Unlikely Thug...

Here's a shot of our little rapper.
Okay, really we were at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens
looking at lights when we got this shot. Probably there
were not any rappers there. I may have seen one by the
make your own potpourri stand... but I'm not sure.

Anyway, pardon my absence. We have been without
cable (gasp!) and therefore Internet for a few days.
So I'm back. Will catch up on Christmas in the next
few days. :) Until then...

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

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The Outtakes

Every year as a special Christmas treat, I subject
my family to rounds and rounds of photo shoots
in order to get just the right picture for Christmas
cards. This year was no different. Here are the
ones that are soooo close and not so close that did
not make the cut. Adding a baby to the mix
was definitely more interesting.

Here we are, Andy and I know all about the automatic
feature of our camera... Evan is wondering why the
camera is beeping and flashing.

This one was near the end. Grandpa helped with
this round... and Evan is showing off for him.
But not smiling.

Adjusting mid shoot. Working so hard. Are we done yet?

This one almost made it... but lets face it...
my hair looks weird. And if we have taken
2,000 pictures, I don't want to send a
weird hair shot. You do get the sense of
Evan's active personality though.

So this is what you will not be getting in the mail this year.
I wonder what you might get? What a mystery!

55 pages later...

This post is admittedly not as cute as Evan...
however I am having my own little celebration
for myself over here because just minutes ago
I finished my Structured Group project. It is
55 pages of my own thoughts. Wow. Though
I do not want to do it again, it is pretty cool to
have in writing a six week group for middle
school girls that I designed and scripted word
for word. I am glad it is through, and am
thankful that there were no meltdowns,
or major procrastination. I rather
handled this project like an adult. :) My
prayers were answered for this project to
be finished smoothly without any stress flowing
over onto Evan or Andy. Yay!

10 months and some days

December 1st Evan turned 10 months old.
Here he is in all his 10 month glory!

Gobble Gobble!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.
We had a fun gathering including my mom, Harrison,
Walter and his girlfriend Adrienne all got together
at the Schmidt's for a big mid afternoon feast.
The food was yummy and conversation was good too.
Here we all are.


It was especially fun to give Evan some Thanksgiving
meal too. He loved all of it as much as the rest of us.
Here is Auntie Em playing with Evan. He is such a busy
boy, it takes putting a colander on your head to keep
him occupied! Go Emily!

Here's Walter and Evan, both stuffed and contented.

Me and mom taking a turn cleaning dishes.

Gus hoping for scraps. He got plenty.
Walter and Adrienne the "power couple" who dominated
in Uno. I think they may have cheated...but I can't really talk.
Margie and Emily having some Evanly time.
Mike taking his turn occupying the busy boy.
What a special Thanksgiving this was. Makes me look
forward to Christmas even more!