Happy Birthday

Today is my honeys birthday. I wanted to let him know just how much he means to me. Happy Birthday!!!!
Top Ten reasons why I love YOU!!!
1. Because you let me have control of the remote control, even though you know that I will watch "the fatty show" aka The Biggest Loser. Love that show!!
2. Because you pretend to be amused at my stories.
3. Because you willingly get up with the girls at night, time after time. What a dad!!!!
4. Because you let me beat you at cards!!! Whenever we get the chance to play.
5. Because you like to watch chick flicks with me.
6. Because you let me go to bunco, bookclub ... and never say anything.
7. Because you can build just about anything. Look at my house!!!
8. Because you are willing to let me google WebMD and self-diagnois. Well, till you "had" pancreatic cancer. :) good healing!!!
9. Because you let me wake you up every morning to say goodbye.
10. Because you say that you love me, too!!!!!

spring thaw!!

We took a family vacation to St. George. This came after we all needed a blast of sunshine and a break from the wheel of life.
We went to a dedicatory of Dad's great great grandfathers statue, a walk around town, shopping at the outlets, and a little hike just above St. George.
My girls are just getting so big & having the time of their lives being outside in the sunshine. I have to admit that I, too, also like the Golden Rays.
On our little hike, Uncle Doug joked that there were bats. Gracie believes this because she saw an empty orange crush can, and "Bats drink orange toke" Didn't everyone know that?

Everyone needed the nice break from life and to soak in the sunshine!!!! I am sure that we will put our vote in to make this an annual trip!!!

merry christmas

All I want for Christmas is two cute little girls. We have had the funnest time with Christmas this year.... and only to get better year after year.

Little Sister has helped decorate our tree (again, and again) but has seemed to really enjoy herself.

The joys of Big Sister were helping to decorate the packages.... with ghosts that say boo & Happy Halloween. A couple of holidays late, but still festive. She also loved taking packages around to the neighbors. She even got some of her presents under the tree to give away.

Merry Christmas to all & to all a good night.

birthday girl

I can't believe that my little baby is already turning ONE. She has been quite the little joy at our house. It is so much fun with 2 little girls that absolutely adore one another.... I hope that this lasts through the teen years too.

Little Sis is so fun & loves to laugh & be chased, especially up the stairs. She has been walking for the past 6 weeks & running for the past 5 weeks and 5 days. She wants to be big just like her sister and has the determination that she just might try to be bigger one day.

We love our Little Sister and am so glad that she is in our family..... now if she would just start sleeping through the night again.

happy birthday

HaPpY BirTHdaY!! Mo Mo!!

Happy birthday to a wonderful talented neice. We love you. Big Sister loves to come and stay at your house and play with you.
We think that you are so talented. You dance, you play softball, basketball and volleyball... and of course you can text unlike no other (unless you are at the dinner table)
Thanks for being so cute.
We love you!!!

tamale day

After months of begging Ellie to teach us how to make homemade tamales.... she finally gave in.

We - Delores, Andrea, Michelle, Liz, myself & Ellie brought everything in our kitchen and met at 10 am and worked until 8 pm for 5 dozen tamales. We cooked meat, we made rue, we mixed masa, we mixed masa, and we were still mixing our masa.... especially Delores, and then we finally rolled our tamales. I will say that the first ones were quite thin & nice... towards the end the tamales became bigger and bigger and had more meat in them. I like to think of them as a big girl tamale.
It was a lot of work, but well worth it. We had a ton of fun & will be eating tamales for quite a while.

Thanks Ellie!!!!

Happy RT week

Happy RT week to all my fellow rad techs!!! We are having our own pity party at work, but after a week of planning & the radiologists chipping in (and we only had to ask once) we had a wonderful Cafe Rio lunch!