January In One Post

Hang on to your hats ladies and gentlemen, cause here we go...

January at a Glance...

The first part of January, we spent hanging out at home since it was still part of the kids' school vacation. It was nice to sleep in and enjoy them.  

A week after Tyson went back to school, (because Taryn's school would not start till mid February), I was getting ready for the Jack and Jules sale.  Let's just say I put in a lot of stuff and sold it all but 10 items.  I made over 200.00 and was delighted.  I made enough that each of the kids will get 100.00 for their summer clothes and shoes.  Which is the whole reason why I do the sales.  It is a lot of work, but well worth it.

MONSTER JAM

Vaughn and I have wanted to do something special for both kids.  Tyson's surprise came in January with a trip to the Monster Jam.  We didn't tell him where he was going, just that he was going for a ride with dad.  When they got to the Monster Jam, he was so excited.  See the picture above.

He loved it!  Vaughn said it was so fun to watch Tyson's face light up as the trucks revved up their engines.  It was fun to do something like that for Tyson.

                                                            SNOW DAYS

Then came the snow days.  And yes I said days.  On Tuesday of this particular week, Vaughn and I went to Nashville to take care of a few things and left the kids with one of my Young Women, who has graduated high school. It was a quick go down, and come back.  Becca only had to watch Taryn for the day and then Tyson for a little while when he got home from school.  Piece of cake.  Yeah, right!  While we were in Nashville it started to snow, and it came down so fast that they let school out early.  I let Becca know that Tyson would be home early and left it at that.  Long story short...Tyson's bus got stuck in the parking lot for an hour and then it took another hour to get him home.  By this time I was freaking out, and so was my babysitter.  I couldn't get the school to pick up their phones and so I had no idea where my kid was.  I was in Nashville and couldn't do anything about it.  I felt so helpless.  When Becca called, after what seemed like an eternity, and told me Tyson had made it home, I was so relieved.  Vaughn and I finished up our business and headed home, only to hit bad roads an hour out of Knoxville.  It was kind if fun to drive in real snow again.  Loved it.  And all this made for a snow day for the kids the next day.

We took the kids sledding.  We found this killer hill just up the street.  It was quite steep and we all got our exercise going up and down the hill, but it was so much fun.

Here goes Tyson.

He made it down and Bear chased him the whole way.

Here comes Vaughn.  Needless to say this was the only run he made.  He hurt his bottom at the end.

Bear was in heaven.  We took him off his leash, since there was no one around, and let him run.  He loved it!

Back up the hill...

There she goes, down the hill as fast as she can with Bear chasing her.

Taryn loved sledding.  

We played for hours, until our legs gave out from going up and down the hill.  It was to the truck to make some donuts in the parking lot and home for hot chocolate and warm blankets.  

BEAR'S GROWTH

This is Bear's favorite place to be.  He loves to wrap himself up in the bottom of our bedspread.  He has grown twice his size since we got him.

CHEESECAKE FACTORY

All I can say is yummy!  This was so good.  I had a lunch date with some of the ladies, and we all had different cheesecakes and tried each one.  They were all delicious.  

And this picture sums up January. Bear sleeps like this most nights.  We go to sleep laughing. January was crazy and fun and a great start to 2014.