Cool Coasters~

I finally did it.  I finally went and bought Coasters.

It's one of those things that I overlook having

when the moment is here, and once the moment has

 passed I forget I will need them for the next time.

 I am really excited about the ones I purchased!

The cool thing is you can slide photos in the back

of these light green, glass tiles.  It was fun 

choosing some favorite photos we took in Europe.

I have four countries represented:

Belgium, Germany, Greece, and The Czech Republic.

 Here are a couple of photos from Brugge, Belgium.

Anyone's welcome to stop by for a refreshing drink!

This time I'm ready!

Working The Election Process~

Last night Jim and I attended the caucus in our precinct.

We learned quite a bit about this process and have a

lot more learning to do before it makes better sense.

The turn out was amazing!  The Broomfield High

Auditorium was full with many having to stand.

There was also a great number of young people which

was great to see, and not all of them were for Ron Paul. :)

One of the young men was 18 and excited to be a part

of the process.  It's fun knowing Cody will be able to

vote in the election this coming November.

 After the opening general meeting in the local high

school auditorium where all attending cast their straw

votes those choosing to continue on to the precinct

meetings went to assigned classrooms to vote for the

2 delegates we wanted to send on to represent us in 

future meetings and be voted for.

Once our precinct voted then these 2 delegates moved

 to a larger group to be voted for with the delegates from

 the other precincts.  The end result from our votes in this 

second round was to send 11 representing Mitt Romney 

and 1 undeclared.

It is COLD~

While doing the dishes I glanced out my window

and noticed icicles hanging from the trees!

As usual the sun quickly returned after our major 

storm and began to melt away all the inches of snow.  

 There was quite a bit of snow on the pine trees 

in the back of our yard which was also melting.

  

 But our nights turned very, very cold.  

This mornings low was 8 degrees F.

 So whatever melting began yesterday froze in

the night and for today.   Tomorrow will bring

warmer temperatures again.

I wandered out to the trees thinking my boots would

get the job done.  Well, it's deeper than it looks and

I came back in with snow in my boots!

Snow Day-NO SCHOOL!!!~

What a great start to February!

The weather reports started coming in

the day before this storm saying it was

going to be a doozy!

The storm started moving in Thursday night.

 Closures were already being posted on 

the news channels, except Boulder schools,

to Cody's annoyance.  So instead we got the 

phone call at 4:30 am on Friday that school 

was cancelled.  This is what we woke up to

on Friday morning.  Cody's headed out to 

clear off the trampoline.

 But not before he jumps on it!

 Soft landing.

 Our neighbor Jon came over to help dig out our 

driveway that is always "too big" when there's 

this much snow to shovel.

 The snow plows came through our streets but now we

had to do some work to be able to get onto the street....

 Some shoveling on the back deck.

 I'm SO HAPPY we got snow, and a lot of it!!!

 The next day we woke up to about 5 more 

inches on top of yesterday's accumulation.

 The storm broke several snow records around the Denver area.  

Broomfield received 19.8 inches of snow!!

We were going to get up early and head to the 

mountains for a day of skiing, with the Lewis's, but none 

of this snow made it to the resorts we ski at.  

We just have to appreciate it in our yards this time.

I love winter storms!