Easter 2014

Began the day with church, had lunch and an Easter eggs hunt with Aunt Kitty and Apple John and some friends, then took our Sunday naps. It was a beautiful and restful day!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter!

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

John 11:25-26

Snowpocalypse 2014

At least this time they closed the schools instead of just sending us home early! We Delks have been homebound for 3 days. The snow started on Tuesday and ended last last night/ this morning.

Pictures from Tuesday's snow:

Not a lot of snow, just enough to freak everyone out and close school. Then we get this:

This is a picture of Joe's garden beds in the backyard. Completely covered.

I took the kids outside in the front yard in the hopes of getting them to build a snowman, but instead Abby decides to take a face-plant right off.

I didn't bring out a ruler or anything, but the snow was up to their knees. It reminded me of when I was the twins' age and lived in Japan. I know Japan got more snow than this, but I remember trying to walk through it and face-planting quite often.

We had a lot of fun! It is supposed to get up to 40 degrees, so we will wait and see about going to school tomorrow. Just in time for Valentines Day parties and a full moon. Oh joy.

Daddy/ Daughter Date Night

Tonight Joe is taking Abby to the happiest place on earth for little girls... the Monster Truck Show.

Last year he took the boys and he offered to take them again this year. The boys turned him down saying that it was too loud last year. Apparently those were the magic words for Abby.Someplace loud with lots of boys? That's right up her alley! :)

The "Blizzard" of 2014

Yeah, calling it a blizzard might be overstating, but the kids enjoyed it. School dismissed early yesterday and traffic was horrible, but I managed to get the kids and make it home in just under 3 hours. No school today and tomorrow means we have plenty of time to play in the snow. Here are some pics from today.

 Heading out

 Abby's snow angel

 Andy's snow angel

Best. Snow day. Ever.

And in payment for all the fun, I got a clean living room and clean kids' rooms. It was a win-win!

Abby the Cheerleader

Ready? O-K!

There's a little girl at the daycare  that teaches Abby all of her cheers. You simply can't imagine my excitement. *sigh*
Well, never let it be said that I don't support my children. Walmart had their pom-poms on sale for $5. Not too shabby.

So, here is Abby in her cheerleading debut! Grammy Pat- you'll have to watch these on your computer, not the ipad.

Cheers with pom-poms.

Cheers without pom-poms: LINK

And a brand new cheer created by Abby!- LINK

Don't worry, I'm sure we can bring the pom-poms to Julia's birthday and Delk Thanksgiving!

Fun Day in Nature ... Excuse to post some fun pictures

OK everyone out there. We have had an ongoing battle in our house over electronics...laptop, Ipad, Nook, Kindle Fire, etc. Isaac has become addicted to video games. I can understand this...but I also understand why my Dad got ticked off at Craig one time over a Gameboy. Craig missed one of the most beautiful sunsets witnessed in the Sequatchie Valley because he had to make it to the next level of Tetris...then wondered where his Gameboy went for a couple of weeks.

The other night we had an amazing rainbow outside our house. Andy and Abby were thrilled with it.

Isaac was ho-hum about it and quickly returned to beat the next level of Plants vs Zombies.

This more than a little frustrated me and Andy is usually more than happy to sit next to Isaac and watch him slay evil zombies with vegetables he won't touch.

So, the past two weekends, Abby and Andy have been out in nature and trying to convince Isaac that it is cool and way better than video games. Abby even says that waterfalls are better than watching Dr. Who. So today we decided to kidnap Isaac and make him enjoy some nature. We took a little excursion to Fall Creek Falls. I would say mission accomplished. Isaac said multiple times that this was the most awesome day ever.

We hiked to the bottom of the Falls and spent quite a bit of time down there today. Isaac got over his boredom with Nature. Andy worked on his fear of spiders. Abby collected wild turkey feathers, although by the end of the day she was saying they came from wild chickens.

We then went to the Nature Center and listened to an informative talk about local snakes. The kids got to pet four snakes today and Abby found a baby Northern Water Snake. I freaked out a little of this one because they look similar to a copperhead. But with the information from our talk...I now know that it was a harmless little scare. But you never know when Abby says she has found a baby snake!







Of course the day was not fraught with Daddy adventures in parenting. Andy decided that he needed to pee pee...in front of everyone at the base of the falls. Here is his reaction to his public nudity...

Abby also added to the fun. She came up to me while we were playing and said she had to tell me something but it would only make me mad. She then said she needed to potty. No problem, we have done this before, she just holds my hand and leans out...but this time she had to uso el numero dos. SO...we had that at the bottom as well. Abby had trouble understanding what she had fertilized the bottom with.

Please note, this was not an actual picture.













All said, there was fun had by all.

I must admit. It was a really awesome day. God creates a lot of cool stuff.













Isaac smiled and said, "It is good."

I am guessing this will be one of the things they won't mind doing again...as long as we don't go across the swinging bridge. Andy and Abby did not like that one.

Better than the original!

Grammy Pat, you'll have to watch these on your computer, not the ipad.

Everyone knows that Abby loves to cheese it up for the camera. Today, she wanted to show off her singing.

Here's the original video, the song was introduced to Abby by Aunt Boo:

And here's Abby!

Now tell me she's not better than the original! :)