Christmas 2009

This is our Christmas morning. It was pretty quiet, but good. Claire had a blast, but I think was a little overwhelmed. She found the presents she apparently liked, and left the rest sitting there, wrapped, for hours! Santa brought here a big doll house, which she has enjoyed. And Brevan loved having something to chew on wherever he turned!

A DAY IN THE MOUTH OF BREVAN

That's right, I copied you Melissa. It was so fun following Brevan around with a camera for a few hours. You can see he puts ANYTHING he can find strait in his mouth. It's pretty funny! another favorite, the diaper if he can get to it before i do

my sweatshirt strings................all the time!

my pants

his socks

his binky holder

train track

tylenol

possibly the favorite, the t.v. remote

that's right, even the blinds

dad's shoe

the bink, of course!

claire's cereal bowl

SANTA BABY

I couldn't resist having dave roll his eyes as I take more naked pictures! But how can you resist this? So cute!

just some misc. pictures from yesterday i thought were cute. don't go getting the wrong idea though, this is not normal claire!

M&M's

Just thought this was funny. Brevan's already after the good stuff.

my cake

So here is my final cake of my second cake decorating class. It was fun and I think it turned out o.k.

it's all gone

So I went a little crazy and gave myself a spur of the moment cut and color. It actually felt pretty good.

first tooth

WE HAVE VISUAL!!! If you look close, you can see our first tooth has FINALLY broken through! Yea!

My brother has just started a his own company selling men's tungsten wedding rings. I have put a link to his site (weddingringsforever.com) at the bottom of my blog. They're awesome rings at awesome prices! Pass along if you know anyone in the market.

Reading with Dad

The kids' favorite activity is reading books with Dad. Claire will sit with you for an hour and have you read to her.

We had so much fun on Halloween this year--especially Claire! She loved every minute of it. She pounded the pavement for over an hour with her friends, Liam and Penelope. And when she got home her pumpkin was too full and heavy to even carry! The next morning she asked if she could go trick-or-treating again. How fun! And I got my joys out of spooking a couple kids with our yard. I have to admit it was pretty cool. You can't tell from the pictures, but we had coffins, and mummys and pirates, and fog and other stuff. I love it!

the letter "s"

So my friend tagged me with the letter "s" and here is what I came up with

SHEARS: I couldn't live without my hair shears! It is my way to be social and hopefully make people feel better when they leave my salon.

SASSY: Those who know me, this is probably the first "s" word that came to their mind!

SODA: Can't live without the amazing Dr. Pepper! It's my security blanket with 2 crazy kids!

SISTER: I love being the big sister. My family means everything to me. I miss them being so far away!

SUPER SAVER SHOPPER: I love to shop for the best deals and I'm always so proud of myself when I find the really good ones!

I asked Dave to come up with "S" words that described me and here is his list. How good of a husband do I have?
sounding board, smart, savvy, sober, super, strong willed, scrappy, stupendous, sensitive of others needs and feelings, superb, suprising, service oriented, sharer (that really a word?), selfless, slender (love is blind!), spontaneous, squatter (living in china), suave, sweet, swift, survivor.
It got a little out of control, but he's funny!

my cake

So i've been taking a cake decorating class, and last night was our final class for this course. It turned out better than I thought, so I thought I'd share. I forgot to take a picture before I took a bite out of it! woops!

claire's eye surgery

Claire was such a brave girl today for her eye surgery. She had a stye that needed to be removed. Nothin too big. But they did have to cut the inside of the eye and the outside and scrape a bunch a gunk out. Ick! But things went well and she is enjoying Dora on the couch right now.

my first ballet recital

Who says 27 is too old for yoiur first ballet recital? One of the young women held a talent show for an activity and I thought I would be the comic relief! I did a water ballet piece to the "Nutcracker." If I must say, it was the hit of the show!

Halloween Parade

Claire had so much fun "marching like ants" as Claire would say, in our neighborhood Halloween parade. We got to follow the fire truck and it even parked by Claire's house! Her and her little friends had fun dancing and singing on the back of the truck.

rock the hat

this is my pal Jerri, me, and my cute beehive mckell rockin the hat