beautiful

in celebration of the reason for this season.

simple.

beautiful.

true.

it was

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do over

so the boys decided that yesterday afternoon would be the time to tackle our gingerbread house.

in case you don't recall our adventure into gingerbread house making, take a quick second and take a look here.

so i'm only slightly worried about how this is going to turn out. pushing aside my perfection tendencies we dive in.

step 1

read the directions very very carefully

then....

shriek in excitement that it's actually standing up

decorate

take some pics

gush at our creation

get busted sneaking some icing

quotables:

i have a new respect for those guys on cake boss

- mac

this is the best of gingerbread house ever.

- charlie

thanksgiving

thanksgiving 2010 was absolutely wonderful. we headed to arkansas for a much needed break. for the first time in i don't know how long it felt like a vacation...no thoughts of work, no thoughts of undone tasks around the house. just being in the moment...eating great food, enjoying bonfires, four wheelers, early to bed late to rise.

i am in love with moss.







this boy knows how to start the 4 wheeler and by himself...scary





picture is not the best but a great memory


we had a second thanksgiving with my family on friday. the sad thing is i got no pictures. do you find that sometimes you just want to enjoy the moment and forget the need/desire to document. i must remember to try harder at christmas!!

miracles

shear madness + no tears+ no screaming+no whining+video game+ an incentive = MIRACLE (a hair cut)



(for clarification sake that would be a haircut for charlie not me)

memory lane

there has been a box that has been sitting in my house for quite awhile.  hubby brought home this box on his last day of employment at our local telecommunications company, 5 1/2 years ago.  like i said it's been awhile.  most of the papers are old time sheets, performance reviews, very valuable stuff ya know.

as i was going through his folders, i found this:

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

look at the date....May 1999.  it's important to note that i'm fairly confident that i gave this calendar to jay but you'll note some pretty significant dates, our second anniversary and the 'are we having a girl or boy appointment.'  so many good memories that feel like it was eons ago.  looks like i was working a lot of saturdays...i sure don't remember that.

cow's milk

last night as i'm tucking charlie in for bed he asks for  milk to drink.
me:  we don't have any milk in the house.  how about water?
char:  milk
me:  we have no milk how about water
char: milk
me; well i do have almond milk
char:   what is almond milk
me:  it's made from almonds

long pause......

c:  water please

confused

from the moment we left lawrence on Saturday night after visiting hank, charlie has been asking for a jayhawk book and tiger books.  so we ventured to the library last night and this is what we came home with.

i'm not sure what is more crazy, that these books are even next to each other or the fact that i took 20 picutres of this.