Christmas 2008- family fun for all

This is a group photo of our entire family including but not limited to the dogs...

There is Heather with Daniel, Allie and Nick with their dog weezer, Robbie holding Bekah and Ashleigh, Bud and Cirus, and in front are Rob with our charlie, and me holding Audrey...

Our family is growing by leaps and bounds. Christmas was an adventure to say the least. We all met at our house on Christmas eve to open our new pj's (santa won't come if you are wearing old pj's) then some of us went to church, others went home (not feeling well) and others went to hang out over friends houses.

The next morning Christmas- rob robbie and i opened presents together and then we chilled. i mean we did nothing all morning execpt for rob who was a dear sweet soul and made me a everything bagel with ham, egg, and cheese on it.. yum yum.... Ashleigh got here around 12 and joined us in doing nothing... the turkey was in the oven the ham was ready to go and all was well.

Around 1 everyone else started to trickle in: Bud Heather and little ones following and Nick and Allie. Audrey wanted to open presents first thing so while we all got our energy reved up again i gave her the Elmo live doll papa and i got her- she loved it... and that kept her busy for a while so we could mash the sweet potatoes, and clean the asparagus to be cooked. then came the flurry of wrappings and presents along with the shouts of "i can't believe i got this" and "how did you know I wanted this". I was busy taking pictures with the new camera rob got me.. i love it...

After everyone ate their fill and buttons were about to pop - things were packed up and put in cars along with children and dogs and everyone went home to head for richmond in the morning.

Heather dropped Bekah off at 6:30 and then they headed out. Rob bekah and i left around 10 and stopped by gary and judis then bekah decided to throw up in her car seat as we were driving down the road. after stopping cleaning her and the car seat up and changing her clothes we met allie and nick at the border station. Soon robbie caught up with us and we were all headed to richmond to see jes, jon, mom and dad. We all had a great time there and i would add pictures but they would kill me and i don't wish to die yet...

So until later... Happy New Year and May God bless everyone with good health, lots of wealth, and exciting new year... Sherri

audrey and the gingerbread house

The Sunday before Christmas Audrey came over after we went to church and we made a gingerbread house together... she was all ooohs and aaahs as i unwrapped it. Then she grabbed one of the sides of the house - yells cookie and almost took a bit out of it. I showed her the picture and explained that we were going to decorate it together and her reply was "do we eat it"? So all is going well we 'glue' it together - well actually i glued it together Audrey ate the glue that dripped. I held the roof on and then we went to watch tv for the 20 minutes it took to dry.

After the waiting period and millions of "is it dry yet" we went back into the dining room to decorate the house. I was spreading the icing on the roof and Audrey says, "Audrey lick it" I asked her what and she replied, "just one lick please". Audrey wanted to lick the icing off the roof.. No i didn't let her but promised her one of the gingerbread man after we finished.

After the roof was iced i poured the Candie on the table and told Audrey to decorate the roof- she decided to eat the candy instead. half went in her mouth and half went on the cake... then we decorated the men and their tree- afterwards and i mean seconds afterwards Audrey looks up at me with her big blue eyes and says, "Audrey eat it now". I explained to her that it had to dry a little to stay together. so we went back to the TV and continued to watch some kids movie that was on. i looked in the dining room a little while later and noticed the roof sliding off the house. Rob came to the rescue with a can of green spray icing an two toothpicks and glued the house back together and propped up the roof with the toothpicks... It shows that those years owning a construction company paid off.

A little while later Heather arrived with Bekah and Daniel. Audrey showed them the house and then told Bekah " we get to eat it" so i gave in gave them each a gingerbread man to eat. Bud came over later and ate the tree...

So there is the first and only gingerbread house i've ever made and i think audrey enjoyed eating it instead of making it...

Tater bud, audrey, bekah and the rest of us

Tater bud (daniels nick name of the week) is growing by leaps and bounds. He is already holding up his head, looking around, and eating like a hog... he loves to eat, burp, and pass gas - i guess he takes after his papa (robert). His eyes are still blue, his hair is dark and he is beautiful.

Bekah is trying so hard to keep up with Audrey. When I take Audrey to Potty she cries to go with us and then she repeats over and over pee pee so after the new year we will (just when she is here) start letting her us the potty. She is super moody and God forbid you bug her when she is in a bad mood. She hits, kicks, and bullies everyone execpt tater. she is so gentle with him. She loves her big sister but they fight over everything.

Audrey is getting super big. Her favorite saying now is "duh" and "whatever" and she says them all at the right times. We (rob and I) took her Christmas shopping today. She was sooo good. She was amazed at all the Christmas things at Garden Ridge.. We took her to Chick Fil for dinner and she got to play in their play room for about an hour. She loved the slide the best and kept going through the maze and sliding down.

The rest of us are doing great. Robbie is still in Richmond- hopefully he and Ashleigh will be here for Christmas. Heather and Bud of course have been busy with three kids and daniel keeps them all up when he cries. Nick and Allie are finally in their own house and are doing great although their basset hound got out and we have to look for it tomorrow after church.

Rob is doing great and his shop is getting busy... He is decorating the house and putting up the Christmas tree tomorrow. He's a busy little beaver. one of his customers gave him a bushel of oysters and he is making oyster everything for dinner tomorrow.

I am finishing up all of my final projects this week for school. I finish this semester next friday and i am really looking forward to being done... one more semester left and I graduate... i think i decided to go to florida tech university on line in the fall to get my masters in healthcare admin. but i haven't enrolled yet so we shall see... until later... sherri