Merry Christmas!

I read a similar post on my friend Becky's blog, and I'm sure that is something we all feel often at this time of year. I am a huge fan of Glenn Beck -listening to his radio show and watching his show on CNN daily I guess you could call me a groupie. We have tickets to go to his Christmas show next week--one of his nine city tour stops is here in Des Moines, can you believe how lucky we are? I am totally pumped. He describes his show as politically incorrect since there is a lot of talk of Christmas and Jesus. I love it.

Today I stopped at Dahl's near our house to mail our Christmas cards, and outside was a man ringing the bell for The Salvation Army donations. This guy was so funny. You could hear him inside the store and all through the parking lot. MERRY CHRISTMAS! he was saying at the top of his lungs, how refreshing to hear those words. I heard one woman say "its so nice to hear you say that" so he says "well than I'll say it again-"MERRY CHRISTMAS" When I said Merry Christmas to him he said PRAISE THE LORD, I think he was about as politically incorrect as you can get.

More gingerbread fun!

The Sustala's
The Patterson's
The Singleton's
The Singleton's
The Adair's

Fun with Gingerbread!

The Workman's
The May's
The Cecil's
The Smith's
The Brown's

&

The Wilson's

Last night we had a potluck/gingerbread house night for church. It was soooo much fun. The food everyone contributed was awesome. The kids got along well and it was a great time for fellowship. I tried to take some pictures but got a little distracted and didn't get a whole lot. I was totally excited for last night and got crafty this week with some things, I'll post some pictures of that later. Here are some pictures of all the families hard at work. We had a few more families who had signed up but of course with this wonderful time of year comes lots of sickness too. We missed all of you who couldn't join us.

This is why I love being a MOM!

My friend Sharlotte sent me a link with her 3 boys and I was cracking up. I had to make my own. This is sooo funny, someday my children will hate me, but oh well that's why I'm the mom!

Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy!


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And What I'm Not Thankful For....

Bathtub 1 - Cale 0

We got home from Shawn's Dad's house around 4:30 yesterday, we planned to start a fire and hang out. Shawn and I told the boys to go get in the tub and that is about where are night of relaxing ended.... Cale fell when he got shortly after he got in, and if you know Cale he got right up "I'm OK" then he fell again. This time he was crying, I was like your OK, then I went to get jammies. Colby says Mom Cale's bleeding.... So off we went to Blank ER, and I can tell you that is not a good place to be on Thanksgiving night. I said it's a good thing Cale is on an antibiotic for a sinus infection or who knows what he probably would have gotten. I kept telling Colby don't touch anything. So keep us in your prayers that we don't get what ever was floating around in there.

We arrived at 5:30 and were discharged at 9:15. Four stitches later we are all recovering.

Note: this is the 3rd time Cale has split his eye open, left eye-coffee table-glue to the eye, right eye-dining room chair-butterfly strips, left eye-bathtub-stitches. I'm ready to put him in a bubble until he's 20.