Almost done......

Here are a few pictures of our basement. We still have to get the door on, finish up the stairs and do some wiring for the speakers and such but other than that it's pretty much done!

Basement

Well the basement is almost complete. Yesterday we had the carpet installed....it looks awesome! The only major things left are to get the door in and do some more wiring for the speakers and such, other than that it's pretty much done. I'll try and blog this weekend from my home computer so I can add some pictures.

Tonight I am going to another "crop" at our neighbors house. I enjoy the scrapbooking, the girl talk, the food, and of course the beverages. I find I'm much more creative after a couple of glasses of wine!

18 - 0 Go Pats!

Ok so New England is a little bit football crazy these days. How can you not be with a record of 18 - 0. Superbowl here we come!! We are the lucky folks who get to host the Superbowl party this year in the neighborhood. I am actually quite excited about it. Steve and I both already have the Monday afterwards booked off of work. Hopefully the basement will be done in time. It would be nice to keep the mess mainly confined to the basement. That's probably wishful thinking even if it is done.

The rest of the weekend was mainly about hockey, as most are. Owen's house league had their annual deep freeze tournament. We didn't do so hot....lost all three games. Saturday he had a travel game which they lost as well 7-4. Owen wasn't as upset as he usually is when they lose since he got 2 of the 4 goals and a few other nice shots on net. When he wasn't playing hockey he was either watching it on TV or playing it on the playstation. This kid is a die hard fan! Parker on the other hand isn't into it so much. He is at the intro mite level so there are no games. It is all instructional. He has his ice time every Friday evening and Sunday morning. He's actually a pretty good skater but he says he doesn't like it when they play games. Parker has always been the type that doesn't like crowds so for him to get in there and fight for the puck just isn't going to happen. This might be Parker's last year in organized hockey (I can't say that I'm too upset). He's thinking maybe tennis or golf will be his thing. Anything that isn't before 8:00am on the weekends is ok with me!

Delay

School has a 1 1/2 hour delay today due to the wintry mix and freezing rain. When my alarm went off this morning at 4:30am I looked out the window and all looked fine so I hauled my butt out of bed, got in the shower, got ready, and started the van to warm up. Just before I was going to leave I thought I would check the news to see how the roads were. Well, there were already tons of school delays including ours but I thought....hmmm Steve is home he can deal with that. Then I waited for the traffic report. Well apparently there was a tractor trailer going north on I-93 that flipped over, crossed the median and is blocking traffic going south on I-93 which is the route I take. That was enough for me to forget getting on the roads. So I started my coffee and flipped open the laptop to work at home. Some things are just not worth chancing.

Parker was afraid school would be cancelled today. He would have been very disappointed because his reading group is doing a piece on Martin Luther King Jr. over the morning announcements. He is so excited!

Keeping up with Annie

Ok...so I've fallen behind already....I'm sure no one is surprised. My friend Annie who faithfully blogs every day puts me to shame. Of course she was the one who inspired me to do this blog. I love logging in everyday and reading her daily schpeal (sp?). It makes me feel like we're really not that far away. And let me tell you I'm pretty disappointed on the rare day she doesn't post! So I guess I can't blame her for harassing me when I start to slack!

Last night the boys and I went to the LeBourveau's house for dinner (neighbors that we have become very close with). Poor Steve missed out because he was home staining trim for the room in the basement we are finishing. Laurie is a great cook! Her husband just started working in Vermont so he isn't home during the week. The good friend that I am ..... I've been eating all the cooking she's been doing. I'm going to be none too happy when I can't fit into my clothes anymore!

Snow Day!

The kids will be thrilled when they wake up this morning and find out it's a snowday. I am very fortunate that I can work from home on these days but I'll have to say it's difficult to be truly productive when the kids are home too. We are supposed to get 8 - 12 inches.....I really hope it is on the lower side.

Haircuts

Last night I took the boys to my hairdresser Heather for haircuts. In the past we have taken them to Supercuts, or whatever was convenient, but they have received some pretty bad ones....none of us have been enjoying the daily routine of chasing them with a spray bottle so I can try and hide the cow licks that the last hair dresser apparently thought would be a good idea to accentuate! The boys were very well behaved and cooperative (I guess the bribe to take them to McDonald's afterwards worked) and to all of our pleasure everyone was pleased with the cuts. The best part was she only charged the same price we were paying at the other places. We will definitely be heading back to Heather the next time!

Let's try this again......

We have been very bad bloggers.....I am hoping to rectify that but I am making no promises. I am NOT going to make an attempt at blogging about all of the events of the past 6 months or so. This is going to be a new beginning. So I suppose if I had been doing this all along I would be blogging about yesterdays events.....

Last night was Margarita night which is a weekly event we have in our neighborhood. It's a nice way to catch up with our neighbors and have a little adult time. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous the last few days. It is such a tease....we still have such a long winter ahead of us.....I hate winter!