Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

For New Year's Eve, the boys had a party at Grandma Jackie's and Grandpa John's house. The party included staying up late, party favors, snacks, and fireworks. Both boys had a ball. Eric came home the next day exclaiming, "I had the best day ever." According to Jackie, Eric wasn't real sure about the fireworks until he saw how beautiful the colors were. Jonathan was allowed the privilege of being outside with grandpa while he was lighting them. I guess that is a perk for almost six year olds. Anna and Zachary were also there for the festivities. Unfortunately, Jaden and Jenna couldn't attend since Texas is quite a long commute.

Jay and I spent the evening at a restaurant/bar called the Pickle Park in Fridley. We went there to see my favorite local band G.B.Leighton. G.B. Leighton put on an acoustic show first. The best part of the acoustic set was when Brian, the lead singer, drew my name from the bag and then performed my favorite song for me on the sofa near the stage. So fun! The evening was fantastic and worth every penny.

Hope you have a new year filled with many blessings. Happy 2008!

Christmas Morning 2007

Belated Merry Christmas greetings to you all! Christmas was a whirlwind at our house. First Jonathan was upset that it wasn't coming quickly enough for his liking. He was so tired of waiting that he told Jay and I several times that he didn't want his presents. That changed funnily enough on Christmas morning. Just the other day he asked me why Christmas went so fast. Time is a funny thing isn't it? Both boys had a blast and are still enjoying all their new gifts. Unfortunately, we weren't able to spend any time with my family this Christmas but we really enjoyed our time with Jay's parents and Jay's sister and her family.

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! God bless.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas one and all. Can you believe Christmas will be here in about a week? I haven't gotten around to doing my Christmas cards. Geez, where is the time going? I think maybe if I work on them this weekend I can get them mailed next week. Maybe I'm not the only one who's feeling a time crunch, however, since we have received only 3 cards in the mail so far. One was from Jay's bosses at work and one was from his parents. Maybe no one is sending cards this year. Or maybe we should stop moving. :) Anyway, thougth I'd share these silly photos in front of our tree just in case I don't get cards mailed.

Out of the Mouth's of Babes

Eric, "Oh Snap!"

Cracked me right up...

Jonathan's a Girl Magnet

Jay dropped Jonathan off at school on Monday and as Jonathan was getting out of the car he heard two girls who were older than Jonathan say to him, "We know who you are Jonathan." Jay indicated that they said it in a "we heard about you from others and you are cute" sort of way. Jonathan's reply was something to the affect of "Stop saying that", but he said it with a big smile.

The Difference a Year or So Makes

I found these photos on an old memory card. They are from our move from St. Paul Como to our current house in Coon Rapids. Wow, do they look little! That was only about a year-and-a-half ago.

Thanksgiving Cousins

My camera is still broken and it appears it will remain that way. I can buy a brand new one with double the megapixels for probably less than it will take to fix my old one. The one I really want is a bit more but very cool. So in the meantime, I purchased a card reader so that I could download the photos that are stuck on my memory cards. All the new cameras use a much smaller memory cards so now my memory cards are no good. And they use different batteries or only two batteries instead of four. Oh, technology! How thee try to thwart me at every turn!!!!!!

Aren't the boys cute? Zachary is on the top left and David is on the right. Zachary is 16 and David 18. Then my little guys. They loved playing with their big boy cousins. It's sad that we live so far apart.