First post from the iPad

Thanks to the new Blogsy application. Maybe now I won't be a week between posts.

 

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Sully's pose

Sully has recent started striking a pose for photos. We weren't really sure what prompted it. And then last night he and I watched an episode of Transformers: Rescuebots where blade and bumblebee get their picture taken at the end. As the characters in the show struck a pose, Sully did too. Another mystery solved. Too funny.

Here is the pose:

WI Christmas #1

On Friday we packed up the kids and Jordy, headed to Appleton WI for Christmas #1. We arrived with just enough time for the kids to run around like maniacs for an hour before we headed out for Friday Fish Fry. The kids ran around like maniacs there too. The fish was good. The beer was decent. Catching was up nice too.

Saturday morning we got the kids up, fed, cleaned, dressed. Then we loaded them in the car for a quick visit with my parents. Sully was upset that we weren't at "their other house" (aka, my sister's house with the car race track in the basement), but he got over it and started playing with some trucks in the toy room. Harper helped decorate some chocolate covered pretzels for Syd and Cass. Then it was time for gifts.

I think it is safe to say that everyone loved the build-a-track that Sully got (even Jordy). Harper liked her magnetic puzzle (as evidenced by her asking to play with it several times the rest of the weekend). Sully loved the flashlights too.

Here they are posing in front of the tree. Then Sully wanted one of him and his cars. ....then one of just his cars....

And here are the toys....

After all that excitement, we piled back in the car and headed back for Christmas with the Smiths. Gifts were opened, food was eaten, beer was consumed. Harper got an Elf on the Shelf from her Aunt Mel, which she was sooooo excited about. Sully got lots of cars (and some other stuff like books and clothes). T got a coffee tumbler from Starbucks with free refills every day in January and some puppy PJs from the kids. I got warm mittens!

Saturday night we grabbed a drink with one of T's friends from back in the day. Sunday I think we were all battling a cold, so we packed up early and came home.

holiday brain farts...

The holidays have sort of taken over. I'm not sure where I left off or what happened since. Lots of gift wrapping and baking happened. Some wine and beer were imbibed, I'm sure. I'm loving the X Factor and Homeland right now (which seem like the only shows I have time to watch). I catch up on TV when T goes to football or church meetings. And one Saturday I caught up on some TV.....but I don't remember how long ago that was. Ha ha.


Here are some of the treats we made - bacon fat gingersnaps, pecan fingers, and peanut butter balls! All have been taste tested and approved by both T and I. We also made and decorated some sugar cookies.

We went to T's office holiday party which is kid friendly, so we took the kids. The only picture I have is of the kids wrestling on the floor AND this one of T and H eating Costco cake.

It was nice to catch up with the folks in his office (some of my old kickball team).

Then we went to WI to celebrate xmas with T's family .....

this happened on Sunday too....

We met up with this cutie for brunch at the Tap on Sunday (and his parents came too!)

Sunday = Snow day!

No fog this weekend. Snow instead!

Jordy was so happy to play in the snow. He played with his toy, chased snow balls, dug holes and tried to attack the shovel. It was a good dog day. By early evening, he was exhausted.

the weekends fly by

We didn't have any major plans this weekend. And yet is seems to have flown by.

We made cookies:

We tried a few new beers. I liked this one, but it was a little too boozy (at 9.5% alcohol by volume):

We played one game of chess after T realized that my Mom brought this chess set up on Thanksgiving: