Daffodils

On Sunday after church, Christopher and I went with my dear friends, Amie and Jason, and their two little girls Caitlyn and Calista, to the daffodil fields at Wye Mounain. It was the first time Chris and I had ever been. It was a beautiful afternoon. An old friend of mine from school was meeting Amie and Jason their to take some family pics and she ended up taking some of Christopher and I too. I can't wait to see them, but for now here are a few I took.

Why is this kid hanging on me?

Chris, "Uncle J" and Cali

Great pic if my hair wasn't in the way!

Happy w/her animal cracker

Haven't quite got this flower thing figured out

Cait followed Chris everywhere

How cute is that face on her??

In response to me telling him to "be cute"

Cali fell asleep holding my finger. So sweet!

On Sunday Christopher and I went with my dear friends Amie and Jason, and their two little girls Caitlyn and Calista, to the daffodil fields at Wye Mountain. It was the first time Chris and I had ever been. It was a beautiful afternoon. An old friend of mine from school was meeting Amie and Jason there to take pics of their family and she ended up taking some of Chris and I too. Can't wait to see them, but for now here are some I took.

Through a Six Year Old's Eyes

So I came across these pictures and I had forgotten all about them. One morning back towards the end of October, I gave Christopher my cameral and let him take all the pictures he wanted between our house and school on the way to school one morning. I wanted to see what kinds of things he took pictures of and to kind of see through the eyes of a six year old little boy. Here are some of the ones I thought were kind of neat, and/or came out clear enough to post, lol.

Christmas (Yes I know it's almost Valentine's Day)

Um, ok, so Christmas. Yes, I'm running a little behind. Christmas was wonderful this year (or, um, last year). All of us got together at Mom and Dad's, and of course Kevin was home for Christmas this time so that made it all the better. We opened presents, ate dinner, played games, and watched a movie. I don't usually make a huge deal out of Santa Claus. I mean he "brings" Christopher presents and everything, but I've never gone all out. This year, I guess b/c we're in our very own house, I did it up a little, all the while emphasizing the true meaning of Christmas, which I am proud to say he knows really well. We made cookies and left cookies and milk out for Santa. I had wrapped all of Christopher's Santa gifts in a different kind of wrapping paper to make it seem even more special. Christmas Eve we left the cookies out for Santa and after Christopher had gone to sleep I got rid of the cookies, drank the milk, and put his presents out. I even wrote a little thank you note from "Santa" for the cookies. Christopher ate it up! Krissy, Kevin, and I made Mom and Dad a little scrapbook in which we all wrote, in our own handwriting, our memories of Mom and Dad and things about our childhood. They loved it. Mom did not disappoint-I knew she would cry, although she held it to the very end and for a minute I thought she was going to get through it without shedding a tear. In one of the pics of Mom and Dad looking at it you can see Billy off to the side looking like "Oh my gosh is this over yet!". And oh yes, the dogs were of course part of the festivities too.

Halloween

Ok I know it's after Christmas and I'm just now posting Halloween, but I tried to post this sucker three times before Christmas and it kept kicking me out every time I tried to rearrange the pics. So here it is and I didn't try messing w/the pics this time which is why they look weird if they do. Halloween was really fun this year. Christopher was dressed as NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, who is apparently really whiny. No really, people made comments all night and apparently not many people are fond of him. But it was better then the Jeff Gordon costume we could have gotten!! LOL! We started off stopping by Nana's (Christopher's step-grandma) office. Then we met at Michael's parents house to show the kids off to them and then went to St. Joseph's tent-or-treat. Of course they all racked up the candy. But it didn't even end there. We then went to my mom & dad's to show them off and finish off the night by actually trick-or-treating around their neighborhood. Their next door neighbors Paul & Jamie hooked their four wheeler up to a trailer filled with hay and a bunch of people from the neighborhood rode the hayride through the neighborhood, stopping every few feet to run up to the houses, get their loot, and run back to the trailer. It really was the way to trick-or-treat. We had a lot of fun but were sooo tired at the end of the night. At least the rain held off!

The Dilemna of Shingles

Let me just say that there will be no pictures to accompany this blog. Trust me when I say I look horrible and feel worse. Who would have thought at 31 years of age I would have shingles. But here I sit, off work since Wednesday morning with yucky blistery bumps on my forehead, the corner of my eye, and the top of my head. Thankfully I went to the doctor Wednesday and caught it before it got worse. Lord, if it was much worse than this I don't know what I'd do! But I started a seven day round of huge horse pills so hopefully this will clear up by Monday, at least enough that I won't be in such pain or look like a huge freak when I go back to work. My office manager, as I was leaving for the doctor Wednesday morning before I knew what this was, stated I could possibly be becoming a unicorn...ha! And did you know that nausea is part of it too? Ugh! All this from having chicken pox when I was younger. The doctor said that one of the causes of shingles is stress, but I sure didn't think I was THAT stressed out about anything. Anyway, hopefully next time I blog it will be a much more pleasant subject! I'm going to go lay down now.