2008-Mid January

This is truly the most boring time of year and again I took no pictures, but do scroll and see the old photo's.

I left off last week with getting called in to work on Sunday, as it turned out I worked 12 hours all week until Thursday and got off at 9 then, but had to work on Friday which was my OFF Friday. Chris is in an outage also and has not had an off day in about 10 days so I tried to not complain too much. I guess its a good thing everyone in the house can cook enough to survive, lol. I did cook some at night for the next night. When I get home at 8 everyone has eat. Pat did cook fish one night for the boys. The boys did not work out as much this week but they did go a couple days and of course on Wednesdays they have that extra workout at school. I still have not got into a routine on exercise, but I have gotten a couple more dvd's that look like they will be more my style, so I am hoping that this week I will get started. Life should be in a normal routine. I just can't do it when I work 12's. I have been extra nice to myself this weekend, since I worked so much last week. There is really not much to tell about the week other than everyone has been doing what they should. It has been cold her this week and Pat has done some extra stuff in the house, which is always nice.

Friday I was cold all day and I made a huge pot of chili when I got home, its really not too bad on carbs if you do not use corn chips or crackers or noodles lol. I used lots of burger and man it hit the spot. I did boil some cabbage as well and found out chilli over cabbage is good. Kyle wanted to go out Friday night but Chris told him no because of the weather. He had a couple friends that came over to visit a bit and that seemed to work out fine. Saturday I was looking forward to sleeping in so I skipped the early walmart run. I woke at 7 to the phone ringing lol it was Mom asking about snow. I got up and looked and we did have snow very little but snow. I did not even take a picture. I went back to bed could not go to sleep so I got up and woke Blake so he could see the snow and go to Walmart. Blake was real excited about the snow he threw a few snow balls and woke Kyle, I think he really wanted to throw a snowball at Kyle. As we drove to Walmart I thought dang I should have took a picture. When we got back home it was too late to take a picture. Saturday we mostly chilled and tried to stay warm. Kyle did get to go out Saturday night. Blake started working on a puzzle, which I intended to help him with, but got tied up working with my scanner trying to scan some pictures. Guess what my new laptop with Windows Vista is not compatible with my scanner and probably not my printer either. Oh well I just used a jump drive to move the pictures I scanned from my older laptop to my new one. I stayed cold all day Saturday, I put on extra socks, then a jacket got a bigger blanket when sitting in recliner and still cold so I got the heat pad out and stuck it under the blanket and man that was the very dinktem.

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THis is Mamaw and Papaw Grace when they were dating I think. I am sure if you ever knew Mamaw Grace you thought of her when I said "the very dintem." If you don't know what a dinktem is ask someone to tell ya. I bet all my siblings know what a dinktem is and probably Tracy, Chris, Brandon and Dustin.

This is the only picture I have of Papaw Hand and I know none of the kids remember him. He died when Tracy was not even 7 months old. I remember going to Mamaw Hands and we forgot the diaper bag, lol we went to a store in Sumiton and bout pampers (we used cloth diapers back then) and a bottle. She wanted this lil blue change purse on a keyring at the checkout counter so I got that for her to play with and she took her 1st steps to me dangling it at her.

This is me and Randy and Ronny with our snowman, this was taken at the house we lived in before Mom and Dad built the house they live in now. I am thinking this would have been the winter before we moved to the house. Yes thats a diaper on my head.