Our Family

These are the pictures we could get. It is always interesting to try to get everyone in the right place at the right time, and smiling in the same direction. So, we ended up with more than a few pictures that are pretty funny. Those are the ones I SHOULD be posting.

Our kids have been up to their funny tricks again.

We went home for Thanksgiving last month and while we were there, Will got into my makeup in the middle of the night. I walked into the room he and Wally were sharing at about 2:30 in the morning, to find Will sitting with a full face of makeup, wearing a bonnet! I am talking mascera on his lashes and all. I was laughing so hard trying to take it all in, that I didn't notice Wally, sound asleep with his face all done up too. Will had applied Wally's makeup while he was asleep, and Wally didn't even wake up. He was surprised in the morning, to find his natural beauty enhanced. He did have it smeared all over his hands, and in his hair, so he put up some kind of fight in his sleep!

The next day, Wally brought Del a bunch of paper taped together and told him that he had made a present. Del opened it and pulled out a piece of paper cut into a rectangle with drawing on it.

"Thanks! What is it?" Del asked.

Wally answered, " It is a savings bond!"

He is definitely his father's son. Who else would be giving the gift of a savings bond at age five? Now Del just has to wait around for about twenty years, and maybe they will let him cash it in. Savings Bond? What is this, 1943? What a funny boy!

When Nursery Kids Attack

On Sunday, our poor little Georgia was involved in an attack in nursery. A little boy whose mother is investigating the church charged her and scratched her face up pretty good. It was so sad to have her handed to me with blood all over her face from all the cuts. She was happy to leave church that day, and is fine now, but it shook me up a little. The mother of the little guy who scratched her felt pretty bad, as you can imagine. But if anyone knows what it is like to have your kids do things you want to die when you hear about, it is me, so I could only tell her not to feel too bad.

Lets just say we send our kids to church to get their street smarts. When Will was less than a year old, another kid almost took a chunk out of his face with a hard bite. So we are just breaking Georgia in. I guess you could say we are teaching them to "turn the other cheek."

Must Be Santa, Santa Claus!

I had to use that title because Will has been singing that Christmas song non-stop. I believe we will be hearing it in his school program next week. I can tell he has been practicing.

This weekend our cute neighbors invited us over to sit on Santa's lap. The kids got their chance to tell him what they want for Christmas... a dinosaur Transformer, Geotrax, and a baby.

Wally had a nice little conversation with Santa.



Will liked Santa, but not enough to sit on his lap.


Georgia wanted nothing to do with the poor man...until he gave her a present.


Then she ripped right into it.

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