Christmas Day

 Jeff, Andrea and Zac got new camp chairs for Christmas since ours were wearing out from all the baseball games that we go to.

 Jeff & Jenny's families pitch in together to get Dave & Kathy a sportbrella for Christmas for all the time that they spend sitting out at Zac's baseball games.

Zac & Glasses - What a great looking boy!

Look at all this personality!!

Such craziness!
What a goofball.
And he thinks he is all that and more! Which as his mom he is!!

New kitchen gadets...

Jeff is always calling me the kitchen gadget queen.

Jeff with "his" deep fryer. He is sure enjoying it!


This is my new blender from Blendtec and we haven't even had it a month and have used it over a hundred times to make juice drinks, ice cream shakes, banana bread, humus, pancake batter and creamy potato soup.

Movin' and Shakin' up the house

Well it all started with a new printer that we got for Christmas and thought where is it going to go where we can all have access and use it. For a couple of years now we have used the extra bedroom for our TV room. Now that we are canceling the cable we no longer have a need for a TV room. The Wii had to go in the front room so that we have plenty of room to swing our arms and move around. Leaving the "TV room" open for new possibilities. So I came up with the idea to make it my office and since my desk was in the basement that freed up that room to make it into something else so we created our library which we have wanted for a long time.

So we started moving around all the furniture and decided midstream to paint the office.


So back out the desk and the bookshelves came and to Home Depot we went and decided on Hawaiian Sky for the walls with an accent of Arrowhead Lake on the wall that also has the closet and door. It looks amazing. I am so excited for our new room and most of it was just moving the furniture around to make it more fun for everyone. I think we will be spending a lot of time in our office and library. Just the other day Zac came home from school and went to the Library to read for his 30 minutes and came out an hour later. Doesn't it look great?

Zac testing out the Viola

Zac wanted to test out the viola so we set a time for him to meet with the Orchestra teacher and give it a try. Afterwards I asked him what he thought of it and his repley was, "IT WAS AWESOME!!!" Can you hear him yelling this?? I sure did! How great is it that he is interested in an string instrument. I think it would be a great experience for him!

Jeff's Birthday - 41 years

For Jeff's birthday he asked me to make baked Ziti. It turned out great. Happy birthday sweetheart!