A December to Remember

It's been a crazy month. I'm just going to post a bunch of pics to look at from this month. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I know it's going to be a fantastic New Year!!

These go in reverse chronological order just because that's how they uploaded. So these first few are from our trip to the SA zoo yesterday.

The train ride is awesome!

Logan and Ellie at the SA zoo yesterday.

Logan and the Hyena. For some reason he really likes this animal.

Logan on his favorite Christmas present from Nonny and Papa (my Mom and Dad).

Isn't it cute. It holds up to 150 lbs which means that I rode on it too!

Ellie and Grace with Jack. Yes, he's huge. He's Ellie's favorite toy.

Logan, Garrick, Ellie and Becky on Christmas at Stu's grandparents house.

Ellie and Aunt Becky.

Stu, Paw paw (Stu's grandpa), Grandma Cindy (Stu's Mom), Logan, Becky and Ellie and Garrick in front of Paw paw's garden.

Logan opening presents Christmas morning.

Ellie opening presents Christmas morning.

Sue blue with her new long brown hair. Lovely! Here are our new Dooney and Bourke purselets from Dad. Thanks, Dad!

Grace making gingerbread men for our family Christmas party.

More gingerbread cookie making.

Ellie and Grace roasting marshmallows.

Logan and Ellie's feast in front of the fireplace one night. They thought they were pretty fancy. Notice the glasses their milk is in?

Ellie as an Angel in the Thursday Christmas pageant. Since she goes 5 days, she was in the pageant twice.

Ellie as "Mary" in the pageant.

Here is "Joseph" wheeling her in the "donkey" wagon.

Yummy Christmas cookies the kids made.

Here we are in Taylor at the courthouse lights display.

I'm not sure what to say about this. I think it speaks for itself.

3 sweet kids.

Well, at least Grace and Carter are excited.

Ellie and Grace at their Christmas party for their ballet school.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Can Logan really fly?

You be the judge:Boys, gotta love 'em!!

These were taken on our trip to the Christmas tree farm in Elgin. It was a fun and beautiful day.

Thanksgiving, etc.

Hello all!

I just joined facebook tonight upon the recommendation of my lovely sister. It seems pretty cool so far. I guess I just assumed it was like myspace, which seems to be aimed at the younger sort. I already have some friends. If you have a face book page you can look me up and be my friend!

Ok, I just spent like 20 minutes trying to load my pictures in my old computer and found out that one of our USB ports isn't working! Woo hoo! Yet another reason we need a new one. Come on Patches, let's buy momma a new computer!! So now I'm loading the pictures on Erica's laptop, again, thanks sis!

School's going well. I can't believe that it's already December. I really like the idea of teaching these little people new things. Things they didn't know before. It's powerful. They're parents have said to me a few times little things they've learned in my class and it's very rewarding.

Erica and I just bought tickets for us and the girls to go to the Nutcracker! I'm excited. I hope they do well. They both love ballerinas so we'll see.

I know this is lame. I started doing this post last week. I've decided just to post it and start anew!