Rowland with my homies...

Snow! We actually got snow! It was the most snow we have in 10 years! Now, I am not a big fan of the cold weather at all (I am so a beach girl!), but as long as there is snow it is always fun! It was a bit too windy for Lake to be out and about in it, and Drew apparently :-), but Harper and I had a blast! We built her first snowman and they put her picture in the Tuscaloosa News Paper today! How cool! We even still have part of the Snowman that hasn't been defeated in our yard. Ya know, if it has to be cold...it should snow...that would keep momma happy!

Now I am totally looking foward to Spring! Flowers, Easter, fun dresses, what more could you ask for? My family use to have a tradition for Easter morning. We would get up at the butt crack of dawn and go out to the Indian Mounds in Moundville, Alabama. I grew up just 5 minutes from there, which later on became one of my favorite places to camp...anyhoo...they would host an reenactment of Jesus' death and rising ontop of the highest mound there. Then we would eat cold fried chicken next to the lake and search for Easter eggs. It was really neat and I would love to do that with my own little fam now, but unfortunatly I believe they stopped doing that because the University of Alabama bought the mounds and they charge now to even just ride through...I should check on that (note to self:-) haha.

We are all doing awesome! Our new car did get rearended Sunday while Drew was driving...no biggie and not too much to fix. BUT I do strongly believe that people should have to retake their driving test when you hit a certian age. This man was much older and apparently couldn't read. Now we are not sure if he is basically blind and can't read or perhaps he really just can't read, which is sad, but how did he ever get a license?

Lake is now 9months old...wearing 18month tops. Drew says he is fat with a PH (phat), now I say big boned haha! He does the "army crawl" everywhere and I really think he will just stand up and start walking before he crawls the "right" way. He is getting up an his feet and trying to stand alone. He just started pulling up on everything and you can tell it makes him happy! He will look at you with that smile that says "Look what I can do! You guys are SO in trouble in a few months!" haha!

Harper and he play well together most of the time, but I did catch myself today saying "Both of you guys stop that!" :-) They are awesome!

Today we got a new addition to the Rowland side of the family! Lily-Margaret! Christmas will be fun this year with ALL the little ones! Welcome to the world!

Ta-ta for now!

-ash or AKA Mandy for my fam!