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~Yours Truly~ Christmas Morning 1977~

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Way Back Wednesday!

~December 2001~

Lauren's New Do...

Look what we did today...

Christmas Cuties...

~Lauren & Grandpa~

Piano Recital

Did you like Carter & Taylor's bows?

This and That

At the beginning of December, Dave took Carter on his first deer hunt...

While the girls and I joined my parents at a party for a dear friend who recently beat cancer. Check out the cake...

Isn't that awesome! Lauren said, "Do we have to eat that butt?"

~Taylor, Lauren, & Grandma~

Thanksgiving Break

This post is way past due, but we've been busy so I'm kinda behind. The kids and Dave had the whole week of Thanksgiving off so we decided to use that time to replace all of the baseboards downstairs with new, taller baseboards. How hard could it be, right? It turned out to be a HUGE job and took us a couple of weeks to finish...we didn't finish until last weekend! First we had to remove the old baseboards... Getting them off without breaking the tile was a giant pain!

Then, we painted the new baseboards, cut them to fit, nailed them to the wall, filled all the nail holes, repainted over nail holes (twice), and caulked. It was A LOT of work...

The next pictures shows the new baseboards on the left and the old on the right. Can you tell a difference? You better say, "Yes!" :) After we finished the baseboards we had new carpet put in downstairs...

I think it was worth it now, but we still have to do the upstairs which I'm kinda dreading. I love how crisp and clean the new baseboards look though...Don't you?

We worked the entire week besides Thanksgiving day (can you believe I forgot to take pictures?) We had friends and family over which was very fun. One evening, we did manage to take Carter & Lauren to a Texas Stars Hockey game (Taylor opted to hang with a friend) which was fun....

Now we are frantically trying to get ready for Christmas!

Way Back Wednesday!

~December 2002~

Way Back Wednesday!

Santa Baby...

~December 2001 (Lauren was 9 months old)~

Winter Band Concert

Carter had his first band concert Wednesday night. It was awesome. He plays the trumpet...

They played several songs. My favorite was The Little Drummer Boy...

One of the things they do in sixth grade is have each band student teach one of their parents to play Jingle Bells on their instrument. The reasoning behind this is that the best way to learn is to teach. Then, the night of the concert, they invite all the parents up to play for the audience. Carter chose to teach Dave. Dave's goal was to play loudly and if you listen, you can totally hear him...It was hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing. He looked like a blow fish about to pop! :) Check it out...

Isn't that the funniest thing ever! Did you notice the kids around him turning to look at him and laughing? Taylor said that her friends were talking about this "weird guy" at the concert that was "really tall and played the trumpet SO loud." Mission accomplished. :)