Snow Cream, Snowballs and Sledding

Today we had our first "real" snow day since 1993; in which, Mason wasn't even born. Sooo really this was Mason's first memory of SNOW.

I'm not sure I can even recall the first memory I have of Snow. Hmmm. On the norm we don't really have too many snow days here. Hmmm. It may be the time that me and my friend Leigh Ann played (for hours) in our backyard. We did take pictures that day...I'll have to see about fishing those out of storage.

Today was spent with friends throwing snowballs, sledding down hills, experiencing numb fingers(Beazer)/feet(Josh)/bum(me)/chin(me) and laughing.

Here are a few pictures of our fun day. Hope you enjoy!

Yea...that's me! I know you're jealous.

MASON'S MODIFIED SLED

MASON CATCHING SOME AIR...SLED STYLE

SNOWBALL FIGHT

No really...I'm OK!

Down Time...

My Hunka Hunka...Greg "Mr. Darcy"

For Starters!

Well...where do I begin. Let's start with Christmas Eve. Without warning, luckily waking up early on Christmas Eve I checked on Mama and I HAD to call the paramedics because she could not get her breath no matter what I did...I gave her back to back to back treatments, her Advair, tried her puffer (she couldn't even blow into that crazy thing) but nothing would help. She did end up at the hospital with a 3 night stay in the PICU (post intensive care unit) which the first 24 hours the doctors worked, to much success, to get her blood pressure stabilized...it was staying somewhere around 64/48 (scary low number). She was diagnosed with having severe pneumonia in her left lung and severe myalgia (which we are still battling). All in all she had a total 5 nights stay in the hospital which absolutely saved her life...again.

As you already have figured out she spent Christmas in the hospital but her spirits were good enough that it didn't bother her. She was really just concentrating on getting better. I made sure she had her Christmas stocking and some cute decorations for her room(s) and we took her gifts up to her room for her to open...it was nice.

I'll post more later...

Blessings,
Tammy

Late Post's A Coming!

I've been slooooooowww this month on posting ~ a lot going on in the Smith house :). Hopefully within the next month I'll be doing some major updates.

I hope everyone out there has a Happy New Year!

Blessings,
Tammy

Four Chrismases

We had a whirl wind of activities tonight. Christmas party, Birthday party, movie going... Don't you just love the holidays spent with friends and family.

Blessings,

Tammy

Some of my favorites off of our Christmas tree

This is a photo blog of sorts...I hope I don't bore you too much. :) Here are some of my favorite ornaments collected over the years. Each time I look at these ornaments it takes me back to the first time I seen them - lovely memories. *sigh*

Made by Mason in Dec. 2000

The first ornament I purchased during Mason's 1st Christmas

Celebrated at Disney: 2006

Made by Mason: December 2002

Made by Mason: Dec. 2000

Made by yours truly: 1977

Made by Mason: December 2000

Heirloom ornament from GG

Got to have our baseball fix in December

Jimmy D'Cricket (inside Farkle Family joke) Mason made the gingerbread man and the silver bell is from Greg's Aunt Kathy

This ornament is in Memory of Sassy from Cousin Traci

Russian ornaments from Greg

I LOVE PINEAPPLES!

This one matches our Christmas china pattern

Merry Christmas,

Tammy