A Friend's Love says:
" If you ever need anything, I'll be there."

True Love says:
" You'll never need anything; I'll be there."

Jimi Hollemans

Today I become the proud mom of a teenager.

*GULP* 

I have enjoyed watching her grow into one.  I just can't believe she's 13 years old now.  Yesterday was an example of how grown up she really is.  We went out for the afternoon and she said to us "Can we please be home at a decent time so I can get my homework done?"  Sure she waited until Sunday to do it all but I thought it showed maturity and responsibility.  She's amazing, no doubt about that.

We got her an IPOD nano w/ a different metal case and an ITUNES giftcard.  She's going to be ecstatic!  She's been wanting one since before Christmas.  We always wait to get the more "special" gifts for her birthday.  Birthdays are more special than Christmas in our little family unit :).

Ashley

I used to focus on my "attempt" to photography a lot more but with so many other things on the go I lost my focus.  Now that we got a new camera and it's so much smaller that I can take it with me in my big ol' purse I think I can spend a little more time taking photos!

Here are a couple of the first photos taken with my new camera.  Guess the object ;)

..and for fun I will add the last couple of photos from the other camera.

We got so much snow today!  There is like 2 feet of snow out there and that happened in less than a 24 hour period of time!  Insane.

It took us 1.5 hours to drive home from picking Ashley up at school (normally a 15 min drive).  We had to park our car at the bottom of the hill near our street and walk the rest of the way.

Here is a video of when we left to pick Ashley up from school.  Look a the size of those flakes!!

And here is a photo looking up from where we had to park our car and walk.  As you can tell, there was no way we were gonna make it up that hill.

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And this is from the peak of the hill..we had another 5 minutes to go to be at our house.  These people were waiting for the people that had their cars all sideways from trying to make it up the hill.

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I think the power is going to go out again today.

The winds are insane today!  The power has been flickering a bit today.

I think I'll take my laptop off electric power now.

This weather is truly bizarre.