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the tree is up

Visiting Santa

Mo explaining his christmas list

Cole would not sit on his lap. This was as close as she was going to get to him and that was only with cousin Claire in between. She wouldn't look at me to get her picture because she had to keep an eye on Santa to make sure he wouldn't touch her. If he moved she was ready to make a run for it.

Happy Thanksgiving 2009

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Happy Birthday Ray!

I can't believe it's Thanksgiving already. I am so behind. Mentally I just about ready to start decorating for Halloween.

not forgotten

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since I've written on my blog page. So many things have happened, many things that I really just don't want to talk about or think about.

Since I've written last my mother has been up to visit. It was really nice having her here. While she was here I had surgery on my foot. They put a pin in my toe and I was laying around with my foot up for about two months. The hardest thing was not being able to drive. I taught myself how to knit from watching YouTube videos. I got tired of reading. So far I have made four scarves. I want to try making hats next if I can find the time. We really don't need anymore scarves!

The kids are getting big. We haven't been keeping up with their schooling activities like I wanted to. Ed lost his job not to long ago and has gone back to just construction fulltime. Since then I have been working with him and the kids go with us. They enjoy it for the most part. They even get into helping us. Our friend Mike gave us his old laptop that the kids can watch videos on while we are at a job site. I got out of working with him today because I have so much laundry to to. I really don't have any clean pants to wear. Yesterday I wore a pair of maternity pants that I found in the back of the closet.

The kids made a video on the laptop. I'm going to try and post it and see if it works.

painting

painting painting painting

Half of our living room is painted and I going to attempt to finish the walls today.

I was checking out the color, dreaming of decorating and maybe being able to finally hang something on the walls when I noticed Moe's unapproved painting project on our leather couch.

Get Out

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