This and That

We have been busy doing nothing.  It seems there are lots of little things that need to get put away, fixed, thrown out…I have been getting ready for school to begin again.  Get ready for some penguins!

I always hate for our photo cards to sit in a basket so this year I added them to our little friend.  Now we can see everyone throughout the day. 

 

 This has been the hotspot for the last week.  Ryan had to take a day off because his finger hurt.  That’s nothing but ridiculous!

 

Ryan organized our shoes.  This is our life: notice anything wrong with all four pairs of flip-flops?  Truth be told, I have a pair of my own that I got this summer.  I think I wore them twice.  I have searched the house and can not find one of them.  Betting it’s the left one!

 

 Gramma and Grandpa got Ryan some new friends for Christmas.  We’ve watched them for about two hours today.  This one is way better than our last one.  It lights up in different colors and you can see them better.  These are bigger and busier ants too.  Too much fun around here!

The Long Christmas Post…Have a seat and Stay Awhile!

 We had a wonderful Christmas this year.  Auntie Tessie joined us for the fun and it was great.

Santa enjoyed his cookies.

 

 Ready!

 

It looks like one of those reindeer doesn’t like the end!

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Finally!  His own mitt for the ‘right’ hand…

 

quickly stolen by his brother…

 

 and back on the right wrong hand!

(old habits die hard here)

 

 

The beloved Pillow Pet.  He’s talked about it for months and months.  It’s my own fault for letting them watch a cartoon in the morning!  Those advertisers are good. 

 

 

 

 

 I’d say for ‘medium’ he did pretty well!

 Tessie outdid us all with Giants World Series baseball cards!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Okay, so this isn’t too bad!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Nascar’s cutest driver

By late afternoon it had grown!  Daddy had a few more boxes in the garage!  The good news is that it is so gigantic it can’t stay in the house…and Daddy likes it…so I may get that bathtub out of my garage and into our closet bathroom in 2011!

So the houses are put away in the garage, the tree is down and out by the recycling bin, the house lights are down, and Mommy says, “ahhhhhhhhhhh!”  And goes to bed.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

 

Okay, so this was the morning before Christmas…  I decided we should make cookies for Santa before we went to Gramma and Grandpa’s and let’s just say that turned out to be a brilliant idea!  By the time we got home everyone was exhausted and Erik had a meltdown like no other. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gramma’s was quite festive!

 

 

 

 Gramma is way ahead of me with the carolers.  Aren’t they fun?!

 

 

 

 

Ryan finally figured out the present on Christmas Eve is always jammies. 

 

 

(No picture of Erik and his jammies because of previously mentioned meltdown.)

“Dear Santa,

I have been very medium this year. Please bring me a slot car, pillow pet, train Lego.

Ryan

The carrot is for the reindeer.”

 

 

 

 

Just wait: