I don't know really know why myself so I have no excuses (see there's a good title) and really no good reason (another good one) for not posting in so long.
So how about if I just start fresh and dive right in?
We had a wonderful holiday season, it was just Paul and I and the kids around here and we celebrated the season in the best way possible, just spending time relaxing and enjoying some family time.
We spent last weekend celebrating SeaBass's 9th birthday.
When I was pregnant with SeaBass I took a Lamaze class, there were only four couples in the class and we all ended up having our kids very close together. Three of those couples seemed to really connect and our kids even go to the same school.
You all know of Deb and her daughter Layne who is only 5 days older than SeaBass, and then there is Wendy and her family, there son is only one day older than SeaBass. Wendy teaches my kids piano and works out with me in boot camp classes. The third I see around town now and again and we always stop and catch up when see each other.
Wendy came up with the idea of a joint party at the tube park up at one of the local ski hills. Since the kids all go to school together their guests lists overlapped quite a bit. It made the party a great time and a more economical for everyone as well. They keep a couple of fire pits going at the base of the tube run so you can warm up when you get chilly and the kids had hot dogs and Smores instead of birthday cake.
I was talking on the phone last night with Mom about the crazy weather in CA right now. We have a crazy weather here as well. Ours has been on the other end of the spectrum, we are unseasonably warm.
Aunt Patricia requested some snow pictures and I can't provide you with any right now. We had snow for a little while but has all melted away with the hot spell we are having. Today we are sitting +4C (39F), last Friday if was +13C up at our house (55F), I just peeked at the thermometer and it has popped up to +9C (48F) since I took that picture an hour ago! I have been wearing sweatshirts to work and my winter coat has been put away for two weeks now. I am sure it will get cold again and I am hoping for some snow. I never thought we would in a situation here that I would consider asking California for water!
I will leave you with a couple of pictures of the back yard:
You can see the sun glaring off a bit of ice on the back lawn and bit a snow in the shady spot, but that's about it. (Oh yes and my finger in the picture too! Don't say I never post any pictures of me on here.)
4 comments:
Some of the ski resorts around Tahoe have had 75" of snow recently. Mike and Sandi have it today and I think they are at the 2,000 ft elevation or so.
Now if they manage the water we have correctly we will be okay.
But Southern California is getting tons more water than we are. But we ship our water down there. Why don't they build some reservoirs instead of draining our resources?
Oh yeah, they don't have to because the governor is usually from So Cal.
I had no idea that you guys were having such a warm winter.
I'm so shocked to see so little snow! Like mom said, the Tahoe area is measuring in feet they have so much.
Yahooo! Your alive!!!!!
Sebastian is 9! Holy cow, where'd the time go?
You tried to do the snow pictures. I see that little patch of white in the corner. Thanks!
Day before yesterday we had snow on Diablo again. Very, very strange weather we're having.
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