Snow Friends, Sore Legs and a Spanish Woman in our Bedroom

I bet that you are really wondering about that title.

Well, hang on, you have to hear some other stories first.

The boys were at work,

they were restless,

they wanted to play in the snow.

Always ready to take off work early,

I volunteered of course!

Don't they look cute with their snowmen we built?

And a pic of the three snowmen builders together.

 And one picture of us trying to roll the biggest snowball ever!

Well, at least I was trying to roll the biggest snowball ever.

That is Logan laying on the ground making one of the 35 or so snow angels that he made

and Tyler forming yet another snowball to pound me with.

But before all that...

We went sled riding.

Up and down this huge hill over and over.

Pulling tired little boys UP the hill on the sled. 

The best moment of the day. 

Walking back up the hill, holding my hand, Logan says.

"This time all three kids ride."

I ask who the three kids are?

He responds, 

"Gramma, Tyler and Logan!"

 

Now I have been going to the gym off and on since the beginning of the year.

Lately more off than on.

When I started,

JWS and his buddy Bill,

both seasoned gym rats,

AKA

Hans and Franz

(of SNL, "we are going to pump you up" if you are old enough to remember)

kept showing me how the machines worked.

Let's just say that their targeted areas of exercise were not the same as mine

and

they had a hard time understanding that

until

I put is bluntly and told them that they needed work

ABOVE the Belly Button,

and

I need work

BELOW the Belly Button.

So,

they loaded the weights on the leg pushes,

on the squat machines

on whatever they could find.

Lots of weights and....

NOTHING! 

Nothing they showed me even made my legs sore.

180 pounds of weight on the leg press and

STILL NOTHING.

Sled riding with two little boys on Wednesday.

I sure had sore legs on Thursday...and still do!

Let's see

Gym Membership

$$$$

Orange Plastic Sled

$7.99

Time spent to be never forgotten.

Priceless!  

And of course,

Some more bunnies.

I tried a larger one,

actually I have an order for a larger one,

but

this one was for Shelby's birthday.

I just noticed that I forgot the tail.

 And a few more butterflies. 

I found this glittery yarn and had to try a couple with that.

Are you getting tired of these yet?

'cause I am not.

 I finally figured out how to load pics off of my camera to the computer with the cord.

Oh, who am I kidding?

I actually just found the cord!

It might or might not have gotten lost when we went to Hershey and just showed up in the laptop case.

Whew! 

I thought it was gone for good.

This is a pic of Gracelyn from our shopping trip a week ago.

She is such a little diva and is such a great shopper!

 And Kendall was fascinated with the boys snowmen yesterday.

More snow today, so maybe they will get some more friends!

If there is anything good about these end of winter snows,

it is that they are sure good packing snow, 

and 

it warms up enough to not mind being out in it.  

 This picture was also on my camera.

I gave the boys watercolor paints.

How can you make this much mess with WATERCOLORS?

And now...

If you are still with me

and

still anxiously awaiting to hear about the

Spanish Woman in our Bedroom.

Here it is.

As I was sitting dozing in the recliner at about 10:30 last night,

I mustered up the strength to get up and hobble, yes HOBBLE

to the bedroom.

(Refer back to the sled riding to explain the HOBBLE.)

JWS is engrossed in yet another episode of Swamp Men.

I lay down and start to doze.

And I hear him.

He is coming to bed also. 

Instead of coming in quietly, calmly,

He pounds in,

Laundry basket in hand and with one movement, sets the laundry basket on the bed

and hits the remote to finish watching Swamp Men in the bedroom.

Yes,

he does his own laundry and he does get Brownie points for that,

but

he proceeds to put his laundry away

while

he watches Swamp Men

and while

I wanted to sleep.

He gets through that and lays down in bed and picks up his cell phone,

I doze back off.

I hear.

"WHERE CAN I BUY A PIZZA?"

Loud.

I wake with a start and he is talking into his phone.

I doze off.

Again.

"WHERE CAN I BUY A PIZZA?"

This time I very nicely say (sarcasm)

one eye open,

"What are you doing?"

To which he responds,

"You are going to love this."

Doze off once again, when I am jolted awake to

Miquela the Spanish woman

repeating his phrase in Spanish.

LOUD.

I hate being woke up when I first lay down.

Really hate it.

I tell him, through clenched teeth,

"Turn the phone down!"

And he keeps it up.

Phrase after phrase.

and

Miquela

repeats

them

back

to

him.

Phrase after phrase.

In our eight years of marriage we have been through a lot.

Four Weddings,

Five babies,

Sick family members,

a Kidney Stone,

a Hysterectomy,

Menopause...

I wonder if the marriage is going to survive SMART PHONES!