1/3/08

Jared dropped Kenzie off this morning as she spent the night with them. She always loves to go to their house and have fun with them. I took her to school early as she is now on school patrol, which she is really excited about. After I dropped her off, I went to dad's and took his tree down and put away all the other Christmas decorations. First I had a cup of coffee and a couple of cookies with him and we watched the weather channel to see what the day would bring. Cold...Cold...Cold but at least we had sunshine. Went to get a few things at the store and found alot of Christmas bargains for next year. Did a few things around the house and it was time to go get Kenzie. We got home and played four games of UNO Attack. She won 2 and I won 2. Now we have to have a playoff before bedtime. Kenzie called me downstairs at about 5:30 and she had Chunky Soup made and on the table. She had placemats down, drinks on. Everything was set up so nice and it was so sweet of her. She cleaned everything up afterwards too. She must take after her Aunt Kimmy!!!

1/2/08 Happy New Year!!!

Well it was a busy Dec. with all the birthdays, shopping, parties, niece, Sara's wedding, etc. Now hopefully with the New Year here I will be able to be more regular a my blog. Thanks, Kimmy, for organizing all my pictures. What a big job that was as they were so messed up. A big thank you again, for doing all those dishes last night and for the yummy mashed potatoes. You are always such a big help to me. We had such good family times during the month of Dec. Here are many of the pictures I took. Today was a special day for me as Jacob asked last night if he could stay here at Nana's. We had a fun day, going out to breakfast, visiting grandpa, playing, picking Kenzie up from school, then playing some more. He is such a good boy, and I love how he comes up to me and sits on my lap, then says he loves me. Kenzie told him she was sad because he didn't want to put a snowsuit on and go outside to play with her. He looked at her and said, "Don't be sad, I love you this much". He was holding his arms out real wide. It touched both of our hearts. I forgot to mention, last night I read to Jacob and then he went to bed so good for me. He asked me for a drink of water, so I filled his sippy cup with cold water from the water cooler and handed it to him. Somehow, I didn't have the top on right, and poor Jacob got soaked. His pj's, the blankets, pillow and mattress. I took him out to lay on the couch by papa while I threw everything in the dryer. He probably won't ever ask me for a drink of water again. He sure was a good boy while I cleaned up the spill.

Here's pictures of the new furniture as requested...

The furniture arrived this morning. It looks so nice. The table had some scratches in it so they are exchanging it when they bring the server. I still have lots of room for my picture books in the end table so I'm very happy about that.

Here's the wood!!! 12/26/07

Well here are the pictures of the wood. As you can see it was lots of work!!!
Thanks Jared and Kimmy for all your many hours of hard work. We love and appreciate you. Thanks to dad for his many hours and hard work too! Can't forget to thank you too, Bruce, for the night you helped Jared cut up that big pile of wood while we had to go to Fred's birthday party. You are all loved and appreciated. Thanks to Vikki and Melissa for helping watch the kiddos so Kimmy and I could stack the wood. Mucho love to you. Boy are we ever glad that job is done. I also took a picture of the two rows of wood stacked the width of the shed, but somehow I got my feet instead. Don't know how I did that one. I will take another picture of it tommorow so you can see the rest. Bill worked so hard and I am so glad he can come home now and not have to run outside to split wood.Nice talking to Jared's mom on the phone today. I can't wait to try the shaker truck myself and enter the contest to see who can get it to go the farthest. Sounds like fun. I miss my boys. I know they are in good hands with Grandma and Grandpa Russell though.

12/13/07

Well it was sure a fun week. Kimmy, Jared and the boys went to the Christmas Store with us. It was so much fun watching Jacob look at everything. The live nativity was wonderful. First we sat in church and sang Christmas carols and then walked through our journey to Bethlehem, withour shepherd leading us. We had to be careful of those mean Roman soldiers. We went through the marketplace with all the merchants selling their animals and items. There was even a camel for sale. Our shepherd said we must hang on to our money for the journey though. Finally we came to the inn. We were very tired, but Kenzie and another little girl knocked on the door and the inn keeper said there was no room for us. He sent us on to a stable. There we found Mary, Joseph and the newborn baby Jesus. What a journey it was! We went in to warm up and had drinks and cookies. This is our yearly tradition. Since going once, we wouldn't want to miss it now. Kenzie did a great job on her gingerbread house. I was very proud of her. Kimmy, Jacob and Adam came over today and it was a joy having them for company. Later Melissa and Bruce dropped off Hailey and Max for me to watch. We had lots of fun and the kids were all very good. Kimmy picked up Kenzie from school for me and she and Jacob helped stack wood. Jacob was a really good worker. He loaded the wood on a sled and them pulled the sled over and unloaded it. I couldn't believe the size pieces of wood he could pick up. What a helper. Thanks Kimmy and Jacob. Kenzie has also been a very big help with the wood.
She can keep right up with me. It must be from all the pull ups she does in the basement. Thanks for your help too Kenzie. Jared helped Bill cut and stack also. Thanks Jared. Great job. After that we decorated the cookies Kimmy had baked for me.
A great big thank you again Kimmy. Jared, Kimmy, Jacob, Kenzie, and I had fun decorating and it went really fast. It was such a fun day. Loved every minute of it





















































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