He knows me!

Here is a little story about the BEST HUSBAND IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!
We had talked about getting some kind of organization system for the wall ie. calendar, white board, or bulletin board, something so everything was together! I had a calendar up with a little thumb tack but every time Rob walked by the calendar fell from his breeze! So we needed something. One day Rob was at Target and sent me a picture (see below) and asked what I thought of that idea. "GREAT! Perfect, if you like I'm good with it," I told him.
When he came home he showed me the calendar and then he pulled out a pack of colored white board markers, he said, "I just knew you would need these too. Right?" With a cute "did I do the right thing" look on his face. I had tears of joy, a big smile, and fall in love with him all over again!
HE KNOWS ME!! I LOVE COLORED MARKERS!!
So here it is our new calendar with colored markers, just look how fun the color is!!!
Thanks Love! YOU ROCK!

The Morning After

Just as we thought, the snow went no where. It was waiting for us the next morning. We had decided to have a sleepover at Mom's house on Wednesday night. So again after breakfast we walked about and started shoveling! It was SO MUCH FUN! We really had a great time.
You can see from the pictures below where we had left off and what had come down again.
Those are the chairs we sit in to roast marshmallows!!!


We started by breaking up the snow a little to let the sun do some work! Then we took a break and went sledding!!!


After the sun baking!

We took a little drive to see what the world around us looked like before going home. It sure does look beautiful.

That rock above is Maryland, we are driving over the Potomac River at Point of Rocks, just 1 mile from our place.

Over all we think it was about 18 inches in a 12 hour period. Sure is beautiful but WOW what a lot of work. Nice to be in good company!

Shoveling in a BIRTHDAY!!

We woke up on the morning of January 26th, Rob's birthday, at 7:30 to see that it was already snowing! The forecast called for between 15 to 18 inches that day and so the shoveling began. No time like the present to get shoveling!! We downed some coffee, Rob shoveled off our deck, then we bundled up and headed to Mom's to shovel her drive after.



A hour and a half later we were finished and went home for a birthday breakfast!!!

The snow had slowed down a bit so it was a great time to make the birthday boy his cake! It was exciting to make my first German Chocolate Cake.


FINISHED!!!

The snow had started again. Around 4:30 we decided we need to head back to Mom's because it was SNOWING again. We packed up the cake, ice cream, and supper and were on our way.
We arrived at Mom's and found that there was more snow than we thought. The Lord sent along 3 young boys who helped us SO MUCH! They were having a great time in the snow, building walls for people to drive around, you know just having fun! If it wasn't for them we would have shoveled for at least 2 more hours. Finally, around 6:30p we went inside they the boys went home. We were ALL completely wet. Rob and I threw our clothes in the dry and heated up the Sweet & Sour Chicken.

After we eat we suited up again and continued shoveling. As we went out we found it had snowed at least 2 1/2 inches in the 2 hours inside.


At 10:00pm, Mom stepped out to see how we were doing. We decided it was time for cake and ice cream!
He makes birthday's look WONDERFUL!!

It really was a so much fun to spend the day with Rob outside. I must confuse that he wanted to continue shoveling but my body couldn't move. He definitely out did me!! I thought it could wait for tomorrow.....and it did. The snow continued and was there in the morning.

PA Farm Show- Jan 13 & 14th

On the morning of the 13th of January I was driving into to Leesburg to sub at a local Middle School and Rob called. He had just landed in New York and he asked if I wanted to meet him that night in Harrisburg, PA for the PA Farm Show. I was SO EXCITED! He had been gone since the 2nd (not the longest we had been apart but any time I can see him, I'm there!) so I was so glad to see him again.
At school I made a list of things to do when I arrived home, what to throw in a bag, turn the dishwasher on, you know all that "house stuff"! I left school in a mad dash for home then PA.Rob took the train and I drove Truckie! The drive was very easy and I arrived into Harrisburg just in time to get him from the train and then off we went for the evening at the Farm Show!
Thursday night we saw the work horse teams going through an obstacle course.


Views from our hotel room in Harrisburg, it was very beautiful. (I liked the church.)
Friday morning the first stop was watching a Tractor Square Dance! That was amazing. Apparently I was pretty nervous because later Rob told me I was squeezing his arm pretty hard, I thought the tractors were doing to run into each other!

Then it was all the animals. We had SO much fun.
This chicken made noises that sounded like a laugh to me, if I took like this I hope I could laugh too.


Patrolling for poo!
Miniature goats- so cute!



This is the part we find most interesting....the judging of the animals. Here we are watching dairy cows.
This was for the Grand Champion Milk Cow. So all of the Champions of the different breeds came together to pick the overall champion.

Grand Champion: the Holstein.

The Celebrity Milking Content was the next event.

I was thinking of all the ICE CREAM these cows could contribute to!!

Such a cutie!!!

Mussels In Brussels!!

Hello from Brussels! This bowl of mussels was even better than they look. As you can see by the spot on my shirt, I'm already wearing them. What a treat!

Here is one of my favorite restaurants in all of Belgium. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Perfect for those of us that are hungry and wide awake at 2:30am. The menu is simple. Rotisserie chicken. That's it. "Kip on a Spit" is what they call it in Flemish. And it is G O O D good! Never had better. This little restaurant is located in a small town up on the English Channel (Belgian side of course) called Oostende. It had been 6 years since last I was there. Nothing has changed. Least of all the "Kook Kook"!