Good Thing...

Good thing I posted some new pics the other day.....good thing I have this extra spot to record my pictures and memories....

The other day, in spite of frequent picture back ups on my external hard drive, Tim's computer lost EVERYTHING and December/January (fortunately ONLY those months) were lost. :( What's frustrating is, I am a "backer upper" but the holidays divert anyone's attention... :( LESSON LEARNED.

BUT---no worries. There are more pictures to download and more fun to come.

Stay tuned!

December 2009

Ahh December.

Of course we must acknowledge you came in with snow just in time for Jamison's 6th birthday. We went forward with the Chuck E Cheese party plans and all went off perfectly. Especially with one of Grammy's famous birthday cakes....




You know I love to talk obnoxiously about my children's accomplishments...but, I got a chance to revisit some former loves recently...

Here's me an my friend Barb (right over my shoulder--short brown bob) singing our Christmas hearts out. We have known each other since Ft. Knox and our boys are "belly buddies"...we were pregnant at the same time while our husbands were deployed to Afghanistan. Jamison is a December baby, her's is a February baby. They have a LOT of fun together now that we get to hang out in Northern Virginia together--for a bit.



Now. Christmas...let's just let the pictures say it all....



(National Tree)


OH! The wonderful snow (have I mentioned how much we LOVE snow!?!?!?!)...the snow that gave the kids 3 extra days of Christmas.... It fell so beautifully and quickly. It was magical. Truly.




Then the constant reminder that babies don't remain that way forever....



But as long as we are all pretending...

Let's be super sweet for the parents'--hours before Santa arrives



But the best part of Christmas is family...





Thanks Grammy and Poppie for letting us hang out at the Rivah!

New Year?

OK. I've been miserable at keeping up with the blog. But with Facebook filling in all the gaps, it's been hard to make myself come over here and update.

But, a New Year's resolution is to see to this more. Soo....let's update a bit...

Let's start simple. I'll grab a few pics and update.

Uh. Well. Easy one. Here's Frick and Frack at the National Arboretum. I think I mentioned this before. They do a great Christmas/Holiday set up which includes......TRAINS(yes, still a very big part of our lives)




Oh, here's a pic of the rest of us after running a Thanksgiving Day Run. Tim ran further than us girls, but I swear at this moment I can't recall the difference. Rest assured, he worked off more turkey than us girls.



Here's a great one of me and my newest sis-in-law and my mom. TDay dinner is nearly on the table. Happiness all around!



Here's a pic that I'm SURE the whole family will ask me to remove--however, I love it. Shows everyone (to include a ms. retha!-stephanie's mom) playing Texas Hold 'Em

And then came December...