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!

A couple funnies

Since I'm a bad blogger, I'll just do another one now and then we'll see when I post again...

Here's a few funny stories from the past few weeks. There was a school fundraiser night at Skate City and there are arcade games there. They boys have played roller hockey there and the twins were excited that "the games would be on" since they aren't during hockey. What they didn't know was that you needed money for them, apparently, so they were sad about that. Well, a boy in Matthew's class had some money and put it in the "claw" machine to get them a stuffed animal. He actually got 2 in one try! Then Megan somehow had a quarter and got another one. All this was after Jim was telling them not to waste their money in it - you never get a toy...

Then we went to Sonic and ordered 4 ice cream cones. There were some upset comments about that being all they were getting and how Matthew wanted "an M&M thing." We get to the window and they tell us that their ice cream machine is only making really soft ice cream and asked if we wanted a Blast or something for the same price. They were really apologetic, the kids were excited. Jim said, "Why can't I teach my kids ANYTHING tonight?!?!?" Fun times!

The kids are now on fall break and on the last day of school before then, the boys were not even home 10 minutes and James said, "I'm bored. I need some hard math problems." I found some for him, he didn't finish them, and he hasn't requested any more, but STILL!!!!!