Christmas Eve

"... Tiny Tots with their eyes all a'glow

Will find it hard to sleep, tonight! "

We had a delicious meal and a wonderful time at Chris's folk's house this Christmas Eve.

Breakfast With Santa

*Bria-isms"

Just had to quickly share some funny things our newly turned 5 year old has said lately! I still hope to post more pics from her birthday soon... I'm waiting on a few pictures.

1. Last night as I'm tucking Bria into bed she mentioned that she and her two friends were "discussing, how babies come out of their mommies". She said "Nami is so silly! Do you know where she thinks babies come out?!?" I said "Uh where?" She then pointed to her mouth and told me to guess. "Mouth?" "No, guess again" "Tongue?" "Yes, but she was just joking. I told her and Hailey that I know how babies really come out!" "You do?" I asked, "How?" "God helps them out!" Bria declared. Good answer, Bria!

2. The other day, Bria tripped and almost fell but she caught herself in the nick of time.

"Whew, that was close" she said "Or else I woulda been walking with God!"

Emelie had to ask her twice to repeat what she said because she couldn't believe Bria had said that! We're still not sure where she got that saying!

3. Bria and I were watching "Nester the Long Eared Donkey" on TV the other night. It's a sweet children's Christmas story made by the same production company that makes "The Little Drummer Boy". Nester, is the donkey that Mary rode into Bethlehem on. Bria wanted to know who that man was with Mary. I answered that that was Joseph.

"Oh, he must be her second husband." Bria said

"No, Joseph was Mary's first husband" I patiently answered.

"But, what about God?" she asked

I stumbled and mumbled through that one and ended up saying that it was a good question for her and Mommy to ask a priest someday soon. Aaaack!

It's CJ Time! :-)

Since the next post will be all about Bria's birthday...
I figured I'd devote a little time to CJ today. :-)
Here are a few recent photos of what he's been up to lately:

CJ loves copying his sister... and cuddling with her (when they're not arguing ;-)

He's getting big - doesn't fit in his old baby swing or tub anymore...

He can feed himself...

And he loves all kinds of sports!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hi Everybody, I hope you all had a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving. We did... for the most part even though the kids got hit with a nasty virus and now me, Chris and Emelie are fighting hard not to get it. We had a small group for Turkey Day. I cooked (althought that's NOT why it was a small group ;-)


Here are a few pics of our day... CJ wasn't feeling good so he's not in this group of shots. I'll post some CJ photos next post.

Happy Halloween!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!
We'll need a few days to recover from our sugar coma! haha

I know... It's been FOREVER since I posted!!

Hi Everybody,

It's been way too long since I posted
anything here on this blog. Here are some photos of the past two
months. I'll post more again later. :-)

In early September, we joined Mommom at a fall festival.
The kids especially loved the miniature ponies.



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In early October, Emelie and I joined our previous neighbors for a trip to the zoo! Here you can see Meredith, Bria, Owen, and CJ (in the white hat)

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Here are the kids again. I thought this was a cute pic of the 5 of them. Bria and Meredith are the same age, CJ and Sean (far left) are the same age, Owen (blue shirt) is between the girls and the younger boys in age. They all get along great!


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Some good clean fun w/Bria.
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Emelie's sister came to visit at the end of September!
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Here's the float we entered into our Homecoming parade for our 25 year HS reunion! haha That's me and Emelie sitting up there. Bria and two other little girls are sitting in front of us but you can barely see their heads in this photo. The final photo is of Chris and me at the reception Saturday night. We had a great time! We did a slide show too which was a big hit at the reception. Special thanks to Chris's father for loaning us the projector! :-)