This, that and other things…

Here is our Christmas tree, in negative view! Cool, huh?

Last week we were at Brit’s for Elizabeth’s first birthday party. Here are a few pictures from that day.

She wasn’t sure if she liked the hat…

“No, grandpa, you can’t have my cake!”

Grandpa was helping her walk…”don’t you love my dress?”

Today is Lauren’s birthday. She is 22. We all told the boys that she is pregnant. They seem fine with it. Not too many questions for now.

Last night I had a hard time sleeping or should I say falling asleep. I did all the tricks I knew to try and fall asleep and none of them worked. Phil was snoring a lot, which didn’t help things. I prayed, I asked myself what was I feeling, I tried to make a mental list of what I was thinking of, what was stressing me out and no such luck at that getting things off my mind. If anything it made it worse.

Today I had nursery duty at church and talked with the other helper about adoption. She adopted her son 14 months ago. She gave me information about a place to call or have Lauren call. I am not sure she can do it, but we have to look into it.

Finally, I am doing something special for Phil for our anniversary later this month. I am having our wedding pictures, or some of them, reprinted and put onto a CD. Then I will get some enlargements and frame them. We don’t have any wedding pictures up. We have few pictures of us as a couple. We had one taken with the fake Niagara Falls backdrop when we visited about 3 years ago. I will frame that one too. I have to get over the fact that I look fat in pictures. By not putting them up won’t make me look any skinnier. Hiding them is not the answer. I might as well have them up and displayed because it’s who I (we) am. Ok time to go make Lauren her birthday dinner of steak.

What menu?

Too sick to think about food. I will post a menu when I can think of food and not want to retch. We all came down with a virus or bug of some kind here at my home. I spent most of last night emptying puke buckets and washing my hands. I also spent a lot of time tossing and turning due to my own stomach starting to feel yucky. I finally crawled out of bed at 11:35 AM! The boys had the worst of it since they were puking so much. By 3:00 AM they were done and their stomachs were empty of anything left to retch. I felt like I had a newborn in the house!

Well I did have Elizabeth here for a few days before we all got sick. Hopefully her and her mommy and daddy stay healthy. Here are a few pics to share from my time with them. Oh yeah, on Friday my pc crashed and I lost everything on it. We had to reformat the hard drive. In trying to fix my pc, I think Jonathan goofed up Phil’s graphic card on his pc because he can’t get any games to run. Oh well. Hopefully it’s a cheap fix. On to the pictures.

Elizabeth and Uncle Jake

Elizabeth and Grandpa

Elizabeth and Uncle Caleb

Elizabeth, after a nap!