December 2010

December 2010 ~ I thought I would update the blog before the
holidays. It's been a busy December so far with work, holiday
preparations and now, basketball. Here are a few pictures of what
we've been up to lately.
After 5 years of patiently waiting, I finally got living room carpet!
It was one of the last major purchases from all of our remodeling
and was so worth the wait! It is so nice not having plywood floors
anymore too! We had it installed right before Thanksgiving.


It was so nice to finally put the living room back together and
to enjoy the 'new' furniture we bought a few years ago.


We now have the tilework done in front of the fireplace too
(will post pic later). We just need to stain and install the base
board trim and then we will have a huge project checked off
our 'to do' list! We are now doing some work in our master
bathroom. We always have something we are working on! :)
That's what Bernie gets for being so handy! lol


We are now busy with basketball. We traveled to Brady
yesterday 12-10-10 and the boys' pulled off another win!
Tyler, #3, is doing really good!


Tyler is a very good defensive player.

Paxton wins 38-28!

Garrett, far left, has had to sit out. He is recuperating from

being sick. He got sick Thanksgiving night and had a very

severe case of strep throat and thrush. He was unable to eat

or drink for 5 days and lost over 8lbs. He missed an entire week

of school and has been really fatigued. His team has had 4 games

so far this season and so far he has missed all of them. He will start

practice again this week tho and is cleared to play in the next games

as long as he remains healthy. He has never been that sick so it was

a little scary. So far, knock on wood, none of the rest of us have been ill.

He enjoys basketball and was looking forward to the season so he is ready

to get back and play.

Last weekend, 12-3 and 12-4, Tiger hosted

Medicine Valley and Eustis-Farnam and we

won both of those games.

Tyler had an awesome block!

Great job Tigers!

This was Tyler's first ever high school basketball game!

He was doing such a great job!...

until this very shot when he got jabbed

right in the eye!!! OUCH!!!

He had to sit out then due to some double vision

and major pain! I felt so bad for him! Not a good

way to start the season! Hopefully it's his only injury

this season! :)

Atleast the Tigers won! :)

12-9-10 ~ Yes, it's a miracle...this is Cade at

the Christmas program! He usually fakes being

sick and plays hooky on Program days so he doesn't

have to go but he actually went this year!

BUT...he still didn't sing! Infact he looked down the whole time!

Darn kid!

Maybe we'll let him play hooky next year! lol

~ Well, as I write the trees and decorations are up, baking supplies

bought, most of the X-mas shopping is done and things are wrapped.

I am bound and determined to not be stressed this year! With working

now I haven't been able to be quite as organized as I'd like and the baking

will have to wait until we are out for Xmas vacation but I am looking forward

to spending the holidays with family. We are extremely blessed and have much

to be thankful for so I am looking forward to some time off of work to catch my

breath, catch up on a few things, relax and ENJOY the holiday season! I hope

you will all be able to do the same. :)