Happy Valentine's Day!

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, and let me just say that we all had a great Valentine's weekend together! Jon was off and we literally just hung around the house... together... the 4 of us... it was nice. We cleaned, cooked, cleaned some more, folded laundry, and watched movies. We watched a little of a PBS special on "Victor Borge: 100 years of music." It was really funny. One part that the kids watched with us was his skit on Phonetic Punctuation... it was a hoot! The best part was the way Riley came downstairs on Valentine's morning and said, "Happy Valentine's Day, whoosh pop!" You'd have to look up the piece by Victor Borge to understand the comedy in this! Here, I've helped you, just click HERE to watch it on YouTube.com. I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day weekend!

Riley and I made her Valentine cards for school. She worked really hard on them! We were so pleased with the way they turned out.

Since Payton had 'store bought' Valentine cards, I decided to "spruce" up his snack that he was taking for his basketball game on Saturday. I really am starting to think that I have some sort of 'creativity disease'!!!!! Aren't these just the cutest granola bars you've ever seen?

More Snow Fun

Last weekend when we were having "snow" much fun, our neighbors came over on their snowmobile and added to the excitement.

Payton LOVES his Legos!

Legos, Legos, Legos... That is what Payton is truly loving these days! He got a new HUGE set for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa T. and Uncle Joe and he is in LOVE! He also just very recently saw a commercial for a new Lego set that is coming out... Toy Story! He was very happy to request a few of those for his birthday. Another fun Payton and Lego fact: he wants to have 4 arms and be able to put Legos together like the little friendly alien in the movie "Aliens in the Attic"!!!!!

We are loving iChat!

I'm sure most of the world has experienced the greatness of webcams and live video chats before, but for us, last night was our first time! Jon's brother Jim just got a new iMac computer (go Apple!) and we figured out how to speak using the video feature in iChat! This was tons of fun! Jon, Payton and I had a blast (Riley was playing at the neighbors house) and can't wait for the kids to use it and talk to their kids.... speaking with and seeing cousins 2 states away... for free.... and live/real time! How cool is this???

This is a picture of our first "chat" and I just had to take a picture of it! You can see Jon and I in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and of course Jim in the larger box.

The storm is over... now it's time to play!

Winter Storm 2/5/10

More pictures from meeting Peyton Manning

Fun pics from Christmas 2009

Supporting the Blue...

A major storm will hit the southern part of Florida on Sunday...

Go Colts!!!!

Thought I'd share a bit of Riley's school work...

With Riley being in 4th grade, she has to do A LOT of creative writing in school. Here are two of the short stories that she's written. One about her rotten little brother and a letter to Santa from a penguin....

My Rotten, Brown Haired Brother

By Riley Tindal

I have a rotten little brother. He is seven years old, and his name is Payton. His favorite color is orange. Believe it or not, he has one wall painted orange in his room. It is very vibrant! I'm surprised he can sleep in there! He likes to play with army men. Sometimes he makes me play, but I don't like it. Payton's favorite NFL teams are the Indianapolis Colts and Chicago Bears. The player he likes on the Colts is Peyton Manning and on the bears is Jay Cutler. The cool thing about his name is that he was named after Walter Payton who used to play for the Chicago Bears. His favorite sports are football, basketball, and soccer. Payton is good at playing quarterback because he yells very loud. That was a little bit about my little brother. Even though he can be rotten, I still like him just the way he is!

A Letter To Santa

By Riley Tindal

Dear Santa,

I am Peggy the penguin. I have a secret to tell you, but please don't tell anyone else. Here it goes.... I have a huge crush on Rudolph! Santa, since I have a crush on Rudolph and I want to meet him, can I please be on your sleigh team? I would be good at getting you through the snow because I live in the South Pole where there is a lot of snow. I know how cold it is going to be since I live in the snow. I can slither across the snow and ice to deliver the presents if we were to crash. Are you thinking about letting me on the team? I sure hope so!

Sincerely,

Peggy, Your Favorite Penguin