Update time.

I continue to be a bad blogger, but here is what we've been up to...

Jim had another birthday and got the ever exciting slippers, cargo pants, coat, laptop part, screwdriver set and pj pants. Don't be jealous! :)

Matthew decided he needed a mohawk to go watch Jim play his intramural basketball game.

Shaquille O'Neal came to the base gym to talk to the military kids.

You can kind of see his head above everyone else in the middle.

Here he is trying to leave.

This is the closest picture we got.

(See, it really was him!)

This is a tag from a skirt I recently bought.

Megan saw it when I had it on but hadn't taken the tag off yet. She read it and started laughing.

I'm happy to say that the skirt really did seem to work.

After church on Sunday, Wesley accidentally broke my nose at church. I was coming down the hallway and someone had tossed him something. He was going backward to catch it and jumped for it. His head crashed right into my nose. It was one of those things I could see coming, but couldn't get out of the way. I heard crunching and it is shifted to the right a little. I've been to the ER and my Primary Care doctor. I'm waiting for my referral to go through so that I can see a specialist. Hopefully it can be fixed soon and heal from that point instead of where it currently is. It might not be easy to see in the pictures. Surprisingly, it doesn't hurt that bad and it hasn't really even bruised. Still...

(I hope I never need to take a mug shot...)

A few photos...

Our Christmas card picture.



(If you would like to see our letter,

leave a comment and I'll e-mail it to you.

Sorry we can't mail one to ALL the people

that we would like to!!! I'm thankful for

technology helping to keep in touch!)



The kids made gingerbread

(okay - graham cracker and canned frosting)

houses for FHE one night.




Matthew's





Megan's


Wesley's (after a cave-in)





James' truck

Our friends, the Lawsons, were visiting family and came by our house, too.

I love when we get to see them!!!





(The 2 on the right side are twins, too.)

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

(Pictures from 2004)

This link is for my friend Brooke. She entered a recipe contest and needs viewers. You should definitely give it a look! It looks like a very yummy recipe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAObVcxbnYI&watch_response

Also, here is her blog for more yummy recipes:

http://conversationswithacupcake.blogspot.com/

Just be sure to tell her I sent you! ;)

A little catch-up

My last post was a little lame - sorry! Here - I'll make up for it with pictures (because I'm lame and haven't already posted these)...

Here's the kids' halloween costumes -

Spiderman, Astronaut, Ninja and Whoopie Cushion -
complete with sound effects

(courtesy of a fart machine - not the kid himself...)

During Fall Break, we went to the Cheyenne Mtn. Zoo and the kids fed the giraffes - what a tongue!

and fed the parakeets.

The first pictures of these next 2 sets are from 2002 with some friends.

The kids, and the tress, have definitely grown!

It's Thanksgiving and I'm thankful!

I'm thankful for so many things. I don't even know where to begin.

And I wouldn't know when to stop. So, I'll just leave it at that.

(Besides, I'm too full and tired!!!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

OOPS!!!!!!

What's this? A post within a week of the last one? WOW!

Anyway, this morning, I needed to call Qwest and dialed one number incorrectly. This is what I got - "This is the nation's master directory of every type of phone sex known to man..." CLICK!!!!!

At first I thought their line had been hacked and tried again. Then I finally saw my mistake. OOPS!