January Bonfire…
It has been a beautiful week, as I have said before. Yesterday, Stephen decided to light there bon fire that they had been building up for quite a while. It had rained, it wasn’t to windy, it wasn’t to cold. It was the perfect day.
There is what the fire looked like when it was first lit. It is a pretty big pile.
Here is what it looked like after about an hour.
It burnt about 8 hours total though, Kyra and I quit watching it after about 5 hours. We went in the house and watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2. That makes so I have seen all of those.
While we were watching the fire we were riding the 4 wheeler around a bit. Kyra likes riding 4-wheeler. She let Stephen bring her home and get new shoes without me (She had her boots which were falling off.), which is probably a first of some sort.
I didn’t take a picture of her going through the mud like I thought I had, so next time. She was quite ready for a bath though at the end of this day. She was rolling down the hill, playing catch with the dogs, running, and screaming. She made everyone laugh at least once with her screams. She likes doing anything outside though, so she was loving it all day.
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Here she is opening a gift. You will notice she is in different clothing in all of these photos. When she opened a clothing package we had to try that piece on, so I think she wore 6 or 7 outfits all in the matter of an hour.
She got a fake electric guitar. I broke the strap within a few seconds of opening it, but it seems cool. I actually don’t mind loud toys, isn’t that an amazing fact?? LOL…
I got her dressed in her nice new Christmas day outfit and what does she do?? Yeah, she goes into the dog cage and sits for awhile. 
I left my camera at Stephen’s house, so he was taking photos of his dog with it. This is one of those photos.
When you looked outside, you would have thought about the same thing as what I felt like. We are under attack, take for example my trees here. In the normal parts of the year, I can drive my lawn mower under those trees. They are so weighted down with ice that they are sitting on the ground at the base. It is amazingly beautiful though in a way.
So, I concentrated on the amazingly beautiful today and headed out with my camera and Kyra. I busted out the snow pants that I had bought her for Christmas even, so she would stay warm. Yeah, she doesn’t have her gloves on…they are in the pocket. We weren’t out that long though only like 20 minutes. I didn’t wear gloves at all, so we were okay.
Here are some of the ice pictures I took. The ice was just hanging from about everything. The grass looks very cool coated in like this small layer.
We walked around our small block during this short outing. We were walking along and right behind us this branch fell from the sky. It was amazing sounding.
My ugly bus has little icicles all the way around it.
We came back from out and ate lunch and played around. Kyra was exceptionally grumpy all day way more than standard days. She is getting so she just constantly screams “Mommy Mommy” even when I am standing a few inches from her. Oh, it is so annoying. We read though, read the help wanted section of the weekly newspaper, rode tricycle, talked to people on the phone, played with the dog, took showers, played with the V-smile, basically everything I know how to do that she likes. I stopped doing anything though when she was crying, so I sat on the couch a lot too.
First off, I’ll show you my cute little Christmas tree. This was before it had lights on it. It now has lights. I still haven’t a clue where all my Christmas decorations are though, so it is looking cute, but sad. I have searched and searched. I wonder if Adam took them accidentally…but who knows. It has lights and some decorations now and some red and silver icicles stuff. It looks big from outside too because it is on a table. LOL… It is like 4 feet tall.
This is part of the mess that Kyra made the other night while I was in the room. She poured the milk in the glass and about 1/4 of that total Nesquik container in there. She transferred it to a bowl at one point and microwaved it, so it was all over the place messy. She is forgiven though it is all cleaned up.
Here she is on the phone like she is always. She is obsessed with talking on the phone and will talk to absolutely anyone.
Here is her on the phone again, but when she says “Good Bye” there is usually a kiss coming afterwards, so this is during the kiss part. She is really quite good at it. I think her dad taught her this one though as I don’t kiss the phone.
I worked a lot today. I am not really sure of what all I got done though, does that even make sense?? I did little things like balance my checkbook, some paperwork for this and that. I did some paperwork for some old projects I had been working on. I did the write up for this piece of nickel ore that I said I would. This piece is very ugly isn’t it. This is ore from the Nickel Mines in PA. There were some database errors in one of my lists that I run and so I spent quite awhile figuring that out. I did a lot, but nothing major and it seems like almost nothing is finished yet.
My neighbors tree was in perfect color. The yellows have been so pretty this last week. It is sort of sad though because the reds are past the prime and the yellows just hit. There isn’t going to be that super super pretty orange shades this year. It is sort of dull.
Anyways, Lyn had her daughter with today, so we was taking photos of her. My favorite photos turned out to be ones with Kyra in them though, is that unusual for a mom???
Kyra was mimicking her, which was adorable. They were both hitting the same poses, I have a whole series like this.
There was than this photo with the 3 kids. Kyra was in her glory with all this going on, she likes being a model usually, but she also like running away from mom and knows the exact second to turn her head to miss the shot. She didn’t even notice how cold it was and had taken her coat off by the time they were leaving. 
Here is one of the photos of me that we took yesterday. I think this one turned out great, but you can’t tell that I am up on this huge platform thing, pretty high.
Here is my favorite one of Ricky. He was the goal of the photography mission, this is one of the last ones that I took and it is in his own yard. I edited it a little, but I really like the way he looks in this one. There are others that look nice too though.
Here is Lyn. This is a better shot for her to put on her 
Today was a great day. Way better than yesterday…. I hope that this new day schedule doesn’t make all my Saturday’s crazy like yesterday. Here is a good photo of us, I set the auto-timer on the couch with us sitting on the floor. I was noticing that I haven’t posted a photo in a few days…why I have no idea as I have taken them.
Here is another Haley photo. This is her with my brother (her dad). He sent me photos last night of them and I loved this one. They do fun stuff with Haley’s hair too. Kyra would have that ponytail thing out in 2.1 seconds. Aren’t they cute though…. These photos make me smile. I know that.
Here is a photo of Kyra sitting on Stan. I haven’t put him on here in awhile either, so I am out doing myself today. They were reading books together today which was pretty cute.
Here is Kyra with her baby. She was kissing the baby, but I am to slow with the shutter to get the action when it happens. Oh, how she loves her babies though. She has so many of them. Deuce seems to only want to eat the actual Barbie ones though, so the others are pretty safe.
Here is one last one of Kyra from today. I took more after I loaded these ones up, so maybe tomorrow you will see more. 
Last photo… we can’t leave out Deuce. He was good all day. 
Here you go, this is either Haley my niece or Kyra. Can you tell which is which, I’m not telling?
It is pretty amazing how similar they look. I can’t wait now to see Haley in a few weeks. LOL… I’ll get to photo them together…how fun.
I am not going to have a nice long post detailing my playing with Kyra today, but I had some fun. We played ball with the dog to of course. Here are some photos though, which some didn’t turn out so good. It is hard to photo a running two year old though sometimes.
I was chasing her for this photo, she spilled the entire glass right there onto the dog. Now Deuce needs a bath tomorrow.
We also put shoes on the dog which was pretty fun.
I came home and was ready to go 4-wheeling with my new sort of boyfriend. Yes, I am moving on from Adam. We are not getting back together like I have said before and some people keep asking. Neither of us wants to, we are both liking our lives better separate as crazy as that sounds. Anyways, I have been seeing this guy for a little over a week, so here is the coming out. You can even see his photo…nobody escapes my lens, you know.
We were 4 wheeling though and it was very fun. I drove about 1/3 of the way back. We stopped and I took photos of the fall leaves about 10 times. It was a beautiful night. I didn’t even need my sweatshirt it is so nice. I love the fall. It is easily my favorite time of year.
We loaded the 4 wheeler in the truck and came back, of course. I basically got home and got Stan jumped in the car and went to get Kyra. I was a few minutes late picking her up, but it was okay. I think she had fun with her dad today. 
She fell asleep on the way home and is still out. I am about to take the dog out and go to bed myself. It was a really fun day though. I hope every Monday will become this fun. Good Night…
