It's basketball time again!

I know I have had quite a few posts, but I am sick with no energy to do anything else. Yes, the dishes and the laundry are piling up but they will still be there tomorrow and hopefully I will have energy to do them, at least by Monday. If it is true it takes a week for the flu to finish then by Monday I should be feeling better. I am not looking forward to the catch-up on the house work though. So sorry for my complaining, back to the title of the blog.

It is time again for the boys to start basketball again. They were so excited to get started. They both had their first games last Saturday. Both teams won!! Yea!!! Now they are Clark 1-2, Ryan 2-0. Both teams are great, Clark's team didn't lose by much, but they are one of the best teams I think, they just need to pass the ball more.

Ryan

Clark

Emma and a couple of her friends during the game. She has to bring something to do so she isn't bored, she says.

"This month is such a special one;

It's birthday time for you.

We'd really like to celebrate Your happy day with you.

Zip-a-dee-ay and heigh-dee-ho, Here's something we can do.

We'll sing a song that we all know, Happy Birthday to you!

Yes, it is that time of year again, Dad is another year older. I think he is actually counting backwards now!

Happy Birthday Clark!!!!!

The jolly man in the red suit!!!

We finally made it to see Santa Claus. We tried to visit him last Saturday at "Bass Pro", but by the time we got there the line was forever long and we ended up leaving. We ran into a lady we knew, that was a couple of people in front of us, and she was saying that she stood in line for 2 hours. Glad we gave up and went back another day. I couldn't get the two older boys to sit on his lap but Emma was so excited, and Andrew was even happy to see him, that he even said Santa Claus. He was so comfortable with him that he didn't want to leave his lap.

Andrew's first visit with Santa. 12/13/10

These pictures were taken the day before they got sick. Glad we saw him when we did or we might not have made it this year!!! :)

Meet our newest family member....

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. This month has gone by way to fast!!! To make the story short I took Emma in to the Doctor yesterday thinking she had strep nope, that came back negative but you could tell that she didn't feel very good so they did a flu test on her and it came back positive for influenza B. I had asked the doctor a question about Andrew, bacause he was coughing and up all night, he decided that it probably was the same thing as Emma, he did the flu test and yes it came back positive. After talking to him we had come to the conclusion Clark and Ryan were just getting over it and I am suffering from it. I don't wish it upon anybody, I am so tired and my body aches, along with a nasty cough that has me not wanting to cough anymore because my throat hurts so bad an I have lost my voice. I feel so bad for the boys because I didn't think they were that bad. So I am sorry Clark and Ryan, I am glad you are feeling better. So to you all try and stay well this Christmas season!!!

Well back to the title of my post. This is our new puppy, he is an 8-9 week old beagle. We don't have a name for him yet, we are trying to decide what suits him best. He is such a sweetheart (right now). He loves to cuddle and so far (knock on wood) he isn't whining while he is in his bed. I will post some better pictures of him when it is daylight and I am feeling better.

Aggie checking him out

Pictures :)

It's that time of year again. Time to take pictures for our Christmas cards. Every one knows how much fun it is trying to get your kids to smile, be happy and look at the camera all at the same time. We tried to take pictures a few different spots, and the kids actually let us take their pictures, without complaining too much. So just to let you know this is a picture overload, some of my favorites, and some just show the craziness we go through to get pictures of our kids.





There was a dog just behind me and Andrew was more interested in that than getting his picture taken



Emma waiting for Dad to situate Andrew



Clark (13 years)

Ryan (11 years)

Emma (8 years)

Andrew (16 months)

By this time Andrew was ready to be done and these were the best we had



Our crazy kids!!!

Downtown by the creek.