Another Christmas come and gone...

But definitely one of our sweetest ones yet!

It was almost off to a rocky start. Luckily "Santa" had just barely finished wrapping presents and setting them under the tree when at 11:50pm on Christmas Eve little Miss Sammy walks into our room and scares us to death. We were nearly caught red handed, but luckily we were just finishing up on wrapping presents for friends and family.

However, she was so disappointed to have just missed Santa (wink, wink... and our hearts are still pounding at this time because we knew we just dodge a HUGE bullet). Apparently she had be trying so hard to stay awake to hear the reindeer on our roof... how sweet is that!! So after a big glass of water and one midnight trip to the bathroom she was back in slumber land. Only now when she woke in the morning there was no big present reveal... it was more like... yeah, I saw all that last night, no biggie. What a little stinker!

Of course... of all the $$ presents the kids received this year... it's the $1 store slinky's that are the hit!

These were Brooke's favorites...

And this was Brody's favorite... CANDY! CANDY! CANDY!

This probably has nothing to do with him throwing up the minute he woke up this morning... naw, it couldn't!! :-)

Whoa baby, it's been a lonnnng time!

OK, here we go... my attempt to play catch up... Scrolling down you see it was just a few posts ago that I was so proud of my new lil 2nd grader. Well as time so often does it just flew right by and we just wrapped up 2nd grade year... watch out 3rd grade. As tradition in our house here is Sam's mini shoot commemorating her 2nd grade year.

Brody stories...

I know I’m biased, but I really do think my kids are hilarious and say the funniest things. Here’s a Brody story for you... Last Sunday (May 20th) we were eating dinner with the TV on in the background turned down pretty low. We were all talking about random things and then some image flashed on the TV. Scott looked to Brody and said ‘what is that?’. Side note: we are always trying to quiz him on what things look like and what he sees and if he can make out objects at certain distances away...given his eye issues. Well, I don’t remember what the photo or image was on TV, but I remember his answer being not quite right. So a few seconds later something else appeared on TV - I think it was a cactus - and we quickly asked Brody ‘what is that?’... and he said cactus. And then a dog came on the screen and he just said dog (like the trained animal HE is ;-). And then...the next thing that came on the screen was a photo of some restaurant’s wine cellar and wine selection. So I asked,

Our prima ballerina!

Miss Sammy had her 2nd dance recital with Miss Annie's dance class. I was beaming ear to ear watching her dance her heart out. She was absolutely beautiful, graceful and completely poised. I'm so glad she enjoys dance class and can't wait to start up the next session.

Juggling it all...

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