I asked for snow not sleet...

Well the Christmas stuff is gone from inside the house. After a week of rain and a little snow, I was finally able to get the boxes out of the shed to store the Christmas stuff. We might get a mix of sleet, snow tomorrow. Hoping it's mostly snow...a lot.... : D A girl can dream can't she?


Well I started this on Thursday but had writers block...ha. We got mostly sleet and ice on Friday.

 Jarin's car covered in ice

 walkway from porch

 beside garage

back deck

Oh well, Shirl, we're going to have to snow dance a little harder before our next chance of snow. I must have danced some wrong moves and got sleet instead...ha. I'll practice so I'll be ready for next time.

Lucy, I had to change the snowman background I had previously, for some reason it quit showing up (you didn't have anything to do with it did you?  ha ha :D). Got to enjoy my snowmen while I can, it will be spring before we know it. Maybe next time we can get the snow all the way to Paula, Jack and Mama... :D

Take care, 

Sheila

Welcome to 2013...

We are home from our Christmas trip. Cori and I anyway, Hubby has been back awhile and Jarin stayed a little longer. We are having a rainy day today, probably tomorrow and possibly all week. If it would just get cold enough to turn into snow I would be very happy... :-D

Hubby took down the outside decorations while I was gone and put them in the garage (not packed up, just in the garage), we'll probably handle them this weekend. I'll take the inside ones down, but not today. I want to enjoy the lights at least another day. I have to make a grocery run today.  Going to check and see if I can find a ornament box, and see if it will work with what I have. If not, no biggie, I'll just put them back in the cardboard box I had them in. Our other ornaments are in plastic containers, but we bought most of these our first Christmas here because we couldn't get to the ornaments in storage. Luckily we could get to the tree.

Now I'll leave you with a few pictures of the Grand-boys from Christmas at the in-laws.

One night Jarin and Cori actually slept in the same bed. First time in many years, mainly because Jarin had already went to bed and Cori just went and got in. They'd kill me if I showed the pictures I took, but I cropped one to show Rylie peeking out. Shhh, don't tell them...

Take care,

Sheila

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends!

 

Thought I'd share a few  of our indoor decorations...

A little bit of my Christmas rabbit couple

behind Smiley Snowman.

The grandsons at the in-laws.

 

Santa Claus was very good this year. If the rain and thunderstorms could have been snow instead, would have been perfect...ha.

Take care,
Sheila

Frosty the Snowman...

Okay, here is the link for the second installment of our ride through the lights.
http://youtu.be/WPyUA-YPgbs

 Thought I'd share a few pictures of our outside decorations...

 

The mailbox

front door with bells on the porch lights

View from the road

Outside tree with presents and snowman...

I love snowmen...

and snow. :-)

Our seesawing penguin and polar bear.

Close up of tree and presents.

There are bows on the tree, I'll

have to take a picture in the daylight so you

can see them.

 

Mr. Snowman

Penguin and Polar bear.

That's the big red bow behind the rocking chair,

it was on the front door last year.

Oh, what fun it is to ride....

Jarin and I went throught the Festiv@l of Lights the Monday after Thanksgiving. I had her video as we went through. I have been trying off and on since then to make a video I could post. I first worked to take off the sound. Once I accomplished that I added music. Wouldn't post, so I changed the type of file so it would be smaller, still wouldn't post. I split it up in clips by Christmas song, still to big. So this is what I have now, small clips without music. As I get more of them ready I'll post them...

It might be a good thing because to watch the whole video you would need a little Dramamine to prevent motion sickness. Someone was a little fast moving from one side to the other... I won't name any names (see beginning of post) but I was driving...ha. :-D

Jarin says I can make a y0utube account and link the video from there...I'm still thinking on that one.
(Ok, here's a link to the first video clip with music... http://youtu.be/ir12wHYdwgk)

My brother Ronnie has a blog now...check him out!

Hope you enjoy the first installment... Take care, Sheila

Everyone loves a parade...

Here are a few pictures I took of the Christmas parade in Mocksville. It was mostly antique cars and tractors. I wanted to go to a small town parade and I enjoyed it. Jarin went with me. Of course, they threw out lots of candy. I gave most of what I picked up to the little girls in front of me. This was on the 17th of November, I think they had it earlier this year for some reason. Santa was at the end, he was walking and stopped at the intersection and was quickly surrounded by children. So I didn't get a picture of him. I'm used to him being on a float or firetruck at the end. I saw some pictures, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, of the Mount Airy Christmas parade. I think I'll try to go to it next year. I didn't hear anything about it until afterward or I might have went this year. Jack I knew you'd enjoy these cars...I have a few more that I didn't post this time.

This was a guy on one of the bikes with a large front wheel.

He drove in circles, I'm assuming because he didn't have brakes.

The little Food Lion truck.

This looked like it should have been pulled by horses.

Yes, there were horses in the parade...

and a high school band and all such as that.

No shriners on go carts though...

Oh yeah, and Daniel Boone and his parents lived in

the area...

Happy December,
Sheila

Is that turkey I smell...

We survived Halloween and now we are a day away from Thanksgiving...

Here are a few pics of the Halloween decorations in the dark...

This pumpkin was on the floor under the cat above.

Mr. Skeleton Dracula...

Miss Witch and pumpkins...

 black cat

and my costume for the night....

spider headband

I also had scary stuff playing when I opened the door for the little trick or treaters.

Jarin and I went to the Christmas parade in Mocksville this past Saturday. I wanted to go to a small town Christmas parade. We have the Festival of Lights here, probably go to that next Monday or Tuesday. I'm hoping it won't be as crowded during the week as it is on the weekend. 

We also got our Christmas stuff put up outside last Sunday. We haven't turned it on yet, but at least it is done. 

Now we wait for tomorrow and the cooking and eating that goes along with it...

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

How about that, I managed to mention Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas in one blog post... :-)

Take care,

Sheila