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Oh yeah....they're coming. You have been warned. Those oodles of holiday pictures are on their way.......right after I sleep off the divinity and brownies I ate for dinner and erase the 12 hour car ride home from my memory.

A Taste:

(a few of the trees in the neighborhoods near our home)

Dear Austin,

Thanks so much for the Fall. You are a bit late, but whatever. It's all good.

Yours Truly,

Sandra

Just a Stinkin' Cute Picture

SHE wants to wish you a Merry Christmas. We are posting this in case you are one of the very few who did not hear her SCREAMING that song from the bathtub this evening.

The Purrfect Gift

See this?

It is a little piece of heaven. Don't believe me? Ask her.

For the last 6 months, she has been sharing a brush with the dog. The D-O-G for goodness sakes! Mom and Dad lost the old feline brush, and failed to remember to grab one at the market, so this poor soul shared a pet brush with the likes of a
K-9. Sheesh. Just don't tell the other cats in the neighborhood.
It was $1.99 at Walmart, and it the best Christmas present this drooling purr box will ever receive.
Merry Christmas, Avery. You are Welcome.

Riverdance....sort of.

Our daughter has started a holiday tradition of having a dance off with us each night before bed. Turn on the Christmas music and watch her go. Mom and Dad usually last about 30 seconds, but Kaelan...oh that Kaelan. Her batteries seemingly never run low. Look at the intensity in that face! The force in those moves! This is serious dancing. Seriously scary.

P.S. Though it appears I filmed this from inside a honey jar, the yellow hue is simply my inability to switch the settings on the camera. I was obviously too worn out from bustin' a move and competing with this crazed machine in a dance off. You will forgive me after you see her go.


Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing

This is only a test....

This is a blog test for Suzanne, Tricia and Jeana....just to make sure they are indeed keeping up with my blog. This is only a test. We will return to your regularly scheduled posting at a later time. Thank you for your cooperation.

Honey Bunches of Toes

Kaelan delights in picking out a special cereal each time we go to the grocery store. I find it quite comical that her parents sneak "healthy" boxes of Captain Crunch and Honey Smacks into the cart, while she is limited (and thrilled) to choose from items that actually contain some form nutritional supplement. A treat cereal to Kaelan is one with the word fiber in it....yuck. However, lately we have allowed her to get things such as Natural Oats or Honey Bunches of Oats. She is in hog heaven! We do tell her that when she grows up, she can get grown up cereal like us. Good parenting.





Recently, I left Kaelan to enjoy a heaping helping of her new box of Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds....(I guess the big almond change up came as a walk on the wild side). After leaving the kitchen for few minutes, I came back to find her eating a way, but stopping every few bites to remove something from her mouth. She had that disgusted "qrissle in your meat" look as she pulled the foreign object from her mouth and placed it on the table, but she continued to eat. When I approached her, she immediately gave me the serious eyes.


"Mom, " she with the most concerning voice, "I have to talk to you about this cereal. We are NOT getting this again!"


Looking down, I noticed a little pile of almonds on the side of her dish.


"Mom.....they put toenails in this cereal!



Funny? Yes. But very disturbing to me that she continued to eat the cereal despite thinking this.