As you can see no wee hour partying for me this year. Littel "J" has been sick w/fever for last three days and all our sitters have plans anyway. Ahh how priorities and plans change as you get older! That's okay - I don't care. Hubby has to work a little today but should be home early in time to grill the steaks and then we'll hang out w/our boys and relax!
Wishing EVERYONE a safe, healthy, prosperous, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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My Favorite Flicks!
No particular order here on these. Just a small collection of some of my all time faves that I can watch over and over and never tire of them.
If I had to pick one it would be A River Runs Through It. I think it was just one of the movies that I "needed to see" at an important time in my own life - it sort of spoke to me in a way that no other movie ever had till that point or has since for that matter.
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Christmas Eve 2006
After having gotten back from Dallas we kicked back and opened up "The Cat in the Hat-opoly" game and made some queso. Snacking and eating and watching our San Diego Chargers on the tube made for a great Christmas Eve afternoon. After it got dark we put the boys in their PJ's and got out the books. The book reading tradition continued with "Twas the Night before Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
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This is Christmas in Dallas w/my family. We got there on the 22 and left Christmas Eve to go home so that we wouldn't miss Santa at our own house. There was a houseful at my Uncle's - 16 of us all! We had a wonderful time till a Grinch of a Christmas bug struck the family! First one of my cousin's got ill and had to go home then my aunt started vomiting then my sister, and then the darn bug just continued to spread throughout almost my whole family! The Pukerson's my cousin dubbed us! My sis even had to be taken to the ER b/c she got so dehydrated. Luckily, though, hubby, kids, my MIL and myself were the only ones that did not get ill! Have no idea how! On Christmas Eve we awoke early, I looked at hubby and said let's pack up our stuff and get the heck out! Quick as we can - I didn't want to be sick for the 5 hr drive back home! We made it! This will be one Christmas we will never forget!
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We made it back to the capitol last night, and were able to go inside to see the decorations. The boys had a blast b/c there is so much open space to run and so many stairs to climb. The first floor has these nutcrackers, tree display, bridge over the ice pond and the life size Santa statue. The boys were delighted - they especially liked the train display.
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Here is the Capitol of my home state all decked out for the holiday. We stopped by last night so the boys could take a peek at the lights.
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I admit I'm a little dog crazy. I belong to a Boxer chat group. Every year we organize a snail mail Christmas card exchange (about 35-50 people participate each year)and send each other photos of our Boxers. So these were some of the shots I took for this year's card. My dogs are never amused at photo time, but the result is I get to enjoy going to the mailbox each day in December knowing I'll be seeing some cute smooshy Boxer faces and some pretty cards. ... See my Tabblo>
First Baby's First Christmas
Mom and Dad went all out for Baby's first Christmas. A special hat and a monogrammed blanket too! And just look at that cute puppy dog sweater and all those fun toys!
There are not as many photos this first year b/c this was also the same year that mom got her digital camera. (And I didn't open it till after Santa time was over) These were all taken on an a kodak panoramic camera we used to have and then scanned into the computer. Not too bad, I guess, but things have certainly changed!
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Here's me and Jamma & Dad doing our book reading tradition! I love this time - it means Santa will be here soon! ... See my Tabblo>
Peek A Boo!
(Above and left)A little fun on Christmas Eve just chillin in the swing. Just passing a little time till Santa comes! "You can't see me!"
Below Dad and I catchin' a few ZZZ's before dinner on Christmas Eve.
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Getting ready for the holiday season! We drug out all the boxes yesterday and started to put out a little holiday cheer. We managed to get the tree out and up along w/some of our other favorite Christmas items. We even decorated a gingerbread house too! Was a good fun filled family time!
Cheers everyone!
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Taken last Sunday morning. (Nov 12, 2006) The one morning my boys sleep in and hubby is out of town I woke up early. I started the coffee and then trundled out down our long gravel drive to get the morning newspaper out of our mailbox. I looked up and realized the sun was coming up! Then I started to look around and realized how beautiful everything looked so I raced in for my camera and this is what I shot. ... See my Tabblo>
A Little Fun in Costume!
My two are the "Biker Baby" and the "Little Black Bat"
The top photos were taken on Sunday - a little fun on the Harley - a dress rehearsal for Tues night. The rest of the photos were taken last night - it was a wonderful evening except that lil bro was so tired he cried alot - notice the pic of him on the floor.
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A few more good shots from the Pumpkin Patch. My MIL shot most of these w/her camera. I had forgotten to charge my batteries the night before, and so I was only able to shoot a handful of shots, but she made sure to get plenty for me. (My personal favs are the series of three on the third row down.) ... See my Tabblo>
Haloween's past
JT's costume got passed down to lil bro JW, last year - one costume but it made for two cute little spiders though!
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JT being EXTRA silly one morning! He begged me to take his picture (as if I don't enough?) and he came up w/these fabulous poses all by himself! Do I have a future model on my hand here? Hmmmm.....
ONE big pot of homeade spaghetti.
TWO hungry toddlers.
THREE spoiled Pets waiting on the leftovers.
May I present Spaghetti 101!
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