Monday, November 28, 2011

Oops

Well, we're still alive if anyone is still checking this. It has been a crazy year and I can't believe it's been a year since I've posted anything! My only defense is I got nervous about pictures online after reading a couple of crazy stories and didn't want to go through the effort of downsizing my pictures and then my computer stopped reading our camera's memory card so the point was mute. Anyways, it's December again and we've got a ton going on that I'm going to attempt to blog about so I'll remember it. :-)

To the Champaign Library staff, if you still check this a couple months later after you commented...
We miss you! Going to the library for all of your programs and constantly having new books was always the highlights in our week. Our entire library here is smaller than the dvd section in Champaign and every time we go, I remember you all and how wonderful you were to me and two small boys.

If anyone else is reading this, we now have two readers and a two-year old that is only happy if being read to. So, English books would be a welcome gift! We're not picky, but we are getting tired of our selection.

Hopefully we'll figure out the camera situation soon so I can post some pictures!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Christmas Dinner



Due to complete exhaustion of our entire family, I didn't get Christmas dinner prepared on Christmas Eve. I chose to spend Christmas enjoying my family instead of stressing about getting everything ready for a big dinner. Well, life continued to move on at it's break-neck speed this week so we had Christmas dinner for New Year's while watching the Rose Bowl Parade. It was a wonderful ending to our holiday break. As, I've created a tradition of taking a picture of our Christmas meal, here is this year's. Complete with sinful potatoes since I begged my mom to send us some Velveeta with Makenzie's birthday cake pan.



On a different note, as much as I have LOVED this break having my entire family together for two whole weeks, I am SO ready for Monday and school to start back up! I have gained a new appreciation and awe for kindergarten teachers this year. I can not imagine a class of 25-30 of my boys. This is the three of them exercising - getting a head start on everyone's New Year's Resolution. The boys have been on a sugar high since the 3rd and have kept Makenzie wound up with them.
 

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