facebook killed the blogger star

you might remember the song - video killed the radio star - well, i am writing a new version of that song for the new millennium - facebook killed the blogger star -. facebook has taken on a life of its own. serious bloggers blog regularly. really well-organized bloggers can facebook and blog regularly. and then there is me. i love blogging but facebook is faster for those of us who are time-management challenged. i have a love-hate relationship with facebook. i love it because i can quickly throw out a story, thought, or question and get almost immediate feedback, keep in touch with current and long lost friends and relatives, and post interesting pics of our hum-drum family happenings. i hate facebook because it is no longer the social network that is was originally. now you have to keep up with everyone's farms, mafias, fish, cafes, etc., REPEATED business fan page requests, spam friend requests, and most of all ----my inability to tell the world my stories in a single status update!!!!

whether or not you have missed my blogs is irrelevant. if you don't like them...don't read them. if you do...visit often and i may or may not have updated (and i thank you for stopping by). so, with that said...the blogger star is no longer dead. i am committed to blogging again. maybe not as regularly as before, but regardless...i am back!
stay tuned for my update post----NOVEMBER thru MARCH----yikes!! might take me a while.

bye bye baby mullet #3

cutting the baby mullets is one of the saddest days in parenting for me. awww. their first haircut! it kinda takes them from baby to a little person. thank goodness for hair doodles because i wouldn't go near that squirmy little head with a pair of scissors. sam and fu i don't mind cutting but ollie---no way! any who.... here goes.

side mullet view
back view

first snip---awww :-(

look at my big boy!

ta-da---ollie and his new 'do

a very bittersweet day. i took my last baby in for his baby mullet removal

snow day

anticipation caused us to cancel a beach trip. thank goodness it all worked out.
snow=cold. white. beautiful. laughter. smiles. fun. excitement!
it was a perfect weekend. quite a surprise for those of us down south. this is certainly not something we get to experience that frequently. the last time we had snow like this was when sam was just a few months old!
my mom and i made a quick trip to the store for the stuff to make us some chili...yum. it was flurrying and beginning to stick. when we came out the parking lot was covered! i couldn't wait to get home to see my boys play in it! we all stayed up late and drank hot chocolate and watched the opening ceremony of the winter olympics. we even camped out in the den and watched the snow fall all night.
it was such a nice treat for the boys to wake up to a yard covered in white. we spent the whole day playing outside. i just loved it!!!

carson and ollie watchin' the friday flurries

flurries starting to stick

making snowballs with accumulation from the yard toys

ollie...not so impressed

reminds me of narnia

fu and carson make snow angels

narnia in the day time

snow buddies

ollie...still not impressed

dixie on a jaunt

linus taking a trek

my snow-woman

shan taking fu on a ride down the hill in the backyard

fu takin' a trip

now sam's turn

redneck sighting #1- fu going down on a trash can lid

redneck sighting#2- sheet vinyl for a sled we nicknamed it the "mcsled"

redneck sighting #3- that's right...you got it...grocery bags for snow boots!

and i head downhill for a quick run on the mcsled