New Year's Wishes

"Oh no, it's New Year's Eve already. Where has the time gone." Wishing you and your family a safe, happy, and prosperous 2009. For all those waiting families, our prayer is that the CCAA will finally speed up in 2009 and bring your little one home sooner.

Favorite Links

Family Blogs

(D)rivvel Supp
A View Through My Window
Adventures of Hannah Mei
Allie's World
Cady Chase
Double Happiness
La Bicicleta
Love & Happiness
Making a Family
Moments with Maisie
Oliver Michael
Our Loco Life
Rachel Days
Salsa in China
Sasha Lili
She Makes the Stars Twinkle
Stinky Mouse
The Chronicles of Mommia
The Pixel Fairy Princess
The Taming of Tenley
Waiting for Sophie

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. Noelle, as usual, didn't want to pose for her traditional Christmas picture but I managed to bribe her with the promise of ham and roast for dinner!!! More pictures to come later after we visit with my family.

Look What Dallas Got for Christmas!!!

Looks like Dallas got her "pink bikikul" for Christmas. Now she just needs to learn how to ride it!!!

Update on FIL

Thank you for all the prayers and kind words for my dear FIL. Here is all we know so far. The doctors cannot find the source of the stroke(the blood clot). He is a very healthy(aside from the stroke) and stubborn man. He is now in rehab in Duluth and doing very well. They are hopeful he will be able to go home this weekend.

I've been tagged.

I've been tagged for an 8 things meme by Casey from "The Queen Bee" Here are my answers.

8 Favorite TV Shows:

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. CSI Miami
3. Dancing with the Stars
4. Fox and Friends
5. * Wow Wow Wubzy
6. *Caillou
7. * Make Way for Noddy
8. *Kipper
* By this time Dallas won't let me watch anything else I like so no more favorites for me*

8 Things I Look Forward to:

1. Watching my few favorite shows.
2. Time for my Photography
3. Time for my Digi-Scrapping
4. The end of football/baseball season!!!
5. Few minutes of peace and quite here and there!!!
6. Having my house clean if only for a day!!!
7. Seeing the joy on Dallas's face when she sees the new "Pink Bikickul" Santa will bring her
8. Turning "42" on Tuesday(the 16th)!!!

8 Things on my Wish List:

1. Peace and quiet on my birthday(Hey it's my wish list!!!)
2. Dallas would sleep in her own bed all the time with no problem going to sleep
3. My family's/friend's health and well-being
4. All the camera equipment I can imagine
5. The knowledge to use all that equipment!!!
6. To lose weight and look good in that bikini on the beach in Cancun(Hey it's my wish list!!!)
7. For people to know the true meaning of Christmas
8. For everyone to know of God's love

8 Things I did yesterday:

1. Emergency Room(Sinusitis and Pharyngitis)
2. Take a nap with Dallas
3. Few loads of laundry
4. Internet
5. Hit Amazon for last minute deals(Dallas' birthday in March is now covered!!!)
6. Read Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2" Chapter 1
7. Watched TV with Skip and Dallas(Their fave shows not mine!!!)
8. Sulk and pout around the house about not feeling good

8 Favorite Restaurants:

1. Landry's Seafood(local)
2. Chili's
3. Applebee's
4. Casa Ole
5. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
6. Outback
7. A great Italian Restaurant(unfortunately none around here)
8. A few various local Chinese Restaurants

8 Blogs I Follow:

1. (D)rivvel Supp
2. La Bicicleta
3. A View Through my Window
4. Kristin Vald
5. Making of a Family
6. Allie's World
7. Love and Happiness
8. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
*In no particular order*

An innocent little cough....

It all started last Thursday with an innocent little cough. Dallas was in the doctor's office the next morning. Cough, cough, snot, snot!!! Then she started with the high fever that wouldn't stay down. Two more calls to the pediatrician's office and three prescriptions later, she is finally feeling better. Then it happened, she gave it to me!!! Why is it that I feel like death and she was bouncing off the walls while sick. Cough, cough, snot, snot, puke, puke!!! I really don't feel like typing anything else so I am going to take my codeine cough syrup and go to bed. Maybe I will blog more tomorrow.

Dallas and Santa 2008

Miss Priss went right up to the big guy and hopped up in his lap. She wasn't afraid of him at all. Santa asked what she wanted and she told him "I wont pink bikickul Santa". Dallas wasn't shy about asking either as she kind of demanded it!!! Yes my baby, Santa will bring you a pink bicycle for Christmas.

Prayers for my FIL please

Skip's dad had a minor stroke yesterday. The doctors ran tests today and found his carotid artery 60% blocked. He is being transferred to Duluth tomorrow morning where he will undergo more tests to find out where the blood clot is and then surgery. Could you please say a prayer for him. I will update tomorrow when I find out more.