The "Finnster, et al."

Well, the boys were out again for snow on both Thursday and Friday.  However, this time it was the good powdery stuff. We were excited to take the boys out to play since our last snow was mostly ice. Sam was pretty bummed about having to wear overalls - the horror! I thought he looked quite precious. The first thing Finn did upon going outside was plop down and make a snow angel. The second thing that he did was complain about how cold his hands were. We only had those little wool gloves that will eventually absorb water/snow.  Unfortunately we were pretty ill prepared in the hand warming department.  During the last snow I checked for gloves, but they were all sold out. Needless to say, we didn't stay out for too long.  After losing all feeling in his hands, Finn decided that he couldn't take it anymore so we all went back inside for hot chocolate. Here is a great picture of Finn providing a perfect demonstrative of how miserable his hands felt....

Just a few pictures of the boys reading their new books. On Saturday Me, Finn, Sam, Michael and Uncle David went up to the main campus for Summer Camp Registration.  We met Finn's best friend Jack and him mom and little there too.  The event was pretty fun.  The boys got their faces painted and they bounced around in huge bouncy houses for an hour.  Sam faced his fears of bouncy houses and jumped a little too. Next Shelley (Jack's mom) and I took the boys across the street eat at McDonald.  Jack and Finn sat at their own table and took many, many pictures of themselves.  Here are a few. On Sunday the boys and I went to Gran's for Aunt Sharon's baby shower.  It was the best decorated baby shower I have ever been to.  It was a "woodland" themed shower.

Well the boys went back to school on Monday.  Somewhere the Hallelujah Chorus is playing.  Man I was pumped.  I had an entire weeks worth of work to catch up on and I was rip, roarin', and ready to tackle it.  Then I got this picture from Ms. Cindy at the boy's school. So pitiful.  Ms. Cindy told me that Sam was running a fever of 102 and must be picked up.  WHAT!  My sweet, precious, youngest child, whom I love dearly couldn't give me one lousy day back in the working world before he decided to turn all sick and pitiful.  It was a good thing that Ms. Cindy sent me that picture, because if she hadn't, I would've had a right mind to just leave him there.  But oh that picture was just heartbreaking. He was even more heartbreaking in person.  I walked in the building and immediately heard his desperate cry. He cried even harder when he saw me.   Once we got home Sam wouldn't leave my side.  I sat in the glider and r...

On Sunday I met a few of my closest friends from my small group at Long Hollow for "Momentum."  It is a women's conference hosted at our church for women all over middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky.  We were busting at the seams - both in the building and in the parking lot.  It was quite an incredible and inspiring sight. The event was MC'ed by Holly Thompson.  The opening speaker was Lisa Harper and the main speaker was Chris Caine.  I really liked Lisa Harper, but Chris Caine was awesome. Elena, Amanda and I before the night got underway. Amanda, Audra, me and Elena at the end of the evening.  Our friend Anna was there too, but left before we took the picture.  Our friend Audra also spoke on the panel. On Saturday Michael took Finn out for a special father/son night.  This left me and Sam to slum around together.  Since I had been stuck in the house all week I decided that Sam and I would go to the post office and the groce...

Well, as we all know it has been a week of snow.   Finn, Sam and I have had ALOT of time together.  I think that we spent much of the week suffering from cabin fever as we didn't leave the house. The boys spent the night with Gran on Sunday night. Michael went to pick them up on Monday. Well, when he turned the car on his back windshield exploded and glass went everywhere.  Uncle James came to save the day by bring his big truck to the house.  He picked up Michael and then they went to get the boys. On Tuesday we took the boys out in the snow.  Sam decided that he did not want to wear gloves.  It took about 30 seconds before he started begging for my gloves. Finn with his ice weapons.  Finn spent most of his playtime de-icying all of the structures in the yard. On Thursday Finn spent the day with his friend Jack.  Finn hasn't really ever done this before, so it was kind of strange putting Finn in someone else's car and watchin...

At 5:00 a.m. on Saturday my alarm went off and I started getting ready for the Hot Chocolate 15K.  Around this time in the morning the temperature was in the "teens" so it took a while to get properly dressed.  On top I wore an undershirt, a running shirt, a goose down vest, a neck warmer, gloves under my thumb holes, an ear wrap, and sunglasses (to keep the wind off of my contacts).  On bottom I wore tall sock, my running pants and leg warmers.  Despite all the clothing, I was still had great mobility. I met Grandad and Gigi downstairs at 5:45 and we took off for Nashville.  We met Emily at French Landing (an office complex off of Rosa Parks Blvd where I use to have hearings).  Em and I both hopped in the car with Grandad and Gigi and we headed for the Bicentennial Mall. Gigi dropped us off at the Rite Aid next to the Farmer's Market and we took a picture.  After that we started getting all geared up. Here we are at Corral C.  Somehow ...