'Tis the Season

Our Christmas Photo for 2006 (above) was inspired by Ugly Christmas Sweater day at the Dental School. Doesn't Cole look amazing . . . ENJOY!!

Miracle Girl!

Yesturday was my sister Shayla's 2 year anniversary of being granted a second chance at life. She had a seizure 2 years ago that stopped her heart for 5+ minutes. She has had a miraculous recovery and I'm so grateful for her! I remember talking to her on the phone at Christmas time and she couldn't even talk, she had no voice. She has overcome so many obstacles and is a great inspiration and such a hard worker! She's now a walking & talking MIRACLE!! We love living close to her and being able to go to some of her therapies with her. My kids love to go see her at her horse therapy . . . she can do some amazing things on them! We had a great day with her yesturday to celebrate! We love you Shayla and we couldn't imagine life without you girl!! (By the way, she is such a great Aunt! My kids absolutly love her! Who wouldn't ?!)

Catching Up!

Where has the time gone! Tessa is 4 weeks today. Her first 2 weeks were calm and life was slow, but now it's back to swimming lessons, trying to rent 2 apts, making my own meals, school, and daily life. Here are a few of the highlights.




My Mess Maker
It never fails . . . you lock up one drawer and they become interested in another. Dominic is the royal mess maker. Some of his lastest messes are making "toilet soup" with kitchen utensils, squirting toothpaste all over the table, and licking the middles out of oreo cookies.







Catching Mice!
So it's been a month long saga of mice catching in our apt. I could go on and on about how horrifying it is to see a mouse run past your feet and then poke it's head out by your fridge and tell you how frustrated I am that I'm living with mice, but will spare you. We caught a total of 4 in traps . . .I insisted on covered traps so I wouldn't have to see them . . . seeing the tail was enough to make me put on gloves and quickly throw the trap in a garbage bag. After Cole would get home he'd let the kids see them and they'd take them to the garbage. Macie thought they were cute and Dominic was absolutly fasinated by them. This picture is of him crying by the dumpster because they got thrown away. He stood there for 5 minutes in the rain . . . the holes have been filled and hopefully we won't have any more creatures in our home!!!!

A Minivan Fam

We are offically a minivan family and there is no going back, and I love it. I tried and tried to get 3 car seats to fit in our 1991 Toyota Camry (212,000 miles), but it simply was not going to happen without the doors smacking the kids each time they shut. So we traded cars with my dad and now drive a 1994 Dodge Caravan (230,000 miles). I'm not sure who go the better end of the deal, but we're grateful and it's nice to have space. I've dreamed of a minivan for a long time, but never thought I'd be driving the same car my mom drove us around in as kids. Crazy huh, Oh well :)

My Rock Star Husband

Cole's band - Malpractice - played again at the end of October. I wasn't able to go since I just had the baby, but heard it was awesome!