Charlotte Won a Nintendo Switch!

During Snowmageddon: Exciting day today! Several months ago Charlotte entered a Lunchables sweepstakes and actually won the grand prize, a Nintendo Switch! Being the skeptic I am, I thought I’m not going to believe it til I see it. Well, it got delivered today! She is so happy!

That was what I put on Facebook. I did not tell everyone the full story. So yes, she and Nathan were buying lunchables and entering the codes on the lunchables because of the sweepstakes going on. No one really thought they would win, but they were religious about saving their codes and entering. Well, we've been getting onto the kids about being respectful and not interrupting when Daddy and I are talking or watching a show. Wayne and I were binging Game of Thrones, and Charlotte came into the room once then left. About an hour later she came back down and quietly said, "guys? excuse me? I have something kind of important to tell you." We paused and asked what it was. She said "I just entered one of my codes and it said congratulations, you're a winner! We were like WHAAAAAT?! But it turns out that once she entered the code and it said she won, it asked for her to fill out her information like name, number, address, and email address. That's when she came into the living room the first time and then turned and walked out because she didn't want to disturb us. She thought she knew my email address and entered it, but it didn't work, so then she put in her email address, but she actually put in the wrong email address. So when she told all of this to us, our hearts sank because the verification and confirmation was being sent to that wrong email address. I'm like great, this isn't going to work out. Well Daddy came to the rescue and found out who to email. The next day, he also called them and told them what happened. He always fixes everything. So she entered the contest in September and finally got her prize in February. All of Nathan and Charlotte's friends were so impressed and jealous :)

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Snowmageddon

Snowmageddon happened to Texas! We knew it was going to snow but had no idea how much! We were out of school for a whole week! It was great and miserable at the same time. In total we got around 6 inches of snow. It was great for sledding and playing in the snow! There were kids at the school field every single day. They were sledding and rolling around in the snow. Nathan even went with one of her friends where they tied their sled to the a truck who took them all around the neighborhood. The bad part was that we found out that they were predicting a huge strain on the power grid. They said that they would have to do rolling blackouts to prevent anyone from permanently losing power. Well some people were extremely lucky and never lost any power. Even at the end of our neighborhood, they never lost power. Then some people were  kind of lucky by losing power for an hour, then on for 3 hours, off for  1 hour, on for 3. And then some got screwed like us. Our power went off for 8 hours, on for 2, off for 8 and so on. It got so bad because the temperature outside would get as low at 10 degrees! We were wearing our snow clothes inside. I was freezing at night and having to light candles. To keep from being bored and frozen to death, Wayne and I sat in my car in the driveway, turned the heat on and watched a movie on the DVD player. Nathan and Charlotte were living the life by staying with friends a few streets over who had power. You don't realize how much you need power until it's gone!!! When the power did come on for an hour or two, we jumped up and did everything that needed power: make a pot of coffee, cooked something in oven, dry some clothes, charge our phones. It was so funny! The other bad thing was that our pipes to our pool froze so it stopped running and the pool froze solid. Once it thawed, there was major damage to our equipment. We weren't able to get it all the way fixed until the end of May! We also had a ton of our shrubs/landscaping die. 

Valentine's Day Cookies

Any holiday that Mama and Charlotte can have an excuse to get together, spend the night, and bake, they take it. Happy Valentine's Day! Charlotte spent the night and decorated cookies and then I came over in the morning for heart shaped pancakes :)