January 2013

Happy boy with early birthday presents

sledding/snowshoeing in the backyard

lots of sleep outs to keep mom company while she sleeps in the recliner

(the only way she gets good sleep lately)

making lots of messes

new quilt from mom

you can't really tell, but they are sock monkeys as santa's helpers

when derek and maddie get here from school they start right on their homework and jack always has to do some too. he likes to read when they do or do worksheets

constructing Valentines

he was very serious about them. and they all had to be perfect.

he would stick and peel off the parts and stick again until they were in the right places.

Maddie had a small birthday celebration

Jack's love of painting soared into high gear

an impromptu nap under the table

and a sneak peek at baby sister

December 2012

ok, im doing this the fast way:

jack decorated the tree all month

we had an awesome visit with santa. 

seriously, this was one of the coolest things I have got to do as a mom.

Jack was all, "santa! santa! santa! I know him!!"

bieber couldn't have beaten it.

breakfast with santa

Here's jack and my grandpa on Chirstmas

me and tim and baby belly poking out

jack and connor

"sharing" 

Christmas morning at home

Christmas night at Nana Codie's 

Christmas Eve at Grandma Hunny's

Other random things in December

falling asleep during a game of hide and seek

making Christmas cookies all by himself (and lightening mcqueen). 

He did a great job. 

a couple of sick days

a couple of silly days

and a few snow days

Alright, I feel like I owe you all and explanation...

assuming there are any of you out there still...

Around the end of November I got on blogger to discover the last two years of my blog missing. At first it was just the pictures from Picasa, then when I tried to fix it, it was all the posts too. Well, most of them. After several days of trying to fix it with no luck I kinda threw it in the bucket. Too frustrated to even think about it let alone try anymore. Somewhere my storage on google got downsized and even though I still have a backup of my blog on my hard drive I can't view it unless I pay an outragous amount of money every month for new google storage.

and blah, blah, blah.

anyway, I'm working on catching you all up on what we've been up to now that I'm no longer mad enough to see red. check back often and if you want to snag any pictures do it fast and know that they wont be posted on here for very long. I will be deleting the older ones to make room for the new...

i'm pretty excited to get back here. It's been a good break, but now i'm ready!

if i remember how to do any of this stuff...