Happy (early) Birthday Grandma!

We just got back from a delicious dinner in honor of Great Grandma "Power". This lovely lady has such a big heart! We sure love coming to visit her and Grandpa as often as we can.

Happy Early Birthday Grandma!

We sure do love you!

What's a blog without Christmas Pictures

Besides laying down all day and taking pictures from one location, the couch, I had a pretty awesome Christmas! I just can't wait for this staph infection to heal completely! Maybe in time for the New Year!

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Thanks Honey......I love my new camera!

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And the Zoom lens works great!

Maybe next time you will just smile!

Love ya!

Gross!

Wayne and I were in Mesquite for his work Christmas party on Tuesday. We apparently parked under the wrong tree. Seriously, we were there for less than two hours. How gross is this!

My first stop on Wednesday morning was to the car wash. I was so embarrassed to even drive this car around looking so disgusting!

Every year for their birthdays I take the kids to Brushfire to paint pottery. Hayden spent a good 15 minutes or more trying to decide what to paint....a plate, bowl, mug, Christmas ornaments......We usually paint plates, but this year Hayden chose a monkey mug. The monkey was 3-dimensional. His front side is on one side of the mug and when you turn it around you see his bum and tail. It's a really cute mug. Hayden is very good at paying attention to details. He took well over an hour painting his mug and I'd have to say that he did a VERY good job!

It was fun having Gavin and Amber join us this year. We all had a great night!

Well, we had a fun night last night until Genevieve took a dive into her chair and split her brow. Then it was a little scary. She held her breath until she got so weak that she just lay limp in my arms. She was so ghostly white. It really freaked me out. Tyler was a huge help running to get me a bag of frozen corn and then some tissue to clean off the blood. Then he ran back downstairs to get her some milk so she would lay still while I played doctor. Then he ran to get the phone so I could call Dad and the doctor's office. The nurse told me to see if I could pull it open and check how deep it was. YUCK! That made my tummy churn, but I did it anyway and noticed that it really wasn't that deep. So....no stitches or visit to the doctor were needed. THANK GOODNESS! I still didn't put her in her bed for many hours so that I could keep an eye on my sweet baby girl.

Why does it always look worse in person. I swear - with the blood and the bruise and puffiness - it looked ten times worse than it does in these photos.


This is Genevieve this morning. She woke up yelling, "owie, owie, owie..." until I came in to get her. She pointed to her eye to show me where she hurt. Poor baby!

It was about this time last year that she got a black eye from falling into our desk drawers. We'll have to see if this is a yearly thing for her. I sure hope not!