Curly Queen

EmmaLeigh was picked to be Queen Bee this week at school. As such, a Queen (or King) Bee is able to wear their hair in a fancy new way, so Emma opted for curly locks. She is so excited that she looks like her cousin Brooke!

Fire Rescue

Don't be worried... there was a fire in our family room last evening, fortunately help came immediately. It required two firetrucks and three firemen (one is very little, apparently in training as the other, larger two did all the work). All involved were safely rescued from the emergency thanks to the excellent skills of the two head firemen (Claire insists that she is a fireman, too and not a firegirl).

They worked as a team to rescue both a Mom and baby from the situation.

Mom was assisted into the hook and ladder for safe evacuation by fireman Claire, while little fireman watches.

Overall, Cooper was pleased with how the team worked together in what could have been a very serious situation.

"Sledding" Fun!

Claire aced the dolphin ridin'

Cooper had a big ole spin out at the bottom of his runs...

and Emma hit a speed bump on the hill (all stunts performed in this scene caused no injury to any involved speed bumps).

All in all, it was a great North Carolina fun snowy weekend!

SNOW!!!

Horray for the weekend of snow! A weekend full of hot chocolate, movies, "sledding", and all sorts of Forced Family Fun (the old FFF, as we used to call it in the Keely household!)!

Warming up our toes by the fire... no more tozen froes!

Goodmorning Snow! (do you see us peeking through the window?)

The red-neck, southern sled... no point in purchasing a nice Flexible Flyer for the one time every eight years when we will get a day of sled-able snow. Just use what you've got! An inflatable dolphin will do just fine (after Mom and Dad popped the pink innertube going down together!)

FREE!!!!

Ha, Ha! I bet you were wondering where we were since the only posts since Christmas have been ALL about Emma.... Well, the truth is out... Mom and Dad store us in a box away from the fun and excersions of our big sister, but guess what?

We escaped! Now we are out of the box (almost), and lookout! Here we come!

Date with Dad!

So Dad, the Mad Hatter, wisked me away to Wonderland tonight. Mom lets me go out with the shadiest characters. Last year, it was the Lettersweater Guy, who quickly turned into the greaser and Mom still approved. This year, it was a crazy hat maker and Mom sent us on our way with kisses and no curfew... Awesome!

So off we go, in our Limo to Wonderland.

Where I played croquet with flamingoes and hedgehogs (thanks Johnny for the book so I knew exactly what this was all about!)...

and hung out with some pretty cool Alice's. This is my great friend Breeze.

Go, Cougars, Go!

Tonight was "Your Chance to Cheer" at Cannon, and all the little kids get a chance to cheer at the Varsity B-Ball games with the Varsity Cheerleaders.

"1, we are the Cougars, 2 a little bit louder, 3, uh oh, I still can't hear you..." yeah, uh oh is right!

I loved my chance to cheer... It was A. W. E. S. O. M. E!!!!