The Blog-A-Thon of 2008

I didn't blog for almost a month. The reason why? I never had time to upload pictures from my camera. Until my memory card ran out of room yesterday and I was forced to. Then and there I realized why I like taking pictures. It helps me to remember! I also like blogging for this same reason, I hope to have my blog printed into a book one day so my kids will be able to read it and be mad at me for writing overly personal things and showing the world pictures of them in their underwear. I Love You Boys!!

I am going to attempt to blog a little about what has been going on the past few weeks.

Thomas went on what was suppose to be a three day TDY to Hawaii, ended up being gone 4 weeks and missed Thanksgiving with us. Thanksgiving morning we went out to the beach in a sad attempt to get a Christmas card picture. The boys weren't very cooperative though and I didn't get any I was very proud of. So I ended up using a picture my dear friend Katherine took back in April. How lame is that? The picture is beautiful and I was very proud to show it off, but the kids look so different now! Oh well! Next year I will start that process in October.

Oh, and in case you didn't receive one in the mailbox, here you go :)



Anyhow, back to Thanksgiving. We went to take pictures and left the beach just as it started pouring rain! The Biek Family was kind enough to have us over last minute for a Thanksgiving Dinner that was so delicious. Thank You Bekah!

Soon after Thanksgiving we started putting up Christmas decorations. We haven't made it to putting the lights outside yet and I am thinking we probably won't as we only have a few more days until Christmas. The boys and put up two trees this year. The one downstairs has all of our ornaments on it, then a smaller one upstairs with origami ornaments we made. Cranes are no easy creatures to make out of paper!

We have also been very busy making gifts for neighbors and friends. I found a recipe for homemade marshmallows. Did you know you could make marshmallows at home? I had no idea!? It was alot of fun and the boys really enjoyed watching the process, it was fun to see it go from dry ingredients to a liquid then a fluff and then our final products, peppermint marshmallows. It was a huge sticky mess, and not something I think I will do except for at Christmas time.
After they were all ready to go we packaged them up with some homemade Cocoa and gave them to a few friends, then made more for Teachers, and last night I made the 6th batch to give to neighbors. I'm marshmallow'd out!



Ok, I think thats enough for this post, I will try to do one more tonight!