He anticipates my every need......

Wednesday, 12-9-09

I don't know if this will ever happen again, so I just had to blog it.

Darin and I were talking about appliances that we had on our counter because space is very limited. I told him that I was going to bring the blender back out to make smoothies. I explained to him how Elissa doesn't eat more then two bites of her breakfast, so I was trying to figure out how to get her to eat more before going to school. One of my friends had suggested making a smoothie, so I was going to try that out.

He said that that was a good idea. Then he said that I should probably get one of those hand held blenders to make it easier. I thought that was a good idea, but we would see how the smoothies worked out first.

A few minutes later......

I walk in the kitchen and Darin says, "Wow look at that!" I turn and there is a hand held blender on the counter. I'm in shock for a few seconds and then I'm laughing hysterically......stomach hurting laughing....

I'm looking at him questioningly......why did you buy me a hand held blender?? And what was his answer? Because it was one of the top rated gifts in "Kitchen" on Amazon.com. I'm laughing some more!

He decided that he couldn't wait till Christmas to give it to me because the timing was too perfect.

I'm still laughing as I write this. LOL! :-)

We are certainly a match made in Heaven (thank you Lord!). :-)

Sweet Cousins

Thursday, 12-3-09

This is Elissa passed out in the van after spending the night with Grandma and Papa. Can you say exhausted?! :-)

Earlier in the day, Papa had picked up Cole and took them on an adventure. Papa said that for the first time he felt like just their chauffeur. They didn't pay much attention to him, they were too engrossed with talking to each other.

They were telling each other jokes and stories and just thoroughly enjoying each other. What a blessing!

Cole found the flower clip, that is in Elissa's hair, at the park and gave it to her. Sweet!

I love that they love each other so much. I pray that it lasts a lifetime!

Finished!!

Sunday, 12-6-09
Just had to celebrate that my Christmas cards are done and they will go out tomorrow. Yeah!!

A Night at the Theatre

Saturday, 11-28-09
This summer I got an email to get 1/2 price tickets to White Christmas and I couldn't pass them up. We seen it a few years ago and we (I) thought it was worth seeing again. I ended up getting front row Orchestra tickets!

It was awesome! I don't think I have ever been that close before. We could see their faces and expressions and we were in the section that got snowed on. It was definitely worth seeing again.

It was a fun evening hanging out with my hubby!

The orchestra pit that was right in front of us.

O Christmas Tree!

Saturday, 11-28-09
We made our annual trip to The Red Barn in Orting to get our Christmas tree. We keep on coming here because of the train ride. The kids love it!

Out wandering around trying to find the perfect tree.

I couldn't settle on one, so we went back to the barn to look at the pre-cuts. I love noble's with distinct layers. It is hard to find one that looks "just right".

We ended up getting a pre-cut that was a nice compromise.

On to trimming the tree and getting all our holiday decorations put out.

I love these ornaments.

Then the kids were playing with the Christmas toys. Zach loves this singing snowman from Hallmark. He plays it over and over again and likes to feel the little penguins shake. :-)

Also the Little People manger scene is a hit!

Oh - and the manager scene from Amy Jo that she got the kids while she was in Africa. Zach decided that one of the men was a shooter instead of a wiseman. :-) He went around running after his sister shooting her.

Merry Christmas!

The Christmas Holiday has started!

Friday, 11-27-09
It has been a weird start to the holidays. Thanksgiving Day we ended up staying home because of my cold. I didn't want to spread any of my germs to anyone else. With the swine flu this year, I'm being overly cautious of staying home whenever we aren't feeling the slightest bit good. It is just not a year to take chances and to risk other people's health. So it was a quiet, pretty normal day.

Then I always go shopping on Black Friday with my mom. I just didn't feel up for it this year. I looked through the ads and I didn't really have a game plan, so I decided it would be nicer to sleep in then to get up at 4am.

I was very much looking forward to our 2nd Annual trip to the Sumner Bridge Lighting festivities to finally feel like the holidays were here.

This year Grandma Myrna & Grandpa Frink came with us and Grandma & Papa met us down there.

Working on getting a Christmas card pic.

Such a great photo of them!
Grandma Myrna, Elissa, Zach & Grandpa Frink

Lissy loves her Papa!
(He might think she is pretty special too. :-])

Another great fireworks display....

that everyone was really enjoying!

Especially Elissa!

Grandma's having fun!

The bridge is lit, the fireworks our over and now the Christmas season has begun!I hope your holidays have started with a bang too!

Some serious Peer Pressure

Wednesday-Thursday, 11/25-26/09

You think that after you leave High School and College that you really shouldn't have peer pressure anymore. Comme oooonn.....we are adults now and we shouldn't be pressuring each other to do things. Yeah, right. We quickly learn that there will always be peer pressure. :-)

So for months many of my friends have been trying to get me to read the Twilight series. Seriously, they have been relentless. Kirstin actually bought the first book and sent it to me in the mail. Sheesh people, is it really that big of deal?? LOL!

I originally didn't want to read them because I don't like movies or books about vampires. I don't like scary movies and I don't like to think about "dark" things. I don't want that in my mind. Then I heard that the main character, Edward, is so great that I may think that my husband should be more like him. I don't need anymore fairy tale thinking in my mind. Then it was just because I didn't want to give in and truly, because I knew I would love them and then I wouldn't have time for anything else. :-P

Well, Wednesday I woke up with a bad cold that I thought was going to turn into the flu. That evening when Darin got home, I was feeling pretty bad so I planned to stay the rest of the evening in my room. I decided, hey this would be a great time to start reading Twilight. So I started reading and reading and reading and reading. I read until 1:40am (took a break to watch a movie w/my hubby) and I had to force myself to go to bed. Then my little boy got up just before 6am and Darin got up with him. Well, I was awake so I turned on my light and started reading. :-) I read until about 7:30am when I decided I really needed to go be with my family and put the cinnamon rolls into the oven.

I was so distracted by wanting to read that I wasn't even interested in going through all the Black Friday ads, which is one of my favorite things to do on Thanksgiving. When the kids went down for naps, I was excited for some alone time to try and get thru the book. Darin ran over to Walmart, so I made sure that he would pick up New Moon for me. And the rest are on their way from Amazon. I finished soon after the kids woke up.

So, as you can tell, I'm totally hooked! I've given in to the peer pressure and I'm enjoying it! So now I've got to get off this blog so I can go read some more of New Moon. LOL!