c.c.c.c.c.cold outside!

OK.. I have to admit  its stinking cold outside!  I just took this picture on my porch this morning.  thats the overnight temp... out of the wind on my enclosed porch..  Yesterday afternoon it was warmer when the sun was shinning through, it made it up to 3 below out there!     

I didnt go to work yesterday, though not because of the weather, because Lyndonville has been very lucky not to get the snow... only a few miles south of us had the full fledged blizzard conditions.    Anyway, I stayed home because I just didnt feel well.. I still dont and while I was contemplating staying home again today, which I would really like to do, I remember a couple things that need to happen today at work.. so Im going in.  Im not sure I'll stay all day.. (I say that, but once Im there I probably will stay.)  

Yesterday I did pretty much nothing.  just tried to stay warm and cozy.  I attempted to play at my craft table for a bit in the afternoon, but had a head ache and what I started wasnt turning out like I wanted it too.. Plus.. these two fuzzy wuzzys kept getting in my way.  they really just wanted to curl up some place warm with me.. so we pretty much stayed on the couch with magazines and an afghan.all day.

I did make this coffee cake yesterday morning.. which I proceded to eat almost half of!  Hubby had a little piece and I'm pretty much finishing it this morning!    but I did lose 3 pounds this week!  god only knows how I did that!  but I'll take it!

my tootsies are frrrreeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzingggggggggg!

so Im going to go get myself together to go to work...

I hope my car starts....

This weather is brutal....  however.. its supposed to warm up to almost 50 over the weekend...  craziness.. but I'll take it!

going to take some tylenol and make another cup of tea.. 

toodles and happy day

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a little edit here...
sooo duh!  
I obviously can not read a thermometer..
I was reading the Celsius side and not the Fahrenheit side.  so it is not negative 8 on my porch.. and yesterday it was not negative 3!   eiy yie yie... my husband told me I was wrong yesterday  and I told him.. "whatever.. Im right".   He didnt tell my why I was wrong... If he would have pointed out to me that I was reading the wrong side, I would not have been so hard headed about it..   oh well..  
lets just not tell him he was right.  He knows he was right.. but Im just going to forget about it!
lol!
(I just sneezed 9 times in a row... thought you might like to know that! lol)

down on the farm

 While straightening up the grandpies toys on the front porch yesterday morning, I got caught up in the moment and had to play!  just long enough to take a couple pictures and then I put everything away.  but it was fun while it lasted!

last night I crafted for a little bit, but really wasnt feeling so great so I ended up on the couch and probably was asleep by 9:30!  stilll not feeling so great this morning, but I have somethings that I have to do at work today, so I'll be heading out there shortly.  not sure if I'll stay all day or not though.

Found the idea for this little garland on pinterest... soo simple and it really is cute.  This isnt a very good picture.  I'll take a better one when I put it up next weekend.. where ever i end up putting it!  

we're supposed to get some nasty weather with some bitter wind chills dipping to 20 and 30 below zero!!  I know that some of  you are supposed to get windchills as low as 50 below.  thats brutal..  

I hope everyone stays warm and cozy..   Like Kim K.. I'm just praying we dont lose power.  Ive been listening to that wind blow outside this morning and I have to admit it makes me nervous.   not to mention that we did have a little flickr of lights a while ago.   

OK.. time for one last cup of tea, some tylenol and then Ive got to get going.

toodles girlfriends

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sunday morning .. valentines on the brain!

been pinning valentines on pinterest all morning..   still have christmas out.. but with in the next week the valentines decor will come out.  

I got over inspired on pinterest.. now I have to make something.. just not sure what!  heres a link to my valentine board.  

http://www.pinterest.com/viviann/valentines/

theres are sooooo many  ideas! 

so, Im off to clean up my craft room... just a little bit.. enough to make some work space.. and then Im playing.    

not feeling 100%  somethings brewing Im afraid.. but for right now.. I can stay warm, drink tea and pretty much ignore it.  

the tree in the pic above is mine from last year or the year before.. I found people had pinned it on pinterest.  oh goodie!  I get to inspire people too!  

happy sunday!

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snowy blowy wintery day!

 Baby its cold outside!!!!  

and I'm looking out the window wondering if I can just plow my car through all that snow or if Im going to get stuck in my driveway.. or worse yet, if I'm going to have to actually shovel!    none of the above sounds like fun.  

 But these were good!  I had a few way too soft bananas and a handful of blueberries!  so I made some nice hot muffins.. the only problem with them... is that they were sooooooooo  yummy and hot... that I ate... THREE of them!  oink oink!!  not a good way to start out the biggest loser contest with all my family!  ok ok.. back on track.. hopefully tony will come home from work adn eat the rest of them! LOL!  he can afford to pig out.. the man is a stick figure.

OH.. the reason why I stopped in.. the winner for my elf challenge.. is Pam from virginia retro!  send me your address pam.

OK OK.. I have 20 minutes to get ready and out of here for work... and I truly will probably get stuck in my driveway.... 

happy Friday!

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the first day of 2014

 Im starting out the new year playing and drinking tea!  Can you believe Frannie pants fits in that cloche?  yeah, no, dont believe it.  I would never put her in there, but it is a pretty PUrrfect picture and great timing that she sat there and it looks like shes in the cloch! lol!   Im so easily amused!

so here we are in 2014..  

I went back through the year on my blog... I like my blog.  I like seeing all the pictures and reading about my days!  What I found this morning about the past year was that it was a good year.  we had a wedding, a new baby, and recently a Christmas engagement! Weve also had an annoucement a couple months ago that we have another grandpie on the way for this coming summer!   we had birthday parties, showers, beach days and summer breezes!  weekends at my aunts cottage, weekends spent with friends here and there.  A family reunion with lots of crazy relatives,   lots of days spent with my precious precious baby pies,  lots of  holidays, lots of fun decorating and creating,  33 pounds lost,

(umm and then 33 pounds found!)    

the only low and very sad point was that Rob and tiffany lost a precious baby last april, Nathaniel...  She was about 4 months along.   That was a very difficult time for them, for all of us, and I think none of us knew how to deal with it.  so we stumbled through it.. thank God for their faith and the way the lord got them through it.. and Thank God for the new life growing in her now.  

Really.. unless Ive forgotten something and didnt blog about it, I cant think of any other bad thing that happen.  Weve all been blessed with decent health, homes, jobs, enough money to sustain us, and abundant love.  I look forward to a new year!  a new baby, planning a wedding with my daughter Bethany, enjoying my violet, marla and torry pies...more beach days and more holidays.. more creating... and more weight loss! (LOL!)  

and so much more!  

so heres to 2014.. I'm glad I get to enjoy it here with all my bloggy pies!! 

love to you all!

Happy new Year!!  

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