CRAZY HAIR NIGHT!!!

Fun with friends.....

Everyone had a friend over today and had tons of FUN!!!

UP TO DATE!!

Okay I have added New Year's Eve to our blog so I'm up to date on the major things! However, I'm behind putting the tree away. I "pulled the plug" as my family calls it on our downstairs tree the Sunday after Christmas. Doug decided it was a little sad and too soon so I plugged it back in and agreed we would take it down the following week! Well, as I was taking the ornaments off the other day, I had several off and in the ornament box and left the room for a while. When I came back all of the ornaments were "BACK ON THE TREE!!!" Doug wasn't home so I went to the next suspect...Si. I asked him what he was doing and he said "I'm helping you Mommy" I told him I was taking the ornaments off the tree and he responded with "I know but you were almost done and I thought you needed more to take off!!!" so with that story we left the 3 lower branches dragging to the floor with the ones he added back on just because he is so sweet!! (Well, he was that day anyway!!)

Oh yeah, I'm an official Facebook person now!! I had a few friends telling me I should join, I signed up and now I'm connected to several friends that I have not talked to in years!! It has been so much fun catching up!!

NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTIES....

We went out for New Year's Eve this year since Si is a bit older and decided we would see how long the kids would last. Well our first stop was at the Beck's for a FARKEL party!! If you haven't played this...check it out, just simple fun if you have a good score keeper. I have yet decided if we did, I was ahead for most of the whole game and in the end somehow managed to roll Wade a win!!! Anyway, tons of fun with friends and the kids were still up for the next party!! We went on to the Viscardis' home where we rang in the New Year...believe it or not the kids were still going strong at midnight, it was us about to fall over!! Check out the slide to see us ring in the New Year with wonderful friends....

Not "MARLEY & ME" but "BEAN & US"

http://marleyandmemovie.com/



This so parallels our lives!! From having an idea in your mind about how sweet and serene it would be having a dog, not sure if Doug planned it but we did decide not to have children for the first 4 years we had him, to the picking Bean out from a litter full of adorable puppies but knowing he was the one, to bringing him home where he instanstly started carry off our laundry, yes he did go through a screen door, to I'm sure being called names by outsiders, I was the one to take him to obedience school where the instructors broke out in a sweat over him, and YES he did eat my DIAMOND RING and YES Doug did have to dig through poop (love him!). He would also get down on his front paws waiting for the chase when he was doing something he shouldn't, and I think we may have denied that he was ours a couple of times. Following along with the clip he most certainly brought out the best in our family!

Bean didn't care if we were rich or poor, we gave him our heart and he gave us his!

Well if you have read to this point I will share that Doug and I went to see this movie on December 28th and "we" cried through the entire movie!! It was heartbreaking but kind of fun to remember Bean at Christmas and laugh!! I just tried to pull out the points from the clip but there were so many more in the movie...it really was crazy!! Okay have to stop (tears)!!