Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a Safe and Happy New Year. .....

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

We've had a wonderful week leading up to Christmas. The girls and I went to the zoo lights last Saturday with The Miles and Jackson families. Mondo was sick, yet again, and was unable to join us. The highlight for A was riding on a Camel and K just enjoyed hanging out with her friend D. D is my friends 6 yr old son. K has an obvious crush on him and is not shy about following him around everywhere. Mondo can't help but laugh, as many have told him how "Boy Crazy" I was growing up. I don't seem to recall. It was very cold, for Arizona, at 35 degrees. We bundle up at 70 degrees, so for this we had scarves, hats and gloves on.

The next day, Sunday, the girls and I traveled two hours down to Tucson to see my cousin Amy's son in a pageant. He was the best Shepard there.

The kids enjoyed exchanging gifts and going to our favorite place Eegees. Eegees is a must if your ever in Tucson. They have the best subs and Slushies. They're loved so much that Letitia, one of my really good friends, begged me to bring her a slushy back to Phoenix.

We had a great time Christmas Eve spending time with my parents, going to church and opening presents. My favorite part of Christmas Eve, besides candle light service, is going to a community here in town that almost everyone participates in having lights on their house. We have done this each Christmas Eve since A was born. It's a nice time to just be with family and enjoy each others company.

Christmas we spent at Grandma Kathi's with Mondo's brothers and family. Katie loves the doll she received from grandma. After Grandmas we went to Terri's Aunt and Uncle's to see all of her family and several other stops through out the day. We are blessed to have all of our family living in town. The girls were excited to come home from grandmas to see what Santa had brought, K keeps singing birthday songs to Jesus and S just goes with the flow. All in all it was a nice day and we saw a lot of people. It's to bad we have to wait till a holiday to see each other. It seems like life just passes us by and sometimes we need to slow down to enjoy more of

it.

I hope everyone had a blessed day and remembers that Jesus is the reason for the season. Take time to slow down and enjoy life before it passes you by.

Happy Holidays

I hope everyone is having a Happy Holiday season. It's been a while since I posted. We have been very busy. Last weekend my work had their adult party and this weekend the children's party. Mondo was sick for our party this year, which was a bummer, it's the one time a year we get dressed up. The girls were excited to see Santa. Katie couldn't wait to tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas. I asked her what she was going to tell him and was reminded that I'm not Santa. I'm guessing she wants something Hannah Montana. She seems to be very popular in our house. They had their face painted, decorated cookies and even had a reptile exibit where you could touch the snakes. It was a blast.

We also went and bought for a Christmas Angel at the mall. Katie didn't quite understand the concept at first. She wanted to know why we were buying gifts for Priscilla, our child's name, instead of her. It took a little while to warm up to the idea of giving to others, but by the end she was helping me pick out an outfit and toys.

We have been enjoying the Christmas music. Phoenix has a station that starts playing Christmas music 24/7 as of Thanksgiving. We've been dancing all over the house. I love this time of year!

We put our tree up this evening. All 4 1/2 feet of it. Unfortunately, Mondo is allergic to the spray on a brand new fake tree and tends to have allergies with real ones. So once again, we have are small tree on top of the coffee table. I'm hoping after Christmas to find a used tree where some of the fire retardant spray has worn off. But for now, we will still enjoy our small one.

Wishing everyone a safe Holiday Season.