and it's still up!

Yes, the tree has survived, 2 whole weeks now!!! Or should I say the candy canes have survived 2 weeks now! I love my tree...I will be so sad when I have to take it down...ho hum. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts...

Had a very nice birthday today. Thank you all for the birthday wishes.

Yep, I am livin' the dream baby, livin the dream...and I'm tired. Sorry, no comedy or priceless pictures today. I'll blog more another day. Off to bed (said Ted. Off to bed, said Fred...oops, I was channeling my inner Dr. Suess...OY I'm tired)

Lisa

The Tree is Up

It only took THREE HOURS, but the tree finally made it up! And it's very pretty (I think anyway) and was worth it. In case you are wondering how in the hell it could take 3 hours...well, I was enamoured by it's beauty (and slightly lower price) in the store, so I failed to look at how you assemble the stupid thing. It's a seven footer, and each branch has to be placed, on like 20 thousand different levels!! Ok, not really that many, but you get my point. And so, for three hours, I fluffed, and pulled, and yanked, and twisted, and got every stinkin' branch shaped and positioned so my tree appears to be nice and full.

And then there were the lights...oh, the lights. I think every year I have a set that is burned out. Grrrrrr. Luckily I had to enough to get us by (just don't look at the very top of my tree!). The red lights really don't show up in that picture. I wonder why?

And then there was the joy of trying to keep 4 children from eating all of the candy canes...oh the joy of the Christmas season!!! Fun times, fun times...

It's Been a While...

about a year, by my last posting date. Wow! Sorry to all our fans out there. Been keeping you updated by Facebook over the last year. But I've had several requests to go back to blogging, so I suppose I shall indulge you...

Ah, where to begin? Well, let's see...let's start with letting you know that we are all fat, happy and healthy...well, some of us are fat...well, OK, just I am fat, but we are all happy and healthy (for the most part)! We've been lucky enough (so far) to elude the dreaded H1N1 flu bug, though we've had our share of other maladies it seems like! But relatively mild as a whole.

Since we've last visited, my children have grown quite a bit! See above...this is what happens when I try to take a nice Christmas picture...sigh. I did get a couple of good ones though.

Ben is 12 now, going on 16. He's a great kid, but is getting the teenager attitude at times. I so am not looking forward to that!! He stays very active, and wants nothing more than to be bigger than someone in his class!!! He's not small for his age, but is small for his class I guess. Poor kid. Anyway, he plays football, baseball, basketball, and ran track last year, but it really conflicted with baseball, which is his passion. So probably no track this year. I can't say that I'm heartbroken. :-)

Little Greg is 11, and is still our little thinker. Always full of questions... weird, random questions, but thoughtful nonetheless! Most of the time I cannot answer him. He plays soccer still, fall and spring. He also ran track last year, but I don't think he really enjoyed it too much. I'm guessing track is out next year altogether. Oh darn. No more sitting for 4 hours to watch your kid for 4 seconds...again, heartbroken. Although is really is good for them. Oh well...

Alex is 5 this year. I'd say my "little" Alex, but I already used that title for Greg, and Alex probably is almost as big as Greg, so I can't use it for him! Alex is a mover and a shaker. Never sits still, and like Greg, is always thinking...about how he can con myself or Matt into giving him what he wants that is!! He's very artistic and creative. He started kindergarten this year. We had a few rough days the first couple of weeks, but I think he's getting the hang of it now. He even told me last night that he "just lo-o-o-ves homework"! HUH!? Alex will play T-ball in the spring. He is always telling me how he is going to "SMACK that ball in for a touchdown!!" (that would be a quote from the movie Chicken Little, he really does know it's not a touchdown...I think).

And then there is little miss thing. Princess Ellie, or BusyBella as she calls herself. And she'll let you know too. Don't try calling her Isabella. She WILL correct you. "No, it's BUSY-BELLA!" She's a girlie girl, but she likes to play with the boys too. Though she's not really rough-and-tumble. Really she's just very moody actually. But she can also be such a sweetie. She loves drawing on her Magna-Doodle, and she likes to sing and dance (again, if she's in the mood). She also likes to read books to me. It's quite entertaining actually.

Matt and I are still hanging on in the office furniture business. Matt also stays busy with running a Sunday night men's basketball league at our church, and he plays softball, and he does a lot of the running of kids to practices while I tend to the little munchkins at home!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family, and are looking forward to a nice Christmas. I got all of the little decorations out, so we are ready to put the tree up...tomorrow. I'm beat! Time for bed!

Love ya

Lisa