Dad & Mom come home soon....Remmy

Dear Dad & Mom (Mike and Staci),
I hope you are having fun in TX, but you have got to come home soon. Chance is driving me crazy, play play play that is all he wants. I thought Trevor was bad!!! I finally started playing with him just to get him to leave me alone and I suppose it is fun, but don't tell anyone! The littlest kid here just keeps hugging me. Every time I walk by he grabs me and gives me a huge hug!!! Sigh, I'm almost all licked out. Well that'll never happen, got Chris reallllllly good last night!

You know how you tell me not to eat dead stuff, well you were right, made me sick, but I felt much better after I threw up the fourth time.

Finally, please come home, they dressed me up in moose antlers, took pictures and posted the picture on the internet. Crazy people here!
Remmy

Merry Christmas--long

The actual Christmas holiday has come and gone. I have just gotten around to posting a blog. I am a sad soul that gets "homesick" for the home of my childhood during Christmas the most. I still just love the Christmas Eve open house that my mom puts on and the fun of waking up in my childhood bed Christmas morning and seeing mom, brothers and sisters. That being said, we had a lovely Christmas here in KS. A scrumptous meal at Chris' folks Christmas Eve complete with Christmas carols on Dad's new guitar amp. Christmas morning bright and early I had the joy of reading my Bible with Hans who then read "Room for a Little One" to me. He is struggling with his reading at school. He did it and then looked to see what "level" the book was and was delighted that it was not even rated. That was special for me. Mom and Dad A came over for breakfast Christmas morning and we made the kids wait to open presents until they got there! Then Dad (chris) read the Christmas story from 2 books in the Bible.. AGH! They thought they would die waiting! It was lots of fun and we thank those aunts, uncles and cousins who showered them with gifts. Then we had a "roast beast" Christmas dinner at Bill and Paula's house with more presents. Great Grandma gave us a dvd we watched that night.

Putting Collin to bed he had this to say, "Christmas is not as enjoyable as when I was little," {tee hee hee, he is 10} "I want to focus on Jesus and God's gift and then there are all the presents, but they don't make me feel happy." We discussed how the joy of presents do not last, but the joy from filling that God shaped hole inside lets us enjoy our presents more because we do not expect them to make us happy. Sigh, my child is growing up!

"She thinks my tractor's sexy!"

Ok, I do not listen to country radio, but over the summer at the pool we would hear this song broadcast on the radio. It was time to retire an older tractor, so I am thankful that God blessed us enough this year to be able to update to newer model. This will hopefully make work easier and more efficient for Christopher! And I suppose if ever a tractor was sexy, this one is!!! Alan thinks it is pretty cool!

Go Erin, Go Erin...

Now that it is basketball season, Erin's gymnastic's class has another arena for exhibition! So we watched the girls and boys basketball games and our dear daughter spin and tumble! It is always fun to watch her grow up and her skills improve!! I wish I had a better camera (dear santa...) but here are some pictures. This is her back walk over in slow motion.

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

No matter how much I plan ahead, it seems like this week in December sends me into, "Oh my gosh I have to get this done, that done, this done" etc. It's so important not to get caught up in that! We are in the time of Christmas programs and mailing Christmas cards, at least the out of town ones. We had a Christmas program last night for the K-4 grade at school and then our church program is the 17th. Collin had some singing parts in the program and he "acted" as a football player dancing ballet. It was very funny. I have it on VHS, so when I get it onto DVD I'll upload a clip. Erin and Hans did a good job in the chorus as well.

We are decorating for Christmas slowly, as I am also putting up so new/ refurbished shelves and quilt racks in the living room. So I will leave you with some fun Christmas light pictures.

Do NOT get tangled up in Holiday madness!

Foster sons...

What a treat the kids had today! Paul and John came over and played football with the kids today and they had a great time. I am not sure what made the college boys put helmets on, but it made us smile :o)The kids had a great time anyway, John and Paul were great sports. Even the calves came to watch!!! John and Paul think they want to graduate in the spring of 07, we think they should stay close to SC!!! I waited too long to take pictures, so they were shaded and grainy. Actually, I got recruited to play football which was fun. Hans got to lay mom right out on her butt! Hmmm, I thought it was tag-football!

O Christmas tree

THe Anderson family Christmas tree has been purchased. It was a chilly December day, sunny but cold. We were full on too much pizza and Walmart, so the exercise of running through the trees to pick the one to adorn our living room was much needed. Here of course are a few pictures to enjoy. The pictures are at the tree farm where we got our tree. Wish it was my living room all decorated like that!

Collin's recital

I am trying to upload video from Collin's recital piece, Up on the Housetop. He did a nice job and nailed it perfectly. Way to go Collin! Just click on the title to this post "Collin's recital" and it will take you there.

Goodbye for now...

Over the past 3 months we have had Chris' brother Phil and his family with us in Kansas during the weekends while they did their missionary training in KS City and then debutations around central Kansas. It has been a wonderful time of getting back in touch with family and cousins and for me friends. Remembering that it was Phil and Denise that set Chris and I up 13 years ago (December 1993) Wow, it's like anniversary time, since it was while they were out visiting Chris for Thanksgiving that they thought he was lonely and needed a companion. So when I went for my clinical supervision one day she talks to me about her brother in law! Hmmm, who would have thought? So here is a picture of us cuddled up on mom and dad a's porch.