December 25, 2005:

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

December 18, 2005:

Guess what, folks!?!?!  It's snowing in Portland, Oregon!!!  We have about 3-4 inches of snow on the ground with heavy gusts of bitter cold winds.  I don't know if the snow will last till Christmas but at least we got to play in the snow this year.  :-) The boys ran around outside with their little friends for about an hour, throwing snowballs at each other, making snow angels on the grounds and building a small snow fort at the end of the driveway.   Then they finally came in for some nice yummy hot chocolate.  Their faces were red and raw, their fingers were practically frost-bitten and they were completely covered in snow from head to toe.  I wouldn't have it any other way....  :-D

December 15, 2005:

Argh, I'm stressed... I just want to state for the record that I'm currently experience a heavy dose of holiday stress.  It's 3:00pm and the only thing I've had to eat all day was two peanut butter cookies.  Not healthy.  Bad, very bad.   As soon as I got the kids off to school this morning, I was out the door to do some last minute holiday shopping.  I also had to get to class by 11:30am today.  (I was a bit late, oops.)  Then I got this really cool idea for an x-mas gift during class (when my mind should be on the knee joint lecture) and so when class ended, I  raced over to this place in Beaverton to pick up said items and made it home just in time to pick up the kids at the bus stop.  *whew!*

 ***Now, them crazy kids are home...must get them a snack.... must get them to practice their recital piece one more time because their Christmas piano recital is in 1/2 hour... must iron their dress shirts and put them in their holiday best... must remember to bring the digital camera to take pictures...must pick up dinner on the way home 'cuz there's really no time to cook tonight... must give them baths after dinner and then make sure homework is done and then it's off to bed for the chibbles... ***  <sigh>

December 6, 2005:

Kids can be really funny sometimes.  They have their own weird sense of humor.  Case in point, so, DJ is curled up on the living room couch fast asleep _snoring_ up a storm... meanwhile, the boys are quietly playing in the same room:

Patrick: "Jarod, do you want to try something funny?" *evil grinning smirk on his face*

Jarod: "Try what?" *oblivious to his silly antics*

Patrick: "Can you say, 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' .... um, right NOW!"  *giggle*

Jarod: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!"  *with a smug expression*

Patrick: "No, that was too slow. Do it again but wait........um...and... NOW! *stifled laughter*

Jarod: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!"  *triumphantly*

Patrick: "No, no, you're doing it all wrong!  You have to say it BETWEEN Dad's snoring!"

Jarod: "Oh." *indifferent but feeling slightly competitive*

Patrick: "Ready, GO!" *grinning ear-to-ear*

Jarod & Patrick: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!" *both boys burst into fits of giggles*

December 3, 2005:

I updated the chibbles section with some new pics...  :)  *I did this as a kid, too!*

December 2, 2005:

Remember that smiley-face that I found in my Ben & Jerry's Uncanny Cashew ice cream last month?  Well, DJ just sent me a picture of even more ice-cream smiley's...  :-D

December 1, 2005:

I can't believe it's December already.  Sheesh.  Time flies.  It's like somebody pressed the fast-forward button and things are zooming by at lighting speed.  It's gonna be a super-busy month for all of us.  I have two quizzes coming up next Tuesday and three weeks later, I'll be cramming like crazy for my finals in Massage 2.  Then I'll be done for the semester, yay!  The boys and I are trying to come up with something fun/creative for DJ's birthday in a couple of weeks.  Hm, I'm open to any suggestions.  I also need to pick up the holiday picture cards of the boys and start mailing out our holiday cards soon.  I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet and so hopefully I'll be able to do some serious shopping next week after my quizzes are done.  We'll see how much I can get done...   :)

What else... the boys are busy with projects and presentations for school.  Jarod's doing this great speech thingie on M.C. Escher and Patrick's studying a science unit on insects.  They will also be participating in a Christmas piano recital in a couple of weeks on the 15th of December.  I'm so glad they are still interested in playing the piano after all these years.  It's so wicked cool to listen to them play! (I wish I could play an instrument!)  I'll make sure I take pics...

Oh, and last weekend, we put up our Christmas tree in the front window.  There's a radio station playing X-mas music 24/7 and so it's slowly starting to feel like Christmas already...  :)