The Rowdy Family: snow

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

letter update 2/24/2015

Hope you had a good week! It's good to see pics of you smiling! I just finished
studying my Book of Mormon for the morning! & I was thinking about how you are
already blessing our family. Everyone is a buzz about reading it even the little
boys & even Cody (the big boys :) isn't it so awesome the power that comes from
it?! Ezra does his best to read it too and his reading skills have improved
exponentially because of it! There is more peace in our home as well! Anyway I
remember feeling addicted to it :) & I'm starting to feel it again. Because it
helps you REMEMBER Gods love. So in a way it's like nibbling  the fruit in
Lehi's dream.

We don't have school today because of an ice storm! It's nice.
I'll try & send a video of Ollie eating snow. 
Cool you got to golf! Love your
comp! Keep up the good work!
Love you!!
Aunt Celeste

3/10/15

We just read your letter,...and saw you pic (obviously) so glad things are going better! And we just sent you a letter in the mail! Keep up the good work!!

Love you!!!

Ezra & Aunt Celeste

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Last week we were stuck in the house because of the snow but mostly because of the ice on the roads. We had a little bit of cabin fever by the end of the week. and I ended up snapping a picture of Rowdy with my cellphone, with his "Somebody in California loves me" shirt on. He had found the backpack from Degan's house with all his clothes still in it, which was on his back and was standing at the edge of the garage in front of all the snow telling me he was ready to go to California ! ;)

(As we were putting on the California shirt earlier we were talking about all of the people who love him in California so I am sure the comment was prompted more by that, than the fact it was freezing cold outside. It just made me smile) ( and the fact that it will be 70 by this weekend also makes me smile.)

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Its 17 degrees y'all

So it was feeling a little chilly this morning after I got out of bed and I went to go turn up the thermostat because I usually turn the heater off at night. (and it was so warm this weekend!) I knew last night was going to be a doozy so I left the temp at 58, only to find... The power was out!!!

Luckily it was a short rolling blackout and it was a good emergency preparedness wake-up reminder. (I need the propane stove closer)

Anyway we are having us some fun in 15 minute increments because that wind can really take it out of ya. Ezra's face is all scrunched up because he learned the hard way why we wear gloves. or maybe he really wanted a tissue?

what is this stuff?

wrong kind of snowman snow. So here is our powder version

and our snowballs

We need some waterproof gloves in Ezra's size

Today's activity we put food coloring in water and made snow cones. Cant take credit we saw this on some lady's blog. Sorry I don't remember whos. But the boys liked it...

and licked it

Keep warm everyone! love ya

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Toothache

A Toothache is definitely humbling. I have never really had one before I could feel something was a little weird back there this weekend. My cousin Missy, from my Dad's side, who I haven't seen forever got to come out from Salt Lake. And she brought her list of Diners Drive Ins & Dives so we ate n ate and ate. It was her and I and The 2 "E"s. Rowdy was invited to a boy slumber party down at Tiffany and Bobby's house. and what great timing. He and I had been needing a little break from each other. Now he is back and we are both so much happier. It was so nice to catch up and hang out with Missy and we listened to a CD my Mom had just given me of our Grandma (My Dad's mom who passed away years ago) talking about how she and Grandpa Anderson met. It was really cool. and speaking of cool Missy was cracking up at church on Sunday right before her plane left as all the young women and I and Ezra ran outside to check out the HUGe Snowflakes!! They were beautiful. and it was just enough snow for the boys to run around in and taste and make our yard all white and beautiful, and still get Missy's flight out on time. All this while, I am starting to get a cold.
Cody was home on Monday and we just stayed inside and played all day. Rowdy and Ezra love the "Just Dance 2" on the wii. My favorite part is Rowdy running around the house singing "Biba Hos Begas" and trying to dance like an Elvis "cowboy" even after all the music is gone. Oh and I like watching Cody dance too just because any other time he refuses to.
So Tuesday Cody is gone to work and I wake up with this crazy toothache sure I will never be able to eat sweets again. I called 1800 dentist because the last dentist I went to in the area were more salespeople than they were dentists. It annoyed me. anyway sweetheart Lynda watched all three of my crazy kids while I went to the Dentist. I was so sure I was going to have to get an emergency root canal it hurt so bad. They took an x-ray and the dentist told me it wasn't my tooth. My sinuses had swollen up so big because of my "cold" they were crowding the tops of my molars! and then the sweet man wrote me a prescription for an antibiotic. It was so nice not having to get my teeth drilled. Even though I was fully prepared for it. I just felt like it was such a tender mercy I got sent to that dentist. He just had an awesome vibe even before he hooked me up with antibiotics. and then for him to do that and not have me go to another doctor and beg someone to watch my kids again. I just felt like I was being watched out for.
Then to top off my Tuesday I wanted to do something nice for Lynda, "the bread whisperer", and Amelia brought this beautiful bread pan as a prize that I won at pictionary's Ugly Sweater contest! Of course I am still mentally in debt to Lynda because she helped me get to pictionary in the first place. Yet another tender mercy to end up living in the middle of two great sisters.

Here are some pictures of Missy Weekend

Mowhawk or Devil cap?

I don't think we have a normal beanie in this house

Friday, February 12, 2010

Papa and Yaya visit

The day after Christmas Yaya and Papa came for their Christmas visit. They took the train from California. It was so nice to see them. and as always we crammed a ton of fun into the short time they were here.

The first day they spent here they worked all day on a huge and amazing Christmas dinner. Mmmm. Everything was sooooo good.

Rowdy helped Yaya make Orange rolls.

I wanted to hog my parents all to myself, but they made so much food we had no choice to invite over more family :)
After dinner my mom helped the kids make gingerbread houses. Rowdy just kept putting candy inside of the house, umm and inside of his mouth

There was still a little left over snow so Rowdy had a hayday chasing Papa with snowballs.

Then it snowed some more. Papa took Rowdy on a little sleigh ride

Ezra loving the attention

Papa grew up in Utah so he knew all the moves. Moves to make the best snowmen, moves to make cool snowforts

We went to Central Market while they were here too looking for good cheese.

We did a "little" fishing. no literally

Papa gave us the tree and Papa taketh away the tree.
That was amazing.

and before the tree disappeared we realized we had forgot to open some presents. It was a true happy mistake. Rowdy had been getting the Christmas presents Christmas morning and then we had gone to breakfast and somehow not opened my parents gifts to the kids. So they go to be there for that. Thanks Mom and Dad

New Years Eve Eve we went down to San Antonio with my parents. We shared a hotel room with them which had one of those big armoires? for the ironing boards and junk, and that's where Rowdy slept, just for fun. We heard him in the middle of the night knocking his head on the wood. It was sad funny.
New Years Eve,We went to a cool little Safari drive through park. Favorite moments=The goat video, where he tears open Rowdy's sack, The ostrich reaching its head in my Dad's car and pecking his hand. and then Rowdy who was shaken up because of the whole goat incident, getting screamed at for at least 30 seconds by a crazy lemur. Once again funny sad.

After the safari park we went to the Alamo and the River walk. Such a cool place.

The River walk was hoppin' because of new years eve. My Mom and Dad took Rowdy and Ezra back to the hotel in the evening while Cody and I had a date. It was so nice.

So then I love to do the 12 grapes at midnight thing so we tried to buy some of that and martinelli's on the way back to the hotel, but I guess there are a lot of latins in San Antonio because all of the grapes were gone. So we ended up with cheese puffs and Manzana Sol! anyway it didn't matter because we all fell asleep 3 min before midnight! Happy 2010
We had such a good time. Thanks for all of the fun memories Mom and Dad. You are amazing