Christmas (late)

My friend Kara just emailed me and asked if I'd been too busy to blog since it's been a couple of weeks. The answer is yes, and no. Nothing really important has been going on. However, if I try to do anything other than pay attention to the kids before they go to bed, they get crazy and tear the house apart. So, I've had two weeks of fairly well-behaved children, a mostly clean house and no blogging. The only reason I've even been able to check my email is because I do it on my break at work.

The other reason is a friend from work just introduced me to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I've been enjoying them a lot, I'm now on book 3. Anyone who knows me well, knows that when I have a book to read, I pretty much ignore everything else. I'm actually pretty proud of myself that while I've been reading these I've still taken care of the house, meals and helping kids with homework.

I'm going to upload pictures from Christmas to Costco's website. If any of you want an invitation to see them, let me know and I will send you an invite.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Christmas Eve

When I loaded the memory card onto my computer there were over 400 pictures on it so it's a little hard to know where to start. I forgot to show my mom Christmas pictures while we were in Utah so I guess I'll start with Christmas Eve. Unfortunately a lot Christmas Day didn't turn out because Jeremy wasn't paying attention to what the camera was focusing on. How about a leg instead of a person or maybe a chair? So, while going through the pictures and teasing Jeremy was fun, they aren't really worthy of keeping or posting here.

For Christmas each of the kids got bikes. JDs is too big for him and Sariah's is too big for her but she fits on JD's just fine and we have a small one that's perfect for him that Sariah used to play on. The bikes were too big to go to Nana and Gramp's house where we spend Christmas Eve so Santa gave each kid a post card with a picture of their bike and a note that it was waiting for them at home.



Christmas Eve we went to Grandma and Pop Musser's house to open gifts and spend some one on one time. It's nice to spend some time with them and it's a tradition that we've grown to look forward to over the years. I tried to get a group picture but the kids were not in a picture taking mood. Sariah got some makeup and she and Becca had a lot of fun with it. Grandma and Pop took Jeremy and I out to BJ's for lunch. It was nice and very yummy. Thanks Grandma and Pop!

Aunt Lori got JD a little dump truck that has a bobble-head driver. You push the driver's head and the truck goes forward, stops and dumps out
it's load. It's really funny and JD loves it. He also got some cars, which he enjoys taking out of the little storage container he got, lining them up and then putting them all back (or leaving them for us to find in surprising places, like my bed.) I don't remember what all the girls got and I'll post more later. Becca got a walkie talkie, which we need to buy batteries for. Jeremy got some Kings stuff, football collector pins and a gift card to Lowe's. Hopefully now we can finish the bathroom. I got a cute new purse and Lori got us some cute place mats with snowmen on them. Grandma seems to be feeling much better now and I'm so glad that we were able to get out and enjoy ourselves.