Birthday celebration

We celebrated Joseph's 1st birthday with family. He has just started walking and was showing off for everyone. He loved opening some of the gifts, but was more interested in the camera. He ate every last piece of his cake and was begging for more.

Festival of trees

Our Thanksgiving tradition has been to go to the Festival of Trees. We enjoyed storybook characters,pretty trees, crafts,dancers, and fishing, but our favorite this year was the magic show that captivated the children. It was amusing to watch for us adults.

Thanksgiving time

First, Unfortunately I did not win the Harvest, but they were on sale, so my loving husband got me one for Christmas anyway - yeah! Can't wait to put it to use. We enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving at Stacey's dad's house this year. We didn't eat as much as we wanted too and didn't stay long enough for seconds, but I'm sure our stomachs thanked us. Black Friday treated us well. We were able to get what we wanted online so there was no early morning craziness for us. Hope you all got what you wanted and that it ended up being worth it.

Christmas present

We're not big on getting expensive Christmas gifts for each other. This year, however, there is only one thing I want (within reason) called the Harvest. It's a great product to conveniently store and rotate your canned goods. I dread putting my groceries away and I believe this would take the frustration out of it. Mark thinks he wants to get this for me, but I don't think he needs to spend the money. I'm posting this in hopes to win myself one instead. You can try to win too (or other great items)by going to www.shelfreliance.com. Good luck, and Merry Christmas.

Monkey Buziness again

The kids earned a trip to Monkey Business again. This time the rock wall was open and even Mark and I gave it a try. The climbing isn't bad, it's the repelling that's scary.

Halloween 2009

I don't think the costumes were a surprise this year. Taylor as Hannah Montana, Dani as Snow White, Sam as Spiderman, and Joe as a lion, long enough for the picture.