Abbey and Grandpa's birthdays

Saturday was Abbey's 6th. birthday and Grandpa's birthday, he is older! Abbey had several friends over for her party. Nichole and her best friend, Caroline, helped with the party and taught the girls how to dance the "Cupid Hussle".

It looked like Abbey was getting into it.

The girls had s "Fashion Show" and grandpa got into it, also. Abbey has grandpa wrapped around her little finger, so that was why grandpa was wearing the crown and boa. Kim even made grandpa a little cake just for him. Abbey was really pleased with the "Barbie Cake" that her mom had made. The girls had a great time and they enjoyed the cake and ice cream. The girls did a lot of running around the house, sort of "letting off steam". They played pin the jewel on the crown and they also made bracelets and necklaces with colorful beads. They had a great time! Presents were opened and then the parents showed up to pick up the girls.

She got several clothes outfits, several shirts, Barbie dolls, a necklace, and the best gift was a DS player. She spent the next hour playing with her DS, which I don't know exactly what it is, except that it is an electronic game.

Nichole's birthday is April 6, and she will be 9 years old. Also, another grand-daughter will be 7 years old on that date, but she lives up in Ohio.

More to come, later.

Abbey's musical program at school

This was the kindergarten musical program. Abbey had a great time singing with her classmates and friends.

Her best friend, Lilian, was to her left. They had a great time singing the songs and then dancing after the program. There were a lot of dancers on the floor, including Nichole and Caroline. They did enjoy the "Limbo" as well as the "Chicken" and a lot of other dances. Everyone had a great time at the program.

Nichole's third grade musical program for Presidents' Day

Nichole asked me to go to her luncheon at school for her third grade musical program for Presidents' Day. I had a Chef's Salad, green beans, applesauce, chocolate milk, and a cookie, that I gave to Nichole to eat. The third graders made all the place mats that were used in the cafeteria for our trays. They did a great job. They had also drawn figures of the famous men in history and put them on the back wall of the cafeteria. It was different going through a cafeteria line, since neither our elementary, nor our high school had a cafeteria. Now, most schools have them.

We were really surprised that Nichole was in the front row of a program. Our family has always been very TALL, and none of us have ever been in the front row. Maybe, since the kids were on risers, that was the reason. She was in the group that sang up front. Nichole was in the back, and you can see her face and hat. They did a great job with the program, with different students playing the parts of the presidents whose birthdays they were celebrating.

All the parents and grandparents thought that the third graders had a great program. The students were allowed to go home after the program was over, at 1 p.m.

Tomorrow is the kindergarten musical program, so I will also be going to Abbey's program. It is being held at 5:30 at the school.

8 inches of SNOW-and no electricity for 88 hours

Our power went out on Sunday at 7 p.m. on March 1st. I guess March does come in like a "LION".

Eight inches of SNOW.. We weren't really thinking that we would get that much snow. The top picture are the Easter Lilies that were just coming up, and now hidden by all the snow. Isn't it just great how the snow plow driver missed all the snow in front of our mail boxes! We didn't get any mail delivery on Monday. I thought the post offices' motto is: "We deliver in rain, snow, sleet, and hail" but I guess they don't.

The one picture has a tree cracked right over the "End State Maintenance" sign. I wonder if we push it over to the "State Maintenance" side, that they will take care of it. LOL

At least we were able to get to Todd and Kim's on Wednesday and take showers. Then, we went to Walmart to get some drinking water and some snacks, apples, and hot dogs to cook in the wood burner. We ate lunch at Burger King and then went to Ruby Tuesdays for supper. The meal there wasn't that great, but it was FOOD.

The pine trees down here just bent over with the ice. We had three inches of rain on Sunday afternoon, then it froze, then the snow came. I hope that most of the trees that bent over and were touching the ground will stand back up again. There were quite a few trees that Charlie had to use the chain saw on, so we could get our car out of our road.

We got our power back on at 11 a.m. on March 5th. We were so glad to have lights, water, heat, and were able to get food in the house to eat. I had cleaned out both freezers and refrigerators, and threw all the food away. We were very lucky that there wasn't much in either freezer or the refrigerators.

We are hoping that we won't have any more snow storms this winter. We are too used to the modern conveniences to be without them for such a long time.

WE ARE WAITING FOR SPRING TO GET HERE VERY SOON.