Tuesday, December 30, 2008

My Dad...

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We did. I have not blogged in a few days because my dad got sick and was in the hospital. We initially thought it was from his medication that was making his heart rate very low but it ended up being that he needed a pacemaker. He is home from the hospital and he is doing very good. I got to sleep on a cot at the hospital which was horrible. I'm not a small woman so everytime I got up and down (which was about 30 times that night) I felt like the bed was going to collapse! Dad had so much fluid build up that he lost almost 5 pounds during the night which is why I was up 30 times! Oh well...he is better and that is all that matters!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas morning...






I'm going to go ahead and post picture because I have a lot of cooking to do today. Tonight we are going to my parents house. I think Alex liked all her gifts. She made a list so that what we got. I believe her favorite thing was a Light Saber! Yes my almost 16 year old daughter wanted a Light Saber. Oh well! You have to watch the video of our cat Zoi...she is so funny. Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

A full day...

Alex and I have been baking all afternoon. Chocolate chip cookies, fudge, and Paula Deen's Mystery pecan pie. I highly reccomend the Ghirardelli chocolate chips. Probably the best recipe I have ever used.
Alex's fish Roger Prodactor jumped out of his bowl and down the sink. Jimmy being the wonderful dad he is went to the Family Dollar store here in Kansas and bought a pipe wrench just to get the fish out. Well with much struggle we were not able to get the 40 year old pipe loosened. So there we were staying our last "goodby" to Roger Prodactor. He will be the most handsom Beta in the sewer.
So tonight we will watch the Grinch...last night was Christmas Vacation and today we watched Elf and of course we will open 1 gift tonight. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Love the small town life...

I have to admit after being in Tulsa and going to Owasso yesterday that I love small town life. Its quiet, simple, and easy. There is no traffic.There isn't a million people everywhere. I was glad to be home!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Our Day in Branson
















We went to Branson Saturday just for the day. We wanted to use those season passes one more time! It was so cold. When we got there the temp had dropped 20 degrees. I didn't take a coat but I had my snowman blanket that I kept tightly wrapped around my head. The rides had just been closed as we got there so Alex and Ben were forced to shop. I ended up getting sick so we went home 15 minutes before the parade started. The lights were beautiful.










Christmas with family
















On Friday night we went to my Uncle Jim and Aunt Janet's house. This was the first time in probably 14 years we have celebrated the holidays together. We had so much fun. We did a white elephant gift exchange. Jimmy ended up with a plastic poncho, I had 2 Snoopy activity books and Alex ended up with the grand gift of a HUGE picture of my Grandmother and Old Dad. My sister got my a Tulsa area fireman calender which we got a great laugh out of. All in all it was a great time and I can't wait till next year!





My Own Personal Santa!




Jimmy played Santa at our elementary school the other day. He was a little smaller than your average Santa but he was very cute!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Family Outing

We are going to Branson for the day. We have never been to Silver Dollar City at christmas time. I hear the lights are beautiful. I will post pictures tomorrow.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Thanksgiving 2008









I know I didn't do this in order but I forgot all about my Thanksgiving pictures. I know no one reads this but it gives me something to do. First of all Alex helped my prepare the turkey. We took a recipe from Food Network. It was a delish turkey.


Tuesday, December 16, 2008

I love days off...

Well we have had two snow days this week and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I slept in till 8:00 this morning. And I had a nice cozy nap both days. I'm sure I can't be so lucky to have a third day off. I am pretty much finished with my Christmas shopping. I did most of it online. I have been so bored lately that I'm rereading the Twilight series. Hope everyone is doing well!