Snow

1st post of the new year

 Sky hanging out on the deck with Chuck and Snoopy

 giving his dada his Birthday cards!

 Moni and Chan waiting for dad to open his gifts

 Happy Birthday Keith!!!!

So whats been going on, The 31st was my 41st birthday, Keith and the kids gave me an excellent day.  I woke up to flowers, candles, cards and a beautiful cake, we spent our new years just hanging around with each other, watched some movies and played some games and at midnight had a little firework show in the back yard.  The 5th was Keiths birthday, Moni and I went shopping for his gifts (so that was fun).  Keith had a good birthday, we made brownies and homemade hot fudge and surprised him with them on the eve of his birthday.  The kids headed back to school and within 3 days I had miss Moni quarantined to her room with a cough, I took her in and sure enough she had whooping cough, so we all have been on antibiotics, and thankfully so far Moni is the only one to catch it!  Being its so contagious, Im still cleaning like a fool and keeping a close eye and Sky and all of us.  I feel better once the 14or 15 is here, if no one has it by then, then we should be good!  Monicas birthday is on the 16th, so she will have her boyfriend over that day for cake and ice cream and the next weekend she is home she will have all her friends over for a sleep over party.  And that is the start of our year in a nut shell!  and our weather has been amazing, almost like a early spring, ha nope weather man says it is all going to change in the next day or two and we are looking at getting snow over the next week....  sigh, I was enjoying the nice weather it reminded me of mid January when I was a kid, oh well bring on the snow!!!!

Praying that 2011 will be the year they find a cure SMA!!!!!

Santa

we all had an amazing time with our Santa visit!  Sky talked Santas ear off (it was very cute)  but then politely told him he could go!!!!!

Happy Birthday Jojo

HAPPY 8th Birthday Jojo!!!!  Skylar wanted to wish you a very Happy Birthday (I did too)  we hope you are having the best day ever!!!!

for those who may not know Jojo he is 8 years old today and has SMA, huge Birthday in our little world.  Skylar and Jojo became friends online playing Little Big Planet!  Skylar will even tell you that Jojo is his best friend, even though these two boys have never met.  Someday they will!!!!

Making Christmas goodies

 pretty happy that the tree is done and I think he thinks they are all for him!

Skylar making his snowman, I think he is pretty happy about how it turned out, it is pretty cute!

 making short bread cookies this morning (: yummm

 enjoying a candy cane while our cookies bake

Skylar has been having lots of fun the past few days, Christmas is a big thing in our home with trees and decorations, baking and shopping.  Id have to say he has the Christmas spirit this year, i love having him in the kitchen with me while the Christmas music is playng, he sings along (even if he dosent know the words)

Random pic

We are ready for Christmas (mostly). Sky has been enjoying all the lights and decorations. His cat Slash is turning into a great pet he is pretty good with Sky.

Getting ready for Christmas

 our homemade ornaments, salt dough with cinamon (:

 Skylar painted this one last night, he did an awesome job!

 Skylar with his Santa letter!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for, ,and I am each and every day thankful for my family, my husband, his wonderful job, my kids, Moni for her awesome brains and goals she has set, Chandler for his love of music and the ability to play anything he sets his mind to, and for Skylar, Im thankful that he is 6 1/2, healthy, smart, kind, beautiful.  I pray everyone have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!

We were lucky to have an early Thanksgiving with Keiths mom last weekend, that was so nice.  it was good to see her and visit, even if for only a few days, love ya mom!

Chan, Grandma Eichele and Moni

 Sky, Moni,
Chan and grandma Eichele

 Sky and his Grandma Eichele

 bowling

 all the kids and Grandma

 Moni and her boyfriend Brendan setting up the tree

 laughing at something I said Im sure

 ah Valentine, she is such a good sport

 Sky is all excited about Christmas

 looking over at his beautiful tree

 enjoying a much needed candy cane after decorating the tree

 tree 1 in the livingroom, Sky told me where everything went, so he actually decorated this tree!

 pretty excited about setting up Christmas

 Moni and Chan waiting on us so they could enjoy the Thanksgiving feast!

 pretty sure these last two pictures sum up what Im thankful for, I love my kids!!!!

Today Im thinking of a family the Bundys, there little boy Aiden passed away 11/9/11 he was only 4 1/2.  Praying they can find peace and love in this Thanksgiving!  Love and miss you Biggie Boy!

Our Pumpkin adventure and Fall colors around Stanwood