The White House: March 2013

What bugs you?

Science Fair 2012 is officially over! Abby put together a fantastic project dealing with potential alternatives to poisonous ant killers. Just an FYI - you can temporarily repel ants with vinegar and chalk, but they'll eventually come back. You're better off sticking with Windex or plain old Raid. So proud of all of her hard work! Papa is glad that he doesn't have to wrangle any more fire ants. And doesn't her board look great????

Cousins

Jace and Jackson came to visit Nanny and I was fortunate enough to have my camera in the car. I was able to snap some cute shots of the cousins playing together in Nanny's yard. Love to see all the kiddos having fun together!

Jace wanted to show me his "funny face."

Right after I took this picture, we realized that they were standing in a pile of ants. Boo.

Love this one! Such funny faces.

They planned this picture. Street toughs!

This is hilarious to me.

Home with Flu

Emily caught a genuine case of the flu this year (that's right - we didn't get flu shots) and was out of school for an entire week. The flu wasn't nearly as bad as all of the makeup work! Donald, Cici, and I took days off to stay home with her during her convalescence. We played loads of board games, watched loads of Brady Bunch, and read loads of books. Not too bad, considering the circumstances! John and Ringo got in on the action, also, as you can see from the picture below.

S.S. Americano

Who needs loads of toys when you have a cardboard box? Emily and Abby appropriated the large cardboard box that my car's new wheel was shipped in. They filled it full of animals and christened it the S.S. Americano, after their favorite song from the Wii Just Dance game. They had loads of fun until the cats started shredding the styrofoam packing inside. The S.S. Americano had to head to the scrapyard after that! Love their creativity!

Happy New Year!

Emily begged to stay up until midnight this year and we decided to give it a try. She had great fun watching Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve and dancing along to Gangnam Style but crashed out at about 20 minutes before the ball dropped. I tried to wake her up to see Taylor Swift and the big countdown, but the only New Year's Eve celebration in her future was the DVR version. We had fun trying, though!

Disney!

We took a fabulous Winter Break trip to Disney World and came back loaded down with photographs and good memories. Enjoy the plethora of photos and please excuse my long absence from blogging!