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Why I Love my Sister

This is the Christmas card my sister and her husband sent out. I was rolling when I saw it.
I love my sister.

I'm Stealing a Post

from Tonia. I love her blog. I think it was the first blog I read. It's amazing where a google search will take you. Today her she had a fun post about your "birth song". Here's a link to the site. You enter in your birthday, or 18th birthday, or wedding day. It gives you the #1 song at the time. I thought ours were funny.

Cara's Bday song is Babe by Styx.



Brandon's is Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life. HA!



Tonia encouraged comments telling what your songs were. I'd like to extend the same invitation. Please do!

Blue Cones of Wonder

See these little suckers?

I found them on the couch with Eamon. He had an allen wrench thingy and a strip of styrofoam insulation. I asked him, "How did you make these??" They were so beautiful and coney. I marveled at his smarts.

Here's a couple videos of his explanation.








Apparently, by some miracle, when you poke through styrofoam insulation, the piece comes out cone-shaped. It's the first mischief he's made that has actually had some cool outcome.

Oh, and the Bruise?

The Buttock. Brenda wanted to know.

Loving the Homework

Well, not really the homework, but the work that ends up coming home. I hightlighted my favorite parts. I don't know if you can read it, so I'm typing the words under the picture.

This is some Thanksgiving assignment.

"I like appl pie. It's delishis. I can't wate tel Thakscgiving."

And who could not LOVE this one:

"I am Great Hunter. I shoot anamos. And I like it. I get to yous a bowanero. I go Hunting in the day."

(and the back)
"I hunt dere and buflo and olk."

Oh, and by the way, none of the 2nd worksheet is true. And I hope it stays that way.

Is Someone Stalking Us?

I found this today. Eerily and hauntingly familiar....

Eeeeek!

As this title suggests, there was a mouse.

IN MY HOUSE. Which I wouldn't mind so much, but it was dead. Which I wouldn't mind so much if I had set a trap, but no. I was rummaging through some craft crap, trying to find a marker and saw what looked like a super moldy deflated balloon. But then it smelled a little. Look at the picture and don't judge me.

Now closer.

Here it is from the bottom. YUCK...
You can see its little ears and one leg trapped beneath a bottle.

Well I was freaking out again. I made Brandon take care of it. I really didn't think that this was the kind of person I was, freaking out over pests. But here I am. I couldn't even look at the empty container with the mouse in it as he was taking it outside. I flipped. I was wearing rubber gloves. I feel a little sick to my stomach. Seriously.

Let There Be Light(s)

Some of you are really ungrateful. It seems Saturday's post was NOT enough for you. Bleh.

Here's the decorated tree. Brandon used 1300 lights on it. I was mad. Anyway, the kids helped us decorate and had a great time doing it. Eamon was especially helpful, bringing me ornaments to put on and climbing on the window sill like he saw me do. Our old tree topper was just too small for this bohemoth, so I ran to Tai Pan (that rhymed!) today and bought an oversize ornament, cut off one of the spikes and rammed it on the top. It's pretty sparkly and has some reflective craziness on it, kinda like a Christmas disco ball. Oh well.

This is one of my favorites. Brandon's Mom made this for us out of salt dough for Cam's first Christmas. I just love it! And the outfits look just like the clothes we wore around that time.

When we celebrated our first Christmases as a couple, I collected frog-themed ornaments. They are a little unorthodox, but MAN, was I crazy for frogs back in my youth. Even my Mom bought me frog ornaments. Love them!

And last, but certainly not least, is Brandon and me in a special pose, from my house to yours. Hope it warms your heart.

I Know You All Hate Me

I've been told several times. Nasty names, mean emails, I've heard it all.

I'm sorry I haven't posted. Really, I am. As I peruse my friends' blogs, and I have to wait too many days in between posts, I am thinking, 'What is wrong with these people??? Don't they know I am waiting for a post???' So people, I feel your pain. I was going to promise to post tomorrow, but I started shaking. Maybe it's because it's freeeeezing in my house right now. Or maybe what I'm feeling is the panic of a person being hunted down daily by her "friends". So here's a few pics, and I'll probably add some more tomorrow.

Tonight we bought a Christmas tree. It's rather large. So we moved our tv into our armoire to change up the room. Which took 2 FULL hours. So that's what I did tonight. And the tree isn't even decorated. Did I say mention it's almost 9 feet tall? A case of our eyes being bigger than our stomachs (or living room).

We'll see what we come up with


Okay, FINE! Here's some other pics....It finally snowed like a winter wonderland here, and the boys played all morning in it. They made a little igloo.

Look how proud they are

And look who thought it was a wonderful winter home

And in other ferret related news....Presenting: the Ying Yang Twins