WHCA All Star

In everything that my husband does, he gives it his all.  And it is no surprise to me that he made the WHCA All stars.  Good job babe!

 

 

Holy Moly! She's Back!!!

I know it's been FOREVER... I even was completely ok, with not posting anymore.  Then, I changed my mind.  So, here is a super quick update!

 

Christmas:

 

Grandpa Peter's turned 80!

 



Nathan got baptized!

 

And Eli likes to play with the phone.  He will charge the play phones, and answer the real ones!  So, if you call and you here a very quite little boy say hello, it's him.

 

Nice being back!

Christmas Joy.

As much as I would LOVE to say that this is our beautiful white Christmas, it is not.  This was actually our view as we left New York at Thanksgiving time.  However, it may be my only snowy picture from this winter, so I have to include it.  We only got one slightly snowy day last year, so we are REALLY hoping for a nice snow day this time.

 

 

But, now to get on with that Christmas joy... beginning with Christmas cookies.

 



 

And our trees.  Both of them.

 





The Santa hat.  When it came time to place the star on top of the tree, we couldn't find the base.  The most important part of the Christmas tree was missing!  Bryant wanted to go buy a new star but, we couldn't find one that we liked. So, I bought a Santa hat and threw it up there.  The search for the star continues.

 



 

The Christmas card.  Saturday we dressed up the kids, sat them in front of the Christmas tree and started snapping pictures.  Here's a few... guess which one made the cut.

 

And, our Christmas picture. Bryant's height lined up very conveniently with that Santa hat... that was not planned.

 



 

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!

ICE! in November...

November started with the elections, which meant we finally had daddy back!  He spent the month of October on the campaign trail with Biden... home a week, gone a week... all month.  Finally he was home by the start of November and we kicked off the month with some family time at ICE!. 

 

I know I've gotten pretty terrible at this blogging thing.  Let's face it, it's time consuming, and I've been spending my time elsewhere.  And I know that my photo storage for the blog is about up... so soon enough I may just stop the blog all together and you'll have to follow our family on facebook.  I'll let you know when that happens.  But, until then you can still find us here... from time to time.

October in a nut shell....

Trick or Treat and leaves...

 

 

 

Oh, and Hurricane Sandy... Which gave us no power and water in our basement... all while Bryant was away... so momma had to do the clean up.

 

Hello, Hello.

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.

 

Meet, our toaster.  It was a wedding present about 12 and a half years ago.  It has worked like a charm.  Toasters NEVER last that long!  Except now it has decided to burn everything.  Right now it has found it's new home, in the garbage.  So, goodbye oldie, hello new one!

 

 

Bryant was so thrilled with himself, he won this on Quibids.

And I got  my new bag today. Hello, Hello! 

Food...

Food.  It's what we survive on.  And it's what we love.  For these kids, it's fun too.

 

10.  She ate 10 chicken wings, and was oh so proud of it too!

He said, "mom take my picture"... then devoured, and I got this.

Bryant made spaghetti and meatballs, Gracie decided to eat all her meatballs in one bite.  And she did.

And this little guy was so funny to watch slurping.

Nathan told him he was a messy eater.  Eli replied with, "I no mess.  I E-i.  E-i- E-i- Oh!"

Yum.