Our Redneck Snowman!

Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman
Once there was a snowman, named JimBob!
He liked to go a fishin', huntin', crabbin'
He was the biggest redneck you ever saw!

This is our redneck snowman Clay and Izzy made. He even has a Lynyrd Synyrd hat on and is missing a tooth. All he needs is a fishin' pole, a rifle, a crab net, and if you want to be a true St. Mary's redneck you gotta have a 10 oz. Bud Light beer can. But since he's our snowman, he's a teetotaler. :)

More STINKIN' Snow!

I officially hate snow, too bad it's so pretty. If it would stay off the roads it wouldn't be so bad. We have power back, Hallelujah, we were without for 24 hours, from 1 pm Sat. to 1 pm. Sun. There were four trees down on some power lines. Needless to say, we had a really cold night, thank goodness for heavy-duty sleeping bags that we could drape over our beds. Anyway, I got some good, before (well more like during) and after pictures. Here is Izzy standing on a snow drift early Sat. morning and again Sun. morning. It was a lot bigger, and as you can see we used it as a temporary freezer for our ice cream and such.

Here is our picnic table with the pretty tree above it. And below is the poor tree drooping over the picnic table from the weight of the ice and snow.

These are during and after pics of my car.

These are during and after pics of my car and Clay's work truck.

Here is a during and after pic of a poor tree we all felt bad for it just kept drooping further and further.

Here you can see a tree that fell over onto our landlord's drive way. You can see the trunk of the tree on the right and the top branches hanging over the fenced entrance of Mr. Shafer's (our landlord) driveway on the left.
Here is Izzy watching her daddy, Mr. Shafer, his nephew and great nephews cutting up the felled tree and moving it out of the way.
Here you can see another tree that snapped about ten feet up and fell, only to catch on some other trees so that it is parallel with the end of our driveway. The guys took care of that tree as well.
Here are some lovely icicles.
Above, is part of the tree over-hanging the picnic table, touching the ground, or rather, the top of the snow. Below, is the rest of the tree, it almost seems as if it cradling the tree, protecting it.
Here is the front yard, it looks so pretty.
Here's part of the side yard.
Here is a different view of the front yard.
Pretty snow covered branches.
This tree looks like a giant snow covered Christmas tree.

More Snow...Grrrrrr!

More stinking snow! Oh well, Izzy loves it. Her cousin, Alyse, stayed over for the weekend and they had fun playing in the snow. They decided to try sledding. So they climbed up this little hill made of a huge mound of mulch.

They got ready and took off...

But they didn't get to far and sort of got stuck because the snow was a powder snow, not good for sledding or making snowballs. The worst kind of snow if you're a kid wanting to have a great time playing in the snow. It's good for making snow angels, but that's about it.

This is what it looked like Sunday morning when it finally stopped snowing.
Izzy loved to try to walk through the deepest parts of the snow, here she is seeking out a deep spot.

Izzy got out the dustpan again and used it as a shovel. She had fun throwing it up into the air.

Doubled Eggs

So, Izzy will probably be so embarrassed about this when she is older, but it was just too cute not to share. Izzy had super stinky gas the other day (like clear the room bad) and after one of her particularly foul ones she said, "Ooooo, my toots smell like doubled eggs." It was the most hilarious thing ever. She meant deviled eggs, of course, but her version is way better.

And another embarrassing thing, but my husband won't care, because he doesn't embarrass very easily. Clay had this bout of foul gas at the same time as Izzy (I know poor me right, I literally followed them around with air freshener, so not kidding about that). Well, when he produced a rather noxious one as well I said, "Seriously, Clay, put a cork in it." And Izzy said, "What's a cork?" So I explained that a cork in something you put in the top of a bottle, kind of like a cap, so the liquid won't spill out. Without missing a beat she looked at Clay and said, "Daddy you need a doorknob." I so laughed my butt off. Clay did as well. I tell you, we never know what is going to come out of that little girl's mouth, she is just sooooooo funny!

Go Fish!

Izzy loves to play Go Fish! She asked her Uncle Tony to play with her last night. Well, apparently it had been a while since he'd played the game and when he did something the wrong way she sure let him know it. She finally let out an exasperated sigh and said, "I don't think he knows how to play this very well." We all cracked up, it was so funny. I guess we'll have to send Tony to remedial Go Fish classes. :)

After the girls had a bath they both cuddled up with their Papa. Izzy munched on a Klondike Bar while Papa combed her hair, and Abby tried desperately to mooch as much chocolate as she could.

Dress Up

My Aunt Susie loves to spoil her nieces and nephews and now that she has two great nieces she can do even more spoiling. She got Izzy a bunch of dress-up clothes for Christmas, and Izzy was in 7th Heaven. Here she is all decked out.

Her daddy showed her how a prince would kiss a princess's hand. And then the there's the blackmail picture. Izzy made Clay put on her stuff and so I had to get a picture. He's such a good daddy.


Here is a picture of Izzy and Abby snuggling on Izzy's princess couch. They are so cute together.

Decorating the Tree

This is what happens when a four year old decides to "decorate" the Christmas tree. You get: a hair clip, some string, wrapping paper,

a princess fan,
a medicine bottle band,

a Tinkerbell tiara,

a gold headband of some sort,

a pig sticker,

a slinky, more wrapping paper, and last, but not least, a baby doll hat. I don't know how we managed to decorate the tree before we had her, we aren't nearly as creative.