Kitchen Sink

OK so this is kind of random but this is what I found in my kitchen sink a while back.

After I put the last glass in I realized that there was some symmetry. I thought it was kind of cool how that just happened.

Yesterday Jacob played in his first chess tournament yesterday for his school. It was a great day. Jacob won 2 matches, lost 2 matches, and had a bi on one. Pretty good for his first tournament. We were really excited for him and he had a great time. The tournament was for any elementary in the district and there were 13 schools who participated. This was the first year for his school to go. There were just over 400 kids there and 116 were from his school. Our school won the first place team trophy, it was awesome. I forgot my camera....ahhhhh. I had a friend take some pictures so I will post them when I get them. He woke up this morning saying he couldn't wait for next year.

OK one more thing this is a conversation Jacob and I had while he was getting ready for the tournament yesterday:

Me: "Jacob get clean underwear on."
Jacob: "OK but I have to wear my lucky underwear."
Me: "I didn't know you had lucky underwear."
Jacob: "I don't I'm just going to write lucky on my underwear today with a marker."
That kid cracks me up!

Let It Snow!

I started this post last weekend and then I got the stomach flu...it was horrible but I survived. So here a week late is my post.

Here in Arlington we were lucky to have almost a foot of snow on Thursday and Friday. For many this is no big deal, but here in Texas it is a BIG deal. Here are some pictures, you know I tend to post too many.

This was after school on Thursday. They cancelled school for Friday before we even left on Thursday.

Thankfully Kevin had bought me these rain boots earlier in the week they were great in the snow.

A real snow cone and a snow angel.

Some pictures of our yard and neighborhood.

Poor Jacob got the stomach flu first and was too sick to play in the snow on Friday and Saturday. We brought a chair out for him to watch Kevin build a snowman, he was sad that he was so sick. I knew he was really sick when he didn't want to play outside.

This is how he spent most of Friday and Saturday, notice the throw up pot, it was used a lot!

That is a ruler in our backyard on Friday morning, 10 inches of snow! Kevin and one of our neighbor kids built a snow fort, it lasted way after all of the other snow melted.

We loved it and wished we had that we had that more often around here. It is supposed to snow again on Tuesday. We love the snow!

Strep Throat

We're chillin' at home today. Jacob has strep but is feeling better. I was walking down the hallway yesterday at school and I see Jacob heading to the nurse with a pass. He didn't have a temperature but he felt so yucky. I took him to my room and had him lay down on a bean bag and he fell asleep right next to my desk, It was so cute, I wish I had taken a picture. We went to the doctor and he decided he did not want the shot so he opted for the pills that you have to chew and swallow. Ya, well he had one dose of that and threw it up. So I called the doctor and we went in this morning and he got a shot in the bum. I tried to convince him, I even bribed him in front of the doctor with ice cream to get the shot. I bet the doctor didn't like that very much but I knew the shot would be easier then nasty pills. Of course I was right. Anyway, I'm just glad my little guy is feeling better. So we are quarantined to the house today and tomorrow so I should be able to get a lot done, we'll see. I don't seem to be very motivated.