catching up...

wow. i am really behind on this blog. here's what's been happening since i last blogged.

1. we finally got our house painted. we have been waiting until all the rain stopped in the fall. it finally did (for a couple days) and we got it painted. it looks really nice.

2. mckinlee has been curling her hair and wore it to school this way. something different. yay!
3. chris got his cholesterol checked and it was high. he has really been eating good since then. this meal was not what i wanted but it turned out to be pretty good. salmon on spinach and mixed greens with vinaigrette. after dinner chris said, "that was really good. even better than the salmon salad i had for lunch!"
4. we took ryan, camila and mckinlee out of school early last friday. we took them to lunch and ice skating. patricia and i froze to death for 3 hours watching them skate.
5. this is "our" new outdoor cat, dreamcicle. he comes for food and to sleep on our porch sometimes. chris is thrilled, hopeful that he will stay around and keep all the rabbits out of our yard.
6. we spent a fun week in waco. this day, mom took mckinlee and lauren to practically pikasso to be creative. here they are working.
7. here are the masterpieces just waiting to be fired. they were so cute when they were finished.
8. mom and i watching the girls paint.
9. mck & lauren downtown.
10. this was such a cute place we ate lunch at. i think it's called the olive branch.
11. my yummy lunch. wonderful potato soup!
12. taking mom and danielle's picture in spice. trying to get a picture for them to use for real estate. took some cute ones--just not any they were able to use. we found at later it needed to be vertical and i had taken them all horizontal! go figure.
13. mck took one of me with my short hair.
14. we spent the night at chris' mom and dad's and had a nice visit with them. she has been feeling so bad lately, but was feeling pretty good this day. i thought this was such a cute one of her and mckinlee.
15. we spent some time visiting grandaddy. right before we left to come home, we stopped to say goodbye. nathan was there with his guitar~so we all sang a song before we left.
16. when we got home, this is what we found! we were so excited.
17. i just loved this sign covered in snow.
18. dreamcicle's pawprints from his napping spot under the tree up to the porch.
19. mckinlee and i made these the other day. can you say delicious?
20. we took the girls skating yesterday. i just love all the music they play at skating rinks. takes me back to my childhood! (or at least the 80's.)
21. i had a few of the girls over to scrapbook and make cards today. here's michele and julie.
22. and mindy and me.
23. here's what it looked like outside my front door this afternoon. it was the perfect day to scrapbook. snowing outside~potato soup and coffee inside.
24. here's what the girls did while we were being creative.
25. here's a couple cards i made.
26. here are the other two.
well, that pretty much sums up what we've been up to the past week and a half.
off to watch full house with mckinlee. i just love that cheesy show. was uncle jesse the cutest or what?