Santa was so very nice to us....

The kids got fun stuff to play with (3 new wii games- Mario Party 8, Boogie Superstar (sining one) and wii music). K got from Santa a guitar hero game for her DS so she can rock out on her own! Ana got a new to her phone and new ringtones, some cool ugg style boots. Both girls got a ton of new clothes to model at school for at least a week :) LOL





Brett got a cool new turntable that converts vinyl records to digital music! My mil graciously brought a "few" of her collection so we can give it a try this break! Brett hasn't done it yet as his truck is giving him fits. It's been such a good truck..never giving us a problem for the last 10 years. It has to last a few more years, as I got the new car this year because of problems with the Expedition. Come on truck be nice... :) We had to replace a part for the 4wheel drive right before Christmas and now it's the battery causing havoic.

I was due for an upgrade on my phone....so Ana got my old phone (so new to her) and I got this!


Brett also came through... I've been drooling over a digital SLR.. but he kept saying it's way to expensive still. But low and behold.. this was under the tree for me!!


I'm in heaven and a little intimidated by it.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday so far! One more week of vacation left!! :)

I did do a layout here with a few of the Christmas memories!

Dancing in the dark...

Another production of Lisa's camera. Middle School dance team and high school cheerleaders doing a cool light stick routine. :)

For your viewing pleasure...

I'm pleased to bring a Lisa's camera production of OKMS dance team.. well our girl on the dance team.

Yes, she is the 2nd girl behind the little on in front for the first part! I lost track of her during the pom part but she's there for you to see :)

Fall time is here...

We played a bit in the leaves today... Can't believe it's the middle of November already!


I'm still looking for the perfect photo for christmas cards. K was not being cooperative today, so needless to say there are few "good" photos I got of her today!

Brett celebrated his birthday last week after an exhausting day of running kids around to various functions and then supervising a basketball game while I was still doing Parent/Teacher/Conferences. He now has the new tiger woods 09 tour golf game to play on the Wii. Made him low carb cheesecake late last night that we need to cut into tonight to celebrate. :) Just didn't have time before to make this!

A is doing dance team at school and they performed at half time on Thursday which I missed due to the above mentioned activity. I hope someone takes pity on me and shares what they took of video and such :)

We continue to try to figure out what is happening with K's cough. First thought was ashtma, then after a month of treatment..the next thought was her allergies. So to cover all bases we are seeing the ashtma/allergy specialist here on Tuesday. Hope to have some better answers. Though it seems that her cough has gotten better in the last few days.

So I'll leave you with a layout I just finished with the new collab kit that is coming out soon from SBB designers (Amy C's stuff is in there :))

She can see clearly now...

she has glasses!! Last year she was fine when we checked her eyes...this year not so much! :) We did find really cute frames though. What do you think?

Be Our Guest... and an "offical" teenager in da house!

All I can say is wow..!!!

I've been behind the scenes for the dress rehersals and for the 1st performance but I don't think you get the whole WOW factor until you sit in the audience and only worry about watching!! Last night the family went (with mil) and watched!! it was great! I got a few clips of my own little napkin performing her heart out (including coughing fit in middle of stage :))

Here is the first clip :



2nd clip:



and the last clip of them chasing the villagers :)




It's official... she's a teen!! We were laughing at how much she's changed since she was a babe!! Check out our walk down memory lane :)

Ana day 1:










I love ya girl!!! :) big hugs to my grown up girl :)

School is cool....

at least the pictures are this year! :) Woo hoo! We're celebrating!! for the first time EVER for Karina we are happy with the FIRST picture they took :) Honestly, in Kinder we didn't like even the retakes. 1st grade, retakes, 2nd grade--retakes and 3rd grade.. yep retakes! 4th grade is the magic year! hee hee

What do you think??


Here is A: :)


Ana didn't seem to change much between this year and last.. just a little more grown up looking but the same smiley face!

both girls seem to have sticky upy hairs there..but over all good pics!! I bought the copyright to these photos so I can post them, print them, etc. etc. :) Costco does a good job with printing for a great price!!

I'll leave you with a sneak peak of Miss Napkin herself... K :) Dont' want to show you the whole thing.. it will spoil it for the performance :) LOL