What's on Julie's Phone 1-11-11?

It's Tuesday again! You know what that means! Time to link up with Jessica at The Lowe Family News and share what's on your phone! If you don't want to link up you still need to check it out!

Here's what's on my phone from the past week.

My fabulous friend bought me this awesome mug and I couldn't wait to use it! For those that don't know, I absolutely love anything Tim Burton and The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my fave's!



Gibby has been really into getting her picture taken lately. On this particular day it was hats and bandanas!



Last Thursday I got to go on an awesome GNO to G'nosh! 6 of us went and painted this fun tree. Don't judge to harshly please. This was my very first attempt at painting on a canvas! It was super fun and I can't wait until the next time!



Maddy got in trouble because she threw a bowl of oatmeal all over the kitchen! ( I will not be showing the photos from that because honestly it looks like vomit!) Then when I asked why she did it she screamed "I'm so MAAAAADDDDDD at you MOMMMMYYYYY!". She was then sent to her room which is her least favorite form of punishment. This picture was taken after we made up! :)


We had a gorgeous sunset here in Frisco on Friday! I had to snap some pics and send them to my hubby who was still working at the time!


We finally got snow on Sunday! The kids were in heaven! If you live here in Texas around the DFW area you know that we don't get snow often. One of my friends posted this quote on facebook and I think that it suits us perfectly!

"Snow in the South is wonderful. It has a kind of magic and mystery that it has nowhere else. And the reason for this is that it comes to people in the South not as the grim, unyielding tenant of Winter's keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North." - Thomas Wolfe in 1937

I went a little crazy with the snow pictures! I promise that I won't show them all to you! Here are some of my favorites.





Time to build a snowman!






Maddy flirting with the camera! Loves having her picture taken!



Off to build another snowman! Just Maddy and Brinley this time.




Apparently Gibby wasn't happy about the fact that Maddy and Brinley built a snowman while she was warming up inside. She retaliated by knocking the new snowman's head off! This in turn made Brinley cry. Notice the carrot in Brin's hand? She held it up and said in her more dramatic cry "Gibby knocked the snowman's head off and this is all that's left!"



It seems that Frenchie our dog wasn't a fan of snow or our snowman! This is how he showed us.


That's it for this week! So go on and check out Jessica's Linky and add your own!

What's on Julie's Phone?

So what's on my phone? Well two weeks worth of pics since I missed posting last week. Anyways, if you haven't already, go checkout Jessica's blog The Lowe Family News for this weekly linky and join in the fun!

First up we have pics of some goodies that I received in the mail from my gift swap partner Bonnie. She's living in Germany at the moment so I got some fun stuff! The swap was put on by this lovely lady!






I managed to organize the playroom before Christmas! That was a huge project. Wish I had taken before pictures.




Christmas day was interesting this year. We spent the day together just the 5 of us. We didn't even get out of our pj's! These are of the girls Christmas morning opening their gifts!






The boys taking a nap after a long Christmas day!



Big sis got to go to grandma's for a couple of days so little sisters got to cuddle up and eat ice cream!





The twins got iPod touches for Christmas! I'm pretty sure that they don't like them.



Our dog is the weirdest dog in the world! He laid flat on his back like this for at least 10 minutes!



Caught the hubby playing guitar before went out for New Years Eve! He rarely gets a chance to play these days. Hopefully he can make more time for it this year.



One of our New Years Eve activities this year was playing washers! We were also told of a game similar to it called corn hole. I am so glad that is not what we were playing.





Lastly we have a pic of me and my sweet Brinley! The quality is really bad. I've noticed that the iPhone takes much better pics outdoors!



Now its your turn! Don't forget to link up with Jessica!

William Wayne Roch July 16 1958 - December 22 1985

This is my dad and my Grandma Billy. I believe that this was taken not too long before he passed away.




It has been 25 years ago today that I lost my dad. Strangely enough one of my daughters reminded me this morning by asking me when my daddy died.

He was 27 years old with his whole life ahead of him. I was 6 years old, my sister Jenny was 2 and my brother Cw hadn't hit his first month yet. We had traveled to Houston with our mother to celebrate Christmas with family. He was going to meet us there. Early that morning my sister woke up hysterically crying. This was out of character for her. It happened to be around the time that our dad was killed in a head on collision. I still don't know how my mother got through it all.

He has been missed everyday since then. The three of us are all grown up now. Cw is his spitting image and just celebrated his 25th birthday. Jenny is 27, married and has her own baby. I'm 31 married and have my 3 girls. I hope that we make him proud. He has 4 amazing granddaughters now! My Maddy even looks a lot like him.

We love you and you're in our hearts until we meet again.

Pictures of dad growing up with his sisters and brother.