The little budgies are Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, the newest additions to our zoo!! A coworker of Chelsea's decided they needed a better home than she could give them right now, so they came to live with us!! They are very entertaining already, they love to sing, and just adore eachother. Right now the cage they were brought to us in is a little small for 2, so we are off to do some shopping. Hopefully I can get some better pics tomorrow or this weekend. Everyone enjoy what is left of the week!!!
On Thursday if finally looked and felt like winter again. This was only our 2nd snowfall that included any accumulation. I have always loved winter, not just the cold temps but the beauty of the snow and how it has the ability to make everything look so pretty. Normally with my eye issues too much white is not a good thing, and if we have snow on the ground and lots of sunshine it is not a good combo for me at all, but I still love it!! I know, some of you may still think I am insane for enjoying winter so much, and that's ok, I can deal with it :) Anyway here are some pics that we took on Thursday before we headed to the orthodontist to pick up Meg's retainers. The roads were HORRIBLE because no one had bothered to put anything on them, let alone plow them. But it was nice riding with Todd and Meg in the truck watching the snow basically pour from the sky and watching the transformation of the landscape as a normal 20-25 minute trip turned into about a 45 minute trip!! The first one is the center of the court we live in...
That is my kitchen window and my poor butterfly bush and bird feeders...
This is the tree directly across from us that I love all year...
Most of the snow has melted now and we are having some really cold temps, but not as cold as back home, thank goodness. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!!!
Well dark and early Friday morning we headed to the orthodontist, and by 7:30 we were done, and Megan FINALLY had her braces off!!!! YAY!!!!!! We didn't have much of a celebration because Meg and I both have horrible colds. We are both a little better today. When we were leaving the ortho they handed her a bag full of candy that she wasn't allowed to have, and I said great, now I will owe the dentist extra money!! :) She was very excited to be able to chew gum. She will have her teeth cleaned this coming week and on the 14th she will get her retainers. If we feel much better this week I will post some pics of her beautiful, braceless smile!!! Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Well it's only the 2nd and all of the girls had to go back to school today. Dawn because she decided to do her Jan. term this year otherwise she would have been home until the 27th. Chels and Meg had to go back because they basically got screwed out of a decent holiday vacation by the county. They had 11 days off, which just wasn't enough for them or me!! Almost every other county in the state and several other states that I know of, had until the 7th. So my girls were not happy about getting up early this morning and going back. Their break did seem to just fly by. Of course Todd also had to head back to work today, but only for a partial day since we had to take Dawn back up to school. Friday morning he also gets to miss some work, but it's for a very good thing. Hopefully after months and months of saying they will take them off next time, Megan should FINALLY be getting her braces off!!!!! They said it was a good possiblity last time, then decided she needed a few more weeks, plus rubberbands to help, but the orthodontist promised her that on the 4th she would definitely take them off. Unless they see something that isn't quite right, they better take them off or Meg and I both may cause someone some serious pain tomorrow. I know things have to be a certain way before they come off, but they have been getting her hopes up since June that it wouldn't be much longer and then it turned into by the end of the summer, then it was next time, and so on. It's just not nice to get her hopes up and then crush them. She has had them on since August of 2004 and boy is she sick of them, and so are the rest of us :) She can't wait to chew gum again and eat some popcorn!!! So hopefully Friday night we will be having a nice celebration without braces!!! But tomorrow I will be enjoying a day of peace and quiet. I will have the house to myself, well along with my mini zoo!!! I hope everyones new year is off to a great start!!
