Christmas 2009 Photos

Mommy made the Christmas present backboard AND the adorable children. I'm guessing the elves made Santa. Merry Christmas '09!

Catching up...

I've got some serious catching up to do...



I've not been on facebook since Christmas, I think, so you're getting a rare look into my past life. Well, the past life of events that unfolded in the most recent 4.5 months of our family's life.

1 - In October, I broke my foot and sprained my ankle rather catastrophically which came as quite a shock since I'd never before broken a single bone (Andrew kept his spirits as you can see however).




2 - In November, I shopped for lots of trees at a tree farm 2 hours away twice in one week, then we poured thousands of square feet of concrete for our circular drive and planted 50 trees that arrived by semi-truck--way too much landscaping management for a mommy nursing a baby and nursing a terrible foot and ankle injury. It is all beginning to look very beautiful though:)






3 -Michael turned a whopping 6 years old in November! He adores transformers and even drew a picture design of a transformer named Starscream that he wanted me to put on his birthday cake. His transformer wish is my command. He also began to be very good friends with his T-Rex around his birthday; he is a truly personified and animated stuffed dinosaur now. He gets into all kinds of trouble I'd otherwise have to lecture Michael about. It's nice to have friends like that!











Adorable Andrew turned sweet 1 in December. He got my first ever home-made from scratch carrot cake-lucky guy! Unlike Michael, he relished his cake AND FROSTING on his first birthday. That's my baby, oh sweet growing up baby...





More to come later...Christmas, New Year, etc.

'Bout Time I Wrote Again

Hey Sharica!

First one of you two to see this post wins a super prize. I'll bet you gave up any hope of me ever posting to my blog again:) Well, Jeannine just started one http://jeannineisom.blogspot.com so I'm inspired to get going again.

Today on the menu, Bratwurst stew. First time I've made this, and I knew it'd be a hit with my German food loving hubby, Scott. Andrew, the baby adored it too--almost as much as I adore him:)

Michael and Madeleine have been inviting friends today to a Valentine's party I'm hosting for them on Friday. They each get to invite 3 friends.