First let's say a 

BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR TOAD IN TEXAS!  

WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND WISH WE COULD BE THERE TO GIVE A BIG PARTY THAT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE BUT SOMEWHERE DEEP DOWN YOU WERE HAPPY WE DID! 

:-)

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MISS YOU MUCH

On another note some of the Anderson tribe is sick, well half and the other half are helping.  Matt, Logan  and Boone Dog all have the yuckies.

Matt's home from work sick and Logan started last night, I am afraid Jack is heading in the same direction. I luckily feel fine.  I am not going to say too much, I am too superstitions, let's just hope it all passes soon and we can get back to our daily routine.  It seems since the holidays we haven't been back.  We keep tripping and trying to open our eyes to find a pot holes and start overs.  Oh well, like I said, the month of January is usually full of false exists.  February brings a new groove and anticipations.  We almost have the house put back together, but it keeps raining and it is hard to finish staining the back deck.  The garage is almost ready for the minivan and all decorations are nestled back up on top of the garage storage unit waiting til next year.  

I don't have much more right now, I have to help with the sick.  Most of all wanted to say birthday wishes to Toad.  Hope he gets a chance to read this!

Some pictures to share from playing out in the weird weather days here in East TN.  It's been snowing, storming, and sunny all in one week!  right now another thunderstorm is brewing, the wind is howling, and I am in short sleeves.  They say it will 24 tonight?!

I really must do some research on this and get back you to you with my thoughts.  Maybe sometime this week.

For now........listen to the rain.

Lov'in it

We skyped the TX TOADS yesterday and we sure miss them!

Thought I would post some more pictures from New Years and the days following....I told Mom Mom Mary that I would :-)

As for the Anderson's......really just been trying to put my house back together.

You know how it is after the holidays.  Some how Matt and I get a little depressed.  All the excitement is gone and we go back into the "real" world.  We do it every year.  We come out of the fog around February.

It's a nice time to hibernate, wish the weather would start feeling like WINTER instead of SPRING....

Come Ole Man Winter.....Give of something to talk about......I was watching the weather channel and this time last year to the day there was an Ice Storm in Atlanta that closed schools for almost a week!  Now look at it?  Global Warming?  Open to input.  I'd love to hear what you guys think out there on this subject....there needs to be more discussion if anything....I feel like no one talks about it...the media that is...just that the weather is "unseasonablly' mild.  Come on folks things are shifting all over the place.......

its worth putting our human brains on!  THINK....WHAT DO YOU THINK?

LOVE FROM A YOUNGER DAY

this guy is telling me something....?


when i was little girl i used to say, "oh, look there's a cow, they are my babies....."   I LOVE cow's....
I met him the other day....i am pleased....I love him...
he is part of my soul.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wow!

It's over!

The celebrating.

The eating.

The shopping.

The holdiays'.

I am tired and ready to get back to "normal".

My brand of normal anyway.

The time has come to pick all the toys up and clean the house and try to get ready to be locked away for the winter.

The air is cold tonight.  Some say snow flurries are to come.  Matt built a fire and the kids are running around in their underwear like its summer.  Some things never change.

I am certainly not looking forward to the cleaning.  Cleaning is not my thing.  I tolerate it and certainly like a clean house.  I will not hide the truth though,  I can't wait to get a "cleaning buddy" to come in and clean and I hand over a 100 bucks ---- worth EVERY PENNY.

I have lots of ideas brewing inside my head for the next year.  I have visions of grandeur some may say.  That's OK, if I get even a hair close to what I want to accomplish I will be satisfied.  The kids don't go back to school until next Monday....so.....who knows what I will get done this week.  One goal, is to clean my studio.  I have plans of renovations.  Plans to redo and get a little more "FOCUSED".

I'll keep you "POSTED" on the progress and of course, on all the Anderson Crazies.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL