We've smiled
We've played cowboys in Momma's boots

We've licked utensils :)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Delayed

Good morning all - it's Christmas Eve :) Poor Grampa (L) is headed to the ER. Please pray for him! He had surgery last week and now isn't feeling well at all. He had a rough night and now is headed to see his doc. Fortunately his doctor is doing surgery today, so they will hopefully see him or his "team." We'll do Christmas Eve with Granny and Grampa once Grampa is feeling better.

Eve Eve

Hey all! Can you believe it's Christmas Eve tomorrow? WOW - that's nuts... The boys have been counting down the days so we've known it was comin... :)

I grocery shopped today and survived alright. It wasn't actually as busy as I dreaded. The kids are at Nanny and Papa's, probably out on the ice now. Mikie couldn't wait to get out there. When we first got there, he went to the lake while I chased Chloe to the neighbors yard where she proceeded to "leave her mark" and run back home. Lil' turd!

Nothin like this "big turd" here named Bean though. Just once I'd love for her to carry the groceries in. I mean come on, she follows me back and forth to the truck, even knocks the bags over, can't she just pick one up? She's getting shaved tomorrow - so the festive holidays will be spent with "Bean head." :)

I hope you guys are all doing well - we'll show ya some pix soon! Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

Recent Pix

we did some goooooood sledding yesterday! the biggest sledding hill i've ever seen!

Jack and Mol helpin Daddy make some goodies...

i love her in this outfit :)

I'm in a Calgon take me away sort of few minutes, but hopefully the yelling and crying and whining will end once lunch is on the table! Jack is mad at Mikie. Molly is mad at Jack. Ohh, now Jack is telling me I put my boots in the wrong spot and they made Mike trip. CALGON!

Rarest

Jack workin' hard at his Kindergarten Christmas party last Wednesday :)
Mikie being, well, Mikie...

This is evidence that our dog is STRANGE. Amongst many other idiosyncrasies, she will not eat fruits or veggies. We ran out of dog food the other day and so I gave her some leftovers to tide her over. As you can see, she was selective in what she ate - even though she was starvin - she left the water chestnuts, cashews and veggies...


and here is Molly's solution to help the "dog food shortage" problem...

Sending Sideways Christmas Cheer :)

our tree + the boys singing

Perspective

I was wanting to write a blog post about how rare my dog is, but my mind has gone other places. I was just reading someone's blog that I've never met (she became a follower on our business blog so I was curious to learn about her) and was driven to tears. I tell ya what, reading about the loss of a child is like too much to bear. My heart goes out to these poor people - losing their precious baby boy at 15 months old. He choked in the church nursery. Ohh, my heart just broke for them. Sorry, I know that's really depressing, but ya know -what a reminder to how we take our kids for granted. I certainly do. This sad, sad story was good cause it gave me perspective. Lord Jesus, please keep watch over our kids...