REDBERRY

I have a blackberry phone...it is red. Katelyn sees a commercial about a blackberry and starts talking to Jon about it. He says "you know mommy has a blackberry" and she replies "no she doesn't, she has a redberry" I thought that was cute!!

Christmas Part 1

Here is Heston playing Cannon's DS. Santa had to make a last minute exchange to make this 3 year old a happy camper this Christmas. Santa had originally gotten him a Leapster Game System, but once he found his cousin's DS...there was NO getting around Santa getting him one too. Needless to say, he LOVES it.

We had a white Christmas!! It started snowing in the wee hours of Christmas morning. Jon and I had our kids at our house for Santa to come. Josh woke up first and once we saw the snow really coming down, we decided if we were to get to mom and dad's we needed to get the little ones up and start getting ready to leave. We woke up about 6:15 and by 8:15 had "had" Christmas from Santa and were heading to moms. We made it to the Ridge safe and started up when we went around the first curve we knew we wouldn't make it up. SOOOO we called mom and she said that dad (who was on his way to work) was stuck coming down and Travis was on his way to help him. So we waited on Travis (who has a 4 wheel drive) to come rescue us. He could not get dad out and dad had to call a tow truck... finally about noon we had all made it to moms house and had 5" of snow...Josh built a snow man and Jon and Josh threw snow balls at each other and Callie was in heaven...she loves the snow. We then had the kids unwrap their gifts and then us adults unwrapped ours and we got done about 4...YES 4 hours of opening gifts....it was unbelievable -- we even had gifts we waited to open til later because it was just so much. The only thing that had been accidently thrown away and later retrieved from the "bow bag" were some earrings for Katelyn from Travis and Deb. We searched and searched and in the last bag we found them. Thank Goodness. I will post more pictures and more stories in the coming days, but for now this will have to do. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!!

Clerk & Master Christmas Party 2010

Here we are at the Party at THE CAR BARN

Here is Jeff (my old boss) and his wife Angie at the party.

Thought it might be nice to know what he looks like since I've written so much about him on this blog site.

Last week we hired a babysitter and went to my office Christmas party. It was fun. We ate and had a Chinese Christmas exchange. Jon ended up with some tools and I ended up with $10 cash and a box of chocolates. All in all it was a great night.

Kate has had pink eye and we've been treating it for the past several days and luckily no one else (Heston) has caught it. Heston has had a cough and runny nose, but seems to be fighting any kind of infection very well as he has not been running any kind of fever. Josh is fine...staying active with friends while out of school for the holidays.

Nonnie and Mi Jean made it here safely last Saturday and Travis, Deb and kids will be here Thursday. SNOW is in the forecast for Christmas day-they are saying a light dusting in the valleys and 1-3" in the mountains. So who knows...but the thought of a little snow on Christmas is nice.

I have decided to get a second opinion concerning my eye surgery, so I might be putting it off once again. I will keep you posted as it all progresses.

As Heston says "Santa is looking at you" so be good!! Until next time...

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth...

Josh is playing basketball again this year. He is a good little player too. He is playing starting point guard and is doing AWESOME. He is leading in his stats and leading his team, which is, so far, undefeated. We'll post more as the season continues.







While it is hard to see, Katelyn has lost her 2 front top teeth. They have been out since the week before Thanksgiving and the new ones still haven't come through the gums. She got $2 from the tooth fairy.

Again, all is fine here. I have a few more presents to buy, wrap and ship!! The forecast is calling for snow on Sunday...it is cold here and they say it will remain that way through Christmas.

Since I am anxious about my upcoming eye surgery, I am getting a second opinion and may still choose not to go through with it. Just keep praying I can come to the right decision for me!

SORRY!!

Here are the kids on Thanksgiving 2010


Here they are at the Lions Club Park in Orange, TX in November 2010



Halloween 2010

Josh- Army Guy
Kate - Witch...even though I did not like the idea
Heston - Cars Lighting McQueen's Pit Crew




Halloween 2010
NOTICE THE COSTUME CHANGES
Kate: Cheerleader (TEXAS LONGHORNS CHEERLEADER)
Josh: Baseball player
Heston: same





Kate at Disney Princess on Ice

Jon at Princess on Ice, with the $10 drink

Josh at Football Superbowl

Hope these pictures make up for the lack of posts lately. Since I have taken this new job, my spare computer time is far and few between. In October Jon took Kate to Princesses on Ice. She really enjoyed it. He took her out to dinner beforehand and when he asked her where she wanted to eat, she said Taco Bell!!

Josh had a great football season and learned a lot. He even chipped a tooth...so it was rough and tough. He lost the SuperBowl, but was undefeated until then. We have since started Basketball.

Again, we remain extremely busy.

Katelyn is really taking off in reading. She is learning so much and she loves school.

Heston is a mess - he has recently moved to the 4 year old class and seems to be doing well there. He is still laid back and goes with the flow. Our biggest challenge with him is making him take a bath....needless to say, he is typical boy and HATES them.

Jon and I are doing fine. We are excited about the holidays and so are the kids. I wrapped several gifts last night and the little ones helped me by putting them under the tree. I still have more shopping to do, and hope to get it completed tonight after work.

Thanksgiving we kept simple, meaning out to eat at Ryan's (a local all you can eat restaurant) Neither me or mom wanted to spend all day in the kitchen. It was wonderful, no cooking, no cleaning...actually enjoyed my day off kinda day. We ate, watched football and got our Black Friday plan in place. Jon and I do go Black Friday shopping and we did get just about everything on our list, so all in all it was a success. It was cold and raining though, which made me think for a minute if it was worth it, I have decided it was.

Please pray for me (us) as I (we) are deciding about an eye surgery for me. It would correct my vision, but isn't the "normal" lasik procedure, so I am a little nervous. Right now it is scheduled for January 12th. I will have to miss some days at work as well, which isn't my biggest concern, but like I said this isn't the normal procedure so recovery etc takes longer. Just pray if I am not supposed to have it that I will not have a peace about it.

Thanks!! Until next time, Cheers...and have a great holiday season!