Our visit with Santa...

A-hum..... Hello folks.....

Trying to take your picture here!

Can I please have your attention!





Much better! Thank you.

When we got inside Santa just kind of looked at our group in awe. Once the shock wore off he relaxed and our time with the jolly gentleman commenced.

Olivia and Jolie were first and quickly told him what their wishes were.
It was then decided that perhaps a group picture up front would be best, instead of trying to re-group everyone after the fact.
Parker and Hunter, never the shy ones, were very adamant about their desires and even repeated them ever louder upon questioning. I guess they didn't want there to be any misunderstandings.
Kristina, the ever believeing girl, was quick to jump in Santa's lap and tell him her hearts desire.

An autographed book by her favorite author.









Kaitlyn was also eager to tell Santa that she wanted a Architectural program for the computer.
Afterwards while we waited for the pictures we purchased I was anxious to get a picture of all the kiddo's in the sleigh. A very nice lady - muscled me into joining my kids for the photo shoot.

Sunday Burrrrrr's.....

Well everyone has to participate in the holiday spirit especially after receiving his new coiff! Jake is pretty proud of his new outfit and coiff. His shirt is actually a hoodie.

Max being the old man, he'll be 10 years old on Monday, can leave or take the new outfit. I couldn't resist these outfits. I'm not one for dressing animals, usually, but these were just to cute.

I've been doing my usual sleep pattern. Fall asleep on the couch at 9 and wake up in bed between 4 and 5 a.m. Last night was no different and as usual without the aid of an alarm clock I was up bright and early. Took Max out for his morning sniff around the yard and BOY! was it cold (15*). Jump ahead a few hours and I realize that it really is dark out for 7 o'clock. I climb off the couch, much to Max's disapproval of his body warmer taking off without him and look out the window. No wonder its still dark! Don't know how long this is going to last, but I think its quite nice. We're headed off to the cabin today to see if Santa is in for a quick visit. Just seems appropriate that we should have to get to the Jolly man's place by walking through the snow for this visit. Check back later for pics of our visit!
I had to put the socks away for a couple of days to complete another project that someone in my house is going to go ga-ga over come Christmas morning. I've been working on it for weeks, it was one of my car projects, and I suddenly realized that Christmas is just a couple of weeks away and I still had 1/3 of it to still do. So I spent hours over the last couple of days hiding and working whenever I could. Unbelievably, I finished it. I love having projects completed in time and now its time to get these socks done and mailed off before I leave town on Wednesday, if at all possible. My last gift to have finished in time.

When I complete these socks all of my projects will be done. I'll have nothing planned to do. No socks, no gloves, no sweaters. I'm starting to get worried. Jittery. Almost like a caffeine withdrawal.

Oh, Suzanne, just look over at the fireplace hearth. There sit all your yarn and goodies in wonderful plastic containers to keep it all clean and neat. Just walk over and sit down, look over all you have and rest assured that in those boxes are lots of unrealized ideas and dreams of wonderfully wooly things to cuddle up with.

O.k. o.k. yeah.

I'm o.k. now.

Last visits... for a while.

Slipped out last night for a quick visit with Karen while she is in town. This is her last trip to the Springs working for USOC. She is joining the Army (read her Dec. 6th post) and will be stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. We're going to miss having her fly into town and cheer us up for a few days with her stories and opportunities for dinner at Mirsh Masala.

I did get to re-measure her foot. When David

printed off an outline of her foot something happened and her outline ended up being the same size as my own foot. Karen wears a larger shoe than I do. So with her coming into town it was the perfect opportunity to press the issue and have her take her shoe and sock off in a cold car to draw the outline. She was a good sport considering how I know she just LOVES the cold. ;-)

I finished my meds yesterday and so did David. Now we have 6 more people to go. All the kids are doing great. Our intent is for everyone to be well for a quick trip to Texas to visit my parents and a wonderful friend of mine who is dealing with Chemo. We can't afford for anyone to bring an illness on this trip.
Snow still on the ground from this last winter storm. Will probably be for another day or so. At least the roads are fine. But we're now starting to hear about another storm headed our way. I think Karen will just barely make it out of town before the next one hits!