Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy 2009!

It has been a busy last few weeks. Although I complain a lot about them - I do enjoy the holidays. But I also breathe a big sigh of relief when they are over for another year.

We had a very nice Christmas. We went to my mom and dad's on Christmas Eve as is our tradition. We had a few presents for the kids, ate chili and a lot of sweets, and had a good time just being together.
On Christmas Day we stayed home. The boys didn't get up until 8:30 or so - believe it or not. We lazed around and enjoyed the day. My parents and sister came by later in the day for a short visit.
Around 8:00pm Christmas night - Michael, Taryn, Brady, Hunter and Autumn arrived. We had a nice visit and we're glad everyone could make it. We took a family picture which I posted a few days ago. They went back to South Dakota on Sunday afternoon. It has been very quiet around here since then.
Brad has been working and the boys and I have mostly been hanging around the house. We did go see the movie "Bedtime Stories" with Lucia, Sabrina and Marissa on Monday. It was cute. The weather has been in the upper 50s for the last couple days - so boys have spent a lot of time outside. I am very glad that they haven't spent their whole Christmas Break on the computer. Alec has gotten very good on the pogo stick he got from Gram and Gramps and Jason has been riding his new Ripstick. (He already was very good at riding it. His old one just got run over by a car.)

Here is the front and back of the calendar Alec made me for Christmas. I like Brad's gray hair and how skinny I look ;)
Happy New Year to all!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Family

Our family




Trent and family

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Snow...

I am sitting here watching it snow and thankful I am at home.
The kids are out of school due to the snow and Brad is working from home.
Alec's spelling bee was supposed to be this morning. I think he was actually a little disappointed that there was not school today. Not sure when they will reschedule it for. They only have 3 more days of school until Christmas break.
The boys also had a snow day last Wednesday. At this rate they will be going to school until mid June.
My last day of work on Friday was kind of sad - but I am not sad today! This is my official first day of 'retirement'. And what a wonderful day to be at home!
I went to Warrensburg yesterday to meet with an advisor and get enrolled for classes. School starts January 14. I have one class on Mon, Wed, Fri and one on Mondays only. I am really looking forward to learning more about photography. I did find out that I will need a new camera - darn! ;) I am really good with that except for the $$$.

Happy belated Birthday to my 'baby' brother!

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Other big news this week.....

Alec won his class spelling bee and will be in the school spelling bee on Dec 16. He is very excited!

Thanksgiving

We took our annual trip to Pineville, LA. Brad's parents are always kind enough to have us all there for Thanksgiving. Normally, we go, as well as Brad's brother Bryan, his sister Tami and their families. Bryan and family could not make it this year. Brad's other sister Teresa and family usually have other plans.
All of our boys have fun playing together over the long weekend - and the rest of us enjoy visiting and eating :)
Here are the boys in 2002 - Alec, Seth, Trevor, Jason and Ryne.

And now - 6 years later.....(Trevor couldn't make it this year)

Here they are acting silly with Aunt Tami looking at the Christmas lights.


It seems to have taken me a week to get caught up on everything - and I am not quite there yet. This coming week is going to be busy - but after that I guess I will have a lot more time! My last day of work is December 12. That day will be exactly 25 years from when I started working in the retirement plan business.