After Christmas Sale!!

You have to love after Christmas sales!
What can you get at an after Christmas sale for $50 at Hobby Lobby?

300 sq feet wrapping paper

6 gift bags

24 curly fabric bows

25 sheets printed tissue paper

8 thank you cards

8 gift card holders

33 puff gift tags

6 rolls of scotch tape

5 velvet bows (3 ft long) for outside

72 Christmas card

All for $50....a savings of $175. Now that is a sale!

I'm ready for next Christmas!

What Happens in 11 Years?

1 - # of wonderful kids we have
2 - # of dogs we currently have
3 - # of homes we have owned
4 - # of birds we once owned....key word "once"
5 - # of states we have lived in
6 - # of vehicles we have owned (including Nate's hot rod...the Dental School Scooter)
7 - # of schools we have been to including H.S.
8 - # of kids we want to have - ha ha just kidding!

9 - # of vacations we should go on.....hint hint

10 - # of years Nate has been in school/training since we were married
11 - # of years we have been married

Here is a blast from the past!! Our engagement photo.

Exactly 11 years ago.

Today.

Elf Dance

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Weekly Review...Early!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

This was Grant's 2nd Christmas. He didn't care to unwrap presents....but he sure enjoyed the toys inside the wrapping. Here is a video from this past week (including Christmas). I got a new camera for Christmas so there are sure to be many more photos/videos in the new future as it is much nicer than my old camera.

Grant got a Red Wagon Tricycle which he loves - but he is too short to reach the peddles. He also got a interactive bouncy horse....which he likes to get on and off. The other hit toy this year was a Leap Frog Spin and Sing Alphabet Zoo - when I opened it he played with it non-stop for 20 minutes!

As I was waiting for this video to upload I gave Grant a bath and got him ready for bed. Then as we do every night I started to read him a book. Normally we read "Good Night Moon" but for the past couple of nights we have been reading "Hush Little Baby". If you know the book it is like a song....so I sang it to him. As I'm reading/singing the book I notice Grant's face - a big frown and he is starting to tear up. I guess Nate was right - I'm not a very good singer....and Grant just couldn't take it anymore. Oh well I guess it is back to our normal book.

Missed video

This video was taken after I completed the weekly video last night. It is kind of dark lighting but I think you can see why we thought it was so cute.

Weekly round-up

We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!

The past week Grant had his friend Caleb over for a visit. They had so much fun playing. It was great to see them actually playing together - instead of just next to each other. It is funny to think that when they first met (about 6 months ago) they would cry at the sight of one another. People even asked us if they didn't like each other. Now they are good friends who like to play together.

Green all around...except outside...

The garden has sprouted! Here are some picture of our indoor herb garden.

Here are some pictures from our Ice Stom last night.

Christmas memories

My friend Julie is doing a wonderful job of sharing her Christmas memories on her blog site - it is so much fun to read. Well today when Grant was playing with one of his diapers (thankfully a clean one) it made me think of a Christmas memory from my childhood.

When I was a child we would go to my Grandparent's house for Christmas and every year Grandma would give us underwear for Christmas. To some degree the underwear reflected her feelings about you that year....white = good, red = not so good. You know what I mean. And if you married into the family you knew you were "in" with Grandma if you got underwear for Christmas too. Anyway, when you opened your package of underwear you had to put them on your head for everyone to see (ya I know kind of weird....).

Well Grant must have found his package of underwear this year as he is carrying on the tradition.