It's a fine day for a circus!

Brodie got his first taste of showbiz when he appeared in Farnahan's Circus at The New School. What a blast. He got to be a snowcone vendor. When he came home and told us what part he got he said he was a defender. Hope you enjoy the show!

Sledding

Finally some good snow. We had a tiny bit of snow, but it was enough for a little sledding.

The Great Ice Storm of 2009

The great Ice Storm of 2009 was quite an adventure. It began innocently enough with a little freezing rain. Before we knew it we were living in a winter wonderland with no power and trees breaking and falling all around us. It was increadibly beautiful and horribly devastating at the same time. We lost power on a Tuesday afternoon. Brodie and I went outside and couldn't believe the level of destruction that was already taking place. Trees were breaking and limbs falling all around. We had to be careful to stay in the street away from trees for our own safety. The sounds were incredible too. We didn't get our power back until late Thursday evening. We spent our days walking around looking at everything, going to eat at some of the few restaurants with power, or sitting in front of our gas fireplace. Thank goodness for gas water heaters and a gas fireplace. How I wish we had a gas cooktop. We moved a mattress to the living room and slept in front of the fireplace. Brodie thought it was a great adventure. We went to see Stella Luna at WAC on Friday morning. Our power went off again while we were gone. Our heater went out too so when the power came back on the house stayed cold. Luckily on Saturday someone came to fix it and the weather was beautiful. We had to start the clean-up process, but it was very warm outside. Brodie wore shorts while we cleaned up all the sticks and debris left behind after the storm. We hired some guys to cut the broken limbs out of our trees and we cut them up and piled them on the street to be picked up. I'll post a link to our photos sometime soon.

Merry Christmas

The Christmas season was lots of fun too. We got to do the Christmas Parade in Fayetteville with our good friends Kevin, Dawn, Kade and Kamden. We did the Santa breakfast at ACO with Xavier, JC, and David. Then we rode the Santa train to Rogers and back. Thank goodness we had some help with that. Back-up parents!!!! How can four little boys be that crazy? We were lucky enough to enjoy Christmas Eve services at New Heights Church with Barbara, Buddy and Sophie and have Christmas Eve dinner with them too. We were sorry we missed the Cartwright's Christmas Eve party -maybe next year. Our families came here the weekend after Christmas. We so enjoyed getting to see everyone. Sunday morning we went to the hotel for breakfast and a swim before everyone left. Hard to believe we have reached the end of another year.