To the Moon

I was going to post about our lazy Super bowl Sunday, but tonight the moon was so amazing I couldn't help but share.  We set up the telescope and took turns marveling.  Tonight we could see what looked like heat waves around the moon surface.  Not sure they are true heat waves, but we are certainly going to do some research.  The craters were especially defined this evening.  Our universe is so amazing.

Here is how we saw the moon tonight.  I do not have the technology to take this picture, so I found this picture at PublicDomainPicture.net. 


Amazing.
Thanks for the telescope Granny and Poppy!

Friends

I love when we have company.  We have the pleasure of having some dear friends staying with the boys for tonight.  Here is what I came upon after dinner was over and all 5 boys had finished their homework:

Puzzles?  Really?  I couldn't believe it.  What a great sight.  Friends are wonderful.

Storm's Moving In

Have you noticed that about this time of year all I blog about is either wrestling or the weather?

Today is the weather.  Apparently we were set to get a big storm.  The morning started at around 10 degrees, cloud cover and little wind.  After school, 33 degrees, high winds, and snow/sleet.  Yucky roads, stinging sleet to the face, slippery walkways.  Gotta love February. 
Ellis and Avery ask me daily when we are going to move to Missouri.  They are tired of the weather too.  My answer is always that we would have moved yesterday if we could.  Yesterday will come some day. 

Wrestling report:  None.  No tourneys for Isaak.  High school state this weekend.

Here is a couple of random photo I found from Christmas.  Christmas day aftermath.  Kinda a reflection of how my mind is working most days lately.  Like something threw up all over and then decided to put it in a whirl wind. 
Enjoy.

Havin' a Heat Wave

Whew.  We are having a heat wave.  It was a balmy 10 degrees on my way home from school today.  Yes, 10 degrees ABOVE zero. 
If I had not said so before, the past week or so it has been negative temperatures daily.  Saturday is was a whopping -27!  Yes,  -27. 

Looking at this picture, you wouldn't think that it was so dang cold would you?  Well, I took this (very quickly) in the school parking lot last week after school.  It was -15 that day. 

It is nice to see the sun, even if it SO cold.  We are gaining light and it is just starting to become noticeable.  The sun is starting to even feel warm when it hits you.  It really isn't warm enough to make a lick of a difference, but in my mind, the warm sun gives me hope. 

See the sun on the mountain and the parking lot signs?  The sun is still up when I leave school at 4:30 or so.  Sadly, this is exciting for me. 

Today, the clouds came in and provided a nice low blanket to keep the "heat" in.  Ha, heat.  That makes me giggle it is so ridiculous.  Heat.  But this is why we have the warmer temperature.  Yippee, Spring is on its way.  We just have to make it through February and March and most of April. 

Wait, my yippee has just turned to a sigh. 

Anyone up for a three month trip to Hawaii?

Sleepy

Sometimes a girl just needs a headband and a kangaroo to have a good night sleep.

Wrestling Begins

I know that I committed myself to blogging daily with the new year.  I also know that I have had a rough patch with a nasty virus, and that I have 4 kids, and that I work full time again, and that, and that, and that...blah, blah, blah.

Thanks for listening, I feel better. 

Today, Isaak wrestled his first varsity tournament.  He is a 6th grader amongst 7th and 8th graders.  It was a great experience.  He was handed his hinney on a platter, but he hung in there and wrestled tough. He came away with a new level of desire to step up his game. 

I want arm muscles like Isaak.  Think I'll have to start wrestling to get them?  Isaak is in the red/white singlet.

This picture just proves that yoga is a necessary practice in all sports.  

Peek-a-boo. 

Gotta love wrestling tournaments.  You know how in all sporting events, the spectators are always yelling and shouting out plays or strong suggestions as to what the sport players should be doing?  Wrestling is the same.  It makes me giggle.  I am surrounded by terms like, "Head, head, head!" or "Circle around.  Cross face!"  Perhaps some, "Leg and arm. Come on, leg and arm!"  I do not understand most of this.  I don't really want to understand it either.  I figure that Brad and the other crazed spectators will provide enough spouting of instructions, that I will be excused from participating. 

Well, my bleacher butt has just begun.  With Isaak starting wrestling in January now, and club wrestling starting when middle school season ends, my bleacher butt will just expand over the next 3 months.  Good times, good times.

Random Acts of Observations

1.  At 5:30 this evening, it was still light enough to see into the woods outside the house.  We are actually gaining light.

2.  When you put many inches of snow on a road, then bring in negative temperatures for two weeks, then add high winds you get a sheet of ice to drive on with random snow drifts.  Makes driving interesting.

3.  When I came down with the nasty virus that the rest of the family had already experienced, I spent every evening last week after work sleeping on the couch and most of this weekend doing the same.  The kids started to worry.  One even poked me once and asked if I was ok because he needed a drink of water.

4.  I actually slept until NOON today.  I was shocked.  I am feeling better today. 

5.  I am thankful for NyQuil and ibuprofen.  They have compromised the majority of my diet lately.

6.  I have alot of laundry and dishes to catch up on.

7.  I am thankful for yoga pants and baggy sweatshirts.

8.  I am looking forward to Spring.

9.  I am looking forward to Spring.

10.  It is only January.

Sigh....