Boyd with his toy snakes

Boydee got these for Christmas.

Reminds me of a scene from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure...

The weekend that was

How was your weekend? Ours was solid.

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I got home from Cleveland Friday afternoon and was exhausted. Judy stayed home with Boyd because he was sick that day. We made some frozen pizzas and just relaxed... After too many nights in hotel rooms over the past two weeks, I was ready to get some sleep in my own bed.

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Saturday I stayed home with Boyd while the girls (Adro, Evey and Judy) went out to get their nails done. That was the snow day. That morning I went to the grocery store to get stuff for breakfast. Then, later, Boyd and I made run # 2 to get stuff for vegetable beef stew. 

A lot of Uno was played during the day between Boydee and me, along with the Batman board game. Boyd drank from his snack/drink cup, mostly munching on crackers all day. Pretty chill day.

The snow started hitting and we just sort of watched it whole also watching college basketball. The OU game, then the UK/UNC game, then the KU/Davidson game.

I had concert tickets that night, but elected against going with the dangerous weather. The tickets were for Local Natives and Band of Horses. That's the second time I've missed Local Natives this year, guess I'm just not meant to see them in 2016.

It was so cold out on Saturday night (a wind chill of something like -10, right?) that we all snuggled up together and turned on the new episode of Saturday Night Live. By the end of the monologue, three out of four Joneses were asleep. 

I watched a little bit of Empire Strikes Back myself before going to bed. By midnight I took both kids to their own beds... just not enough room for the four of us, with the kids getting so big. 

At about 3 a.m. I heard the dog bark, and then I saw Boyd run from his room to our room. He was having a nightmare. He then bunked with us the rest of the night.

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Sunday morning we all decided not to do anything — church for the wife and kids, basketball for me. Boyd slept in until almost 9:30 a.m., remarkably late for him.

I made breakfast biscuit sandwiches for everyone again. The vegetable beef stew was ready and waiting in the wings. Adrianne and Evey worked on wrapping presents all day while I cleaned up the basement, did laundry, organized some stuff, while watching football and listening to music on the jukebox (I'm a big multi-tasker.)

The veggie beef stew was for late lunch and dinner (accompanied with grilled cheese sammiches at dinner) and was a huge hit. Hardly any left!

Now Evey is baking cookies while Adro is getting ready for the week. Boyd's probably watching "Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer." The dog is asleep on the floor pillow next to me.

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I only left the house twice all weekend (both to the local grocery store) and while I was frustrated about eating those concert tickets on Saturday night, it was a great weekend. Productive, quiet, relaxing. 

I'm shutting this down — Boyd just paged me on the intercom system and shouted, "THE COOKIES ARE READY!!!"  

My favorite moment

From last weekend -- and there were a lot of good moments to choose from!

Evey's b-day party

Was a smashing success! And yet we didn't even break any ceramics!