Conservative Radio Tour

Gary seems to be multitasking at work which has caused him to pick up the phone from time to time and call a host. This time, it was Bill O'Reilly. So far he has not attempted to call Mr. Limbaugh. Jane retains the only Denning call into Rush, which happened in our Florida days.

Here's Gary's call...with a slip into his re-emerging accent:



disclaimer: Gary wrote this in 3rd person - not sure why!

Courtney Part II

So here's the picture of Courtney's front teeth post losing her first tooth...
Kind of funny how the other front tooth just fell over crooked. Click on the photo to enlarge it - sorry for the dirty face!

And here is what she looks like now...YES - just 2 days later she lost her 2nd tooth. It's started her singing a certain song about my 2 front teeth; that I'm trying to get out of my head!

Courtney loses a tooth!!!

Courtney loses her tooth and gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy !!!

The rest of the story is that almost as soon as she lost her tooth it slipped out of her hands and is now hiding somewhere in our home. This made it necessary for a handwritten Courtney note to the tooth fairy.

To her glee and dismay, the tooth fairy did visit - depositing "only" 4 quarters for this precious first tooth from our 6 year old!

Click the photo to see an enlarged view.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to all! It's hard to believe that we've started a new year already. I sure am hoping for a lot of change this year...please some dollar bills too!

I have not solidified my New Year's Resolutions yet - perhaps because of how few I actually accomplished last year.

So it seems the best thing to do is to reflect on this first post of the year. There is nothing better than to reflect on the great Christmas with family again this year - this time a little bigger with the addition of Matthew, Jen and their 3 cute girls. It was fun for the cousins to play together.





Letters to Santa





Traditional Reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" & Luke 2:

Snowicide!!!!!

While the children were all nestled all snug in their beds a snowman decapitator lurked around our snowmans' head. As we awoke early this morning and sprang from our bed, what to our wondering eyes should appear but a horrific scene like this...

So, to the Scrooge who took our snowman's head, hat, and other plastic accessories
WARNING:

Frosty the Snowman

After an abbreviated church service on Sunday, we came home to shovel another 4 inches of wet, heavy snow. After the drudgery of shoveling, we took some time to build what is likely our largest snowman ever. Standing at about 7' tall, here is our snowman - hopefully it will last through the rain that is on the way for Christmas eve and Day!

The Weather Outside is Frightful...

Yes, the first major winter storm has hit... The second won't be too far behind, tomorrow!

In total only about 7 - 8 inches fell in our area, but the heavy wind caused some larger drifts. Tomorrow's storm could bring another 4 - 8 inches or sleet and then rain - which would likely freeze since Monday's high temp's are going to be in the low 20's with single digit wind chills.

Here are a couple of photo's taken early in the storm & a video of the boys and neighbor kids.

At it's height, the snow was coming down at a rate of about 1 -2 inches an hour!