February 23-24, 2013 Weekend, Snow People, Another Crocheted Crusher Hat, and Family

This photo shows our front yard and how no one had stepped into it, yet. I remember when Joshua was little and it snowed, he would always be mad if he found tracks in our yard; because he wanted to be the first one to step into the snow in his yard.  🙂

My weekend started off with me going into work to make up the time that I missed on Thursday. The bad thing about having a snow day is the time that you have to use from your vacation time or in my case I chose to work and make it up. Please don’t get me wrong and think that I’m complaining because I’m not and I haven’t always had a job where I got vacation or sick leave. So I understand about the people who don’t have these kinds of benefits, when you miss work you don’t get paid; I feel blessed to have the benefits that I do have where I work.

After work I met up with John for lunch at Tanya’s Soup Kitchen and it was delicious as always. I had the Tomato Soup and John had the Chicken Tortilla soup. Then John and I went our separate ways. I ran by Hancock’s to purchase some black and red yarn to make another Crocheted Crusher Hat for an order I received on Friday. I couldn’t believe the parking lot with all the snow, slush, water, and ice that I had to wade through just to get to the front door. I could hardly believe I was risking my life to get yarn. But I’m sure most of you know that I would walk across the sea to get just the right yarn for just the right project. 😉

Later in the afternoon we decided that we needed a few groceries since we were supposed to have another big snow storm hit us again and we were running low on some things; so John went to the store. While he was gone I made dinner; a baked pasta dish with wheat Penne shells, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, spaghetti sauce, and mozzarella cheese.

Then I served broccoli and cauliflower on the side. John waited at the store while the bakery baked him a fresh loaf of Ciabatta bread, I was wondering why it was taking him 2 hours at the store. He had to call and report to me that all the shelves were almost bare from everyone stocking up for the upcoming storm.

As he arrived back I told him that we needed to take another picture of us together and he smiled and said ok.

Then I told him to look at me and instead he smooshed my nose and kissed me.  🙂 He’s so silly!

On Sunday morning I got a call from my niece Sarah who was visiting my Mom. She asked if we wanted to join them at Emilia’s for breakfast and of course we said yes.

It’s always nice to see Sarah and her boyfriend Tom. Sarah, come back when you can spend some time with me. We’ll sit and crochet something.  🙂

When we arrived back home I told John that I wanted to make two snow people; I wanted to make a woman and I wanted him to make a man.

So that’s what we did. It doesn’t matter to him what we do as long as we spend time together, as he felt of my forehead to see if I was sick.

We had a good time creating them and their faces. Don’t you love the grass that I added for his moustache? 😉

John even set up the tri-pod so that we could set the timer and have our picture taken with our snow people. The young neighbors across the street came out at the moment we were sitting down for our family portrait. They smiled and said that they thought the snow people were very cute.

After we went in and while I was waiting for John to get changed I finished the Crocheted Crusher Hat that I had purchased the yarn for the day before. I love how it turned out, but I’m not crazy about the black on me but it doesn’t matter because it will look great on Lee Ann who I made it for.

We went shopping at the mall for a little while and when we got back home the eyes and noses had fallen off of both the snow people. John got out and shoved the eyes back in and we readjusted the hats, but now they are just sitting there waiting for the next round of snow to hit us. I told John that they look like they are watching the neighbors across the street. I hope you all had a good weekend. I know I did, because I stopped and smelled the roses or technically I stopped and made a snow woman.  🙂