Happy New Year to you all. We are having a pretty good one so far. I have just a few updates of what’s been happening and (gasp) no photos.

Victoria and I were scrapbooking on New Years Day and she was working on her own little book that I’ve given her. She is allowed to use the photos that I don’t use in the other books. I take a look at what she’s done when I go to clean up and she’s pasted an adorable picture of Aidan after his first bath. I start thinking how cute that is and then see that she has written “my new baby brother. 2 brothers is 2 to many”.

Aidan got a new years present of immunizations this afternoon. It turns out that in Kuwait there is one that they do not do which is required here so he got a grand total of 6 shots in his pudgy little thighs. Poor thing but he’s so good natured that you can hardly tell at the moment.

Chullain has been building and reading and building some more. It seems that toys which were once old such as bionicles are now new and fun again since he has his sisters barbies to wage war on with them. It’s amazing what amuses a 10 year old boy in our house.

Bo is loving life because he just got the item he spent all his Christmas money on. He bought a huge case of Naruto manga. He is just as pleased with the manga as the kids are and probably as protective of it’s well being as he is of the kids. :0)

I am thinking more and more of the future now that the new year is upon us. How am I going to decorate the new house? When do I try my next new bread recipe? How am I going to kick this sugar habit and fit into my pants come summer?? Hmmm, guess I’d better think, plan and act to figure out all of that. Onward and upward is the only way to go so I’m off to it.

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My Aunt Su is a wonderfully talented woman who knits Christmas stockings for all the family members. Aidan just got his in the mail and I thought that I’d share a few photos. Aunt Su you can copy the photos from the site or I will email a link to them on Kodakgallery later this month so you can order prints. Thanks!

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All the doors are on now. There is tar paper on one side of the roof. The exterior plumbing looks to be in. The garage door is hung. It looks like all but one window are in as well. I think that in a week or two we are going to have to ask to do a walk through as the dry wall will be ready to go up once the electrical and plumbing are finished being run. It’s exciting the see the progress every week. I feel interested in the neighbors houses almost as much as my own. I suspect that this is because I can see what is to come for our own house by watching theirs.

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Yeah snow! There was tons of wind again yesterday and about midnight it brought with it snow and about 4 hours without power. The snow was melting even before sun up but the ground was totally covered for a little while. I almost got the kids up to see it falling but with no power the house was getting cold fast and I figured that they ought to stay snuggled warm in their beds. Luckily, there was a bit left this morning when we got up and they could go out and touch it. It’s been years since we’ve seen snow. Victoria is wishing for enough so that she can go and make a snow angel. I’m with her on that one!

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Aidan with his new HUGE dinosaur that Chullain got for him. He was funny as he picked it out of the bag and hugged it.

Victoria with her new dress from Aunt Su which she obviously loves.

Here is Victoria with her new American Girl doll that looks “just like…” her and has a matching dress compliments of Aunt Su.

Chullain got these neat metal mind challenger puzzles which he has been having fun with. Thanks Mamaw and Papaw.

This also seems to have been the year of the dragon for him and he’s thrilled. He’s also thrilled with the marshmallow shooter that his Grandparents sent him which we are going to have to find somewhere to use other than the house. I can just picture the dog eating a 100 marshmallows that he’s shot at her and then throwing up all over my rugs. Joy ohh joy. Luckily he made another gun in scouts a few months back so now Victoria can use that and shoot at him too.

Aidan thinks that the Santa head mug is super cool. Unfortunately Victoria was super nice and filled it with water for him without it being washed first so now it’s in the sink. A Santa head mug will be just as cool tomorrow after a trip through the dishwasher I am pretty sure.

Me. Proof that I still exist beyond a disembodied set of hands that constantly types away at blog posts. I primped… Can you tell? :0)

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The annual Christmas P.J.’s picture is never perfection but it’s always a favorite memory trigger. The kids are so excited that Chullain woke up this morning and asked if he could go to bed early so it would be tomorrow faster. Victoria told me today as we were discussing the fact that Santa did not leave presents in adults stockings that Grandpa D.D. did not deserve snowman poop as he had been even better this year than she had been. (Grandma Sue had let us know on Monday when I talked to my Dad that he was going to be deserving of snowman poop this year, lol). Merry Christmas all. I hope that you have things to laugh over, moments where you feel the spirit and ponder and maybe just one gift that makes you cry.

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They were delivering the shingles and other roofing material yesterday when we drove by. I hope that they secured them somehow as there are 85mph and higher wind gusts today here. This place makes for some crazy wind and I don’t want it tearing my house apart before everything is nailed down.

They are working on the plumbing indoors. Also, we have a front door albeit a temporary one as our actual front door is supposed to have glass in it.

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I had to share these pictures from dinner the other night. He was funnier than he was with the cream cheese. It appears that in his book blueberry jam is better than cream cheese at least if you measure by the licking and face stuffing factors.

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Once a year our Nov, Dec and Jan birthday kids all open their gifts together. I have a wonderful Aunt that goes above and beyond buying themed birthday and Christmas gifts for the kids and sends them with the Christmas package every year. Since they always came after Victoria’s birthday and a little before Chullain’s we figured it was most fair to let them open them together the day the package comes. They are always so excited and this year was no exception.

Chullain got dragon things which he already loved and more papo knights to add to his collection (along with a papo dragon of course).

Victoria had a princess theme and got a lot of crafts to work on. She has already made a necklace for herself, her webkins dragon and several other things.

Aidan’s theme was polar bears but as you can see from the second picture all he really needed was the paper from the packages. I can foresee that Christmas is going to be a great day for him so long as we don’t clean up the wrapping paper for a few hours.

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After a lot of hard work Chullain received his arrow of light award last night. He and another boy both finished about the same time (their birthdays are just two months apart) and so their ceremony was held together. We are very proud of him. Now it’s on to boy scouting!

Victoria took this last picture so she didn’t zoom in on Chullain enough but he is being handed an arrow and his badge by Brother Parks his Pack Master.

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