who visited from CA.)

Christmas Time is Here

Happiness and cheer, fun for all that children call their favorite time of year. I have certainly caught the Christmas cheer this year! I also rhyme, in case you didn't know. Anyway, it became obvious to me this evening that my case of Christmas cheer is particularly strong, when I hauled a stereo into the kitchen so I could listen to Christmas music while doing the dishes. You can hardly blame me... It has been very cold outside, snowing on and off. There are countless holiday movies on tv (most of them corny and lame, but somehow endearing). My decorating is done and my house feels cozy. I shuffle around in my nasty old slippers, drinking steaming coffee while watching snow fall softly outside. Meanwhile Audrey is rolling around on the floor, pulling ornaments off the Christmas tree and getting covered in dog hair from head to toe..... I have pictures!

Watching me decorate:

The wreath I made for the front door:

Before:

After:

Ornaments from my childhood:

My piano is standing in for a
fireplace to hang the stockings:

Here are some shots that I took from our small group Christmas party last night. We had a wonderful time eating, talking, watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, opening gifts and playing with Audrey. Everyone adores her! She's the life of the party. Naturally!

"Uncle" Zac and Audrey:

We did a white elephant gift exchange:


Shelby watched intently as Laura opened her gift...

Audrey was highly entertained by Zac's gift,
and refused to play with anything else for awhile.


Daisy = adorable!

Eric serenaded us:

Audrey in her "pre-crawling" stance. First time I'd seen it!
(She'll be crawling soon)

Audrey and Daisy were friends from the start.
They even rolled around on the floor together:

"Aunt" Jill and Audrey:

One of my faves:

More to come soon. I have some cute non-Christmasy pictures of the little munchkin to post. Good night fellow bloggers!