{game on!}

{Brrr}

Baby it's cold outside!

{the verdict}

Sledding? A big YES from Gerard. A big NO NO NO NO DON'T MAKE ME GO DOWN AGAIN from Morgan. Too fast. Too cold. Too high up. Too much snow in her face.

Hot chocolate from McDonald's afterwards? A big YES from everyone.

A disheveled (and slightly disgruntled) Morgan:

{morons}

Don't people have anything better to do than hack into other peoples e-mail accounts and send spam to everyone in their contact list? Apparently not. If you were one of the lucky people to receive spam from my e-mail address, I'm sorry. Hopefully it won't happen again.

{shhh...}

Can you hear that? Silence. Shhhhhh....... Gerard took the kids sledding, so I have a few hours to myself. Heaven!

Let's hope they look as happy in the "after" picture.

It's been a busy weekend, so this is a welcome break for me. Gerard had hockey practice yesterday and a game today. He played at a friend's house yesterday and Morgan went to a birthday party. Of course we had to watch the Steelers yesterday, too.

After hockey this morning we went out to lunch and then ran some errands. We needed to get shoes for the kids for Aunt Elizabeth's wedding. Now I'm on the hunt for kilt hose for little Gerard, as he'll be wearing a kilt for the wedding! Anybody have a pair lying around that we could borrow? The kids are excited, and according to Morgan, Gerard is going to be the "ring bear" and she is going to be "a flower". Should be cute! Be on the lookout for pictures later in February!

{the general lee}

Well, my car is in the shop because I can't open my front door. Therefore I have to crawl in and out through the passenger door or use the Dukes of Hazard method. Not too graceful either way, but the good news is that we're getting all the dents and dings fixed up to, so she'll be good as new by Friday!

{winter fun}

We had our friends over yesterday after hockey. They have 3 boys -- the oldest plays hockey with Gerard and the youngest is in Morgan's preschool class. The middle one is just plain cute. We had a really nice afternoon. The big boys (and the Dads) played hockey for hours outside while the little kids played in the snow. The moms stayed outside for the obligatory pictures and then came inside and watched everyone through the window. Much warmer that way. :)

Then we went to our other friends' house last night. The kids are all finally old enough to be able to play unsupervised while the adults hang out and play some games of our own. The only problem was that we didn't get home until 10:30 last night. The kids were exhausted -- especially Gerard who had played hockey for about 5 hours during the day -- then he had hockey practice this morning at 8:00. Waking him at 6:45 was rough. Needless to say Morgan and I are still in our pajamas at 10:00. The boys should be home soon and I have a feeling it will be a pretty laid-back kind of day.

Enjoy your Sunday, everyone!