330 Days and Counting

I love Christmas!! I love the hustle and bustle, the decorations everywhere (although I don't like to see them before Halloween), the way my house looks with Christmas decorations, the chance to get together with family and friends, the joy in my children's eyes when they see Santa and the messy-haired laziness of Christmas morning! To be quite honest, part of the reason it has taken me a while to get back in the blogging habit is because January is a very hard month for me. I love to be "busy" and it seems like January is always a "less than busy" month for me! So, I have decided that blogging about Christmas late is my way of keeping the season alive. Don't be surprised if you see a few Christmas pictures float to the top of the blog in the middle of summer! We had a great Christmas...although I wouldn't know a bad one if it, well, you know the saying...I am including a few pics (assuming I can remember how to do it) and the memories that go with them!


Each year (except for one) the kids have decorated their own Christmas plates. This year they really enjoyed getting to eat on the previous years and laughing about thier funny drawings.

Kendall's plate is "one of those cute things you think you will never forget and yet, as Mother of the Year, I can't for the life of me remember what it is." You can bet I will be out in the shed tomorrow pulling it out. Mason's is "a Christmas Roller Coaster with Rudolph" Obviously.






I love the Christmas Tree on
Christmas Morning.



The best puppy in the world! All the love and
affection of a real one with out the feeding, walking
and messy little cleanups!
Plus, he only barks when you touch him!

Even with the multiple list changes, Santa did not
disappoint with the "Wight Saber." Santa was
even smart, kind and sweet enough to bring
one for Daddy. What good is a "wight saber"
without having someone whose arm you can
make melt away?? Santa deserves a raise or maybe a day off,
or maybe a massage, or maybe just a long, uninterrupted hot bath!

Kissing Cousins


Little Miss Server


Sweet cousins in their sweet jammies from Aunt Beth

This woman (my mom) makes the best mashed
(I mean, CREAMED) potatoes ever! After
watching her make them I realized it is a good
thing we only have them once a year!


The Paul Family in front of Mom and Dad's house.
This will be the last (and the first) family picture
in front of their house. The city is taking the house
to expand the highway (or so they have been
saying since I was a Junior in High School...but
supposedly this really is the year.)
(Anybody need 2 elderly roommates???)


My mom doesn't smile much in pictures, she'd rather look at someone that is in the picture. Well, we have plenty of pictures of the side of her head. So, in an attempt to get her to smile at the CAMERA, my children were saying, "Good Gwief, Eful" (Good Grief, Ethel) Yes, that is her name...if you know her you know there is no disrespect and only truth in being able to say that to her face and actually get her to laugh...although not at the camera!

When I went through to find my favorite pictures, I found over 40...so consider yourself lucky that you only saw this many...There are still 330 days left to sneak them in!!