Happy Birthday Sebastian!!!

To our sweet boy!!! Another year has come and gone and you have filled it with love, laughter, kisses, hugs, and so much joy! We can't believe how you have grown... you were such a little guy- I called you my little nugget:

A year later you were our chunky monkey:

Now, our lean, not mean, laughing machine!!


My sweet blue eyed boy we wish you many, many, many more days filled with awe and wonderment. We love who you are.

You are an amazing son,

adoring brother,

and overall cool kid!

We look forward to all the amazing things you will learn and do this year! Thank you for sharing your smiles, love, and life with us!!!

Digging out

We usually do not have much digging to do since we do not have a paved driveway. Eddie just drives the truck back and forth the smash/smooth the designated area. But this past snow was super heavy and their was fear of the weight on the roof, so Eddie climbed up and shoveled out some sections to help out our old roof.

Blizzard 2010-scenery

My poor magnolia

playing with color swap

the lilac bush

Blizzard 2010 pics the people

Are you ready?
Playing in the snow



While we played- Vince stayed nice and warm on the air mattress by the fire

Lessons

The past 24 hours have taught me the following:

1. My husband rocks (well I already knew this, it was just reaffirmed). He woke up on Friday and chopped wood to make sure we had a nice supply for the impending storm.

2. Playing in the snow is more fun when you know you have a warm house to go back into!! When the for mentioned warmth is removed the snow does not look as enticing!!

3. Generators ROCK!!!! I am thankful we have one!!! We can not run all the necessities at once but we figured a nice rotation for the evening. (Yes we lost our power for 24 hours)

4. Sebastian LOVES the snow!!! He had a meltdown every time we brought him in.

5. That all I want to do is hibernate when the house is not toasty warm.

6. Taking care of a baby once you loose your "luxuries" is not fun!

How women did this in the "olden" days... my hats off to them!!!

My Pavlov's experiment

Sebastian LOVES tractors! Period. When he waits patiently beside me while I am on the computer I reward him with youtube videos of tractors. The two songs that play are Big Green Tractor by Jason Alden and Friend's with Tractors by Rodney Adkins.

Well, we were driving home from our ski trip yesterday. Both boys were asleep in the back. Thre radio was tuned into a local country station in the background while Eddie and I talked. The first few chords of a song played- I register it as a song I hear often, but did not think twice of it. Eddie on the other hand jumps up and starts to turn it down... it is then that I realize it was Big Green Tractor but not before Sebastian who was DEAD ASLEEP did. He woke up and in a really groggy voice cried out "tractor".

Sebastian the Skier