An Interesting Observation...

"Hee, Hee, Hee! Grant has a tail!"

...was Jenna's surprised exclamation after seriously studying him while he was doing his business in the family restroom at T*rg%t.

Our Photo Shoot

Well, hopefully you have gotten our Christmas card and seen our latest family photo, but I wanted to share a few more that are posted on the photographer's blog. The individual shots of my kiddos just make me smile...

P.S. Please, please forgive me if I missed you on our card send-out. With all the moving/storing/remodeling crazyness of late, I have misplaced my address book (yes, I still have an old-fashioned paper one), so I had to try to assemble addresses from past cards from you guys. And just in case you are wondering, yes, I save Christmas cards (especially the picture kind). Don't ask me why...I mean, I don't save any other type of card. I guess I just like seeing how y'all change over the years.

Love and hugs...

Stick a fork in me...I'm done!

Whooo-wee! We're done! Three programs, 5 parties, 2 sick kids, lots of shopping, putting up our decorations and Christmas lights as well as helping both sets of Grandparents do the same...No wonder I'm tired!

But that's it! No school, parties, or plans for the next few days. Just some sweet time with my kiddos making memories and relaxing. Can't wait!

Our Weekend

It's not like we have a thrill-a-minute life, so don't ask me why I'm posting about our weekend, other than I find myself up earlier than usual, and I managed to take a few pictures this weekend and don't know what to do with them, so I'll share them here with the three people who actually read my drivel.

Friday night, we went to my neice's 8th birthday party at Going Bonkers. Fun was had by all, but no pictures to prove it. You can go down a few posts to the one about Jenna's birthday to get an idea of how it went since J had her party there too.

Saturday morning was fine and fair, so David decided to play barber and give M and G a haircut. (One of our new plans to cut back on expenses.) We (me and the boys) were all amazed at how well they turned out! Luckily, Daddy has practiced a couple of times on one of his firemen buddies.

Saturday night we decided on the spur of the moment to go to a live nativity in a nearby town that we had heard about. Note to self, next year, don't go on Saturday night. We waited for close to an hour and a half, but it wasn't so bad because after a half hour, you made it far enough up the line that you got to go into the sanctuary and could sit and watch the entertainment which was, amazingly enough, actually entertaining.

Then the walking tour began. We were all given passports that we had to keep at the ready at all times because Roman soldiers on horseback would charge up and demand to see them. We walked through the grounds and passed the Three Wise Men on their journey to follow the star, we met some shepherds at their campfire and were amazed by an angel appearing with a heavenly message. We were attacked by robbers on our journey to Bethlehem, but the Roman soldiers saved us just in time. When we got to Bethlehem, we were counted in the census and our passports were stamped. Then we got to explore the Bethlehem marketplace and finally saw baby Jesus in a stable on the outskirts of town. It was an amazing production (and totally free!) and something the kids and I are still talking about. We will definitly do this again next year. Call if you want to come with us!

Checking out the Wise Men's camels.

Jenna clutching her passport. Need to get that girl some red mittens!

The amazing Bethlehem marketplace.

The Unibomber, aka Cole, petting a mini goat.

The star of the show.

Sunday was church, a heartbreaking Cowboy game, and thankfully, a quiet evening at home. There was an old Mr. Bean movie on T.V. that we had never seen, so we DVR'd it (so we could skip the commercials) and made popcorn.

What is so funny you ask?

Why making popcorn in a Stir Crazy popper! Seriously. The kids were all lined up in eager expectation and cracking up at the popping crazyness. They were amazed to find out that in our pre-microwave youth, this is how we always made popcorn. Hilarious! Wait til I tell them about turning the knob (click, click, click) on the T.V. to change the channel.

The Dog House

Okay, I don't agree with the actual idea of putting your man in the doghouse (not exactly a picture of the P31 woman), but the actual footage inside the doghouse cracked me up. Take a peek...

Win a $500 giftcard to Home Depot!

Ok...I'm not actually giving away $500.00, but I totally would if I had the extra dough because how fun would that be to make someone's day? No, the wonderful ladies at 5 minutes for Mom are! I'm just spreading the word. Go here to enter and start dreaming about your new dishwasher, or organized closet, or Spring landscaping, or who you could give it to for Christmas. The possibilities are endless. Me? You know we never finish remodeling...

Not so Wordless Wednesday

Mini-Elvis says...

I'll have a blue, blue, blue Christmas without you~

And because Jenna can't stand not getting to do whatever Grant is doing, here is a pic of her. (I realize there is food on her face, but she is minutes away from bathtime...the water is running and she is clutching her bathtoys.)

A little bit of funny for ya...

I've posted a link to this lovely woman's site before, but here are two more that are worthy of your time. She's an intern at an inner city teaching hospital and her posts about her day to day interactions with patients are well written and often truly touching and at other times laugh-out-loud funny. These two made me laugh today. Enjoy!

Check out the first half of this post and then this one which is actually funny and sad at the same time.