Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year Everyone!! Here's hoping that 2009 is better than 2008!! We don't really do much on New Years Eve, as I don't really like being out with all of the drunks. ;-) So usually we just stay in, and this year was no exception. We made lots of snack food, played some board games and then watched the New Years shows. All 3 of the little ones crash WAY before midnight so it's only Lindsay and Kara that make it to watch the ball drop (and as you'll see by the pics, one didn't). We had a great time and I hope all of you did too!! ;-)

Happy New Year!!



I'm still WIDE awake!! (which is a shock because she falls asleep at the drop of a hat usually)



Lindsay's not going to make it to midnight!!


They love each other...sometimes

And the Angiogram results are.....

NO BLOCKAGES!!!! YAY!!! Thanks so much everyone for all your prayers and good thoughts, they really helped! Jeremiah had his Angiogram done this morning and everything looked great with his heart. This is a HUGE relief for everyone. Now we just have to do some other tests to find out why he is having the chest pain but the biggest thing has been ruled out. YAY!! Happy dance.....

Christmas Present Insanity!!

Well here we are, another Christmas and another year that mom and I seriously over buy. Honestly, as you'll see, my Christmas tree is almost dwarfed by the amount of presents crowding around it and my family room is cut in half. One of these years, as we're wrapping the insane amount of boxes, when we say "they won't get this much next year" we will actually mean it. Although, I doubt it. lol. Here is proof of that....

Christmas Eve

Hi Everyone! I hope your all having a great Christmas Eve. Today has been a pretty busy day here. We have made cookies for Santa and my mom came over since she's spending the night with us for a couple of days and we made Deviled Eggs. YUM!! Then we ate dinner and the kids opened presents that they had bought for each other at school (we need the room under the tree..lol). We made sure that we kept a good eye on on where Santa was with Santa Tracker so that we knew when he was getting close then it was time for bed. Sorry there aren't any pictures yet. I have a really bad cold and am just generally feeling like crud but I promise that I will take and post some of everything that happens tomorrow. Well, as soon as I am sure that everyone is tucked away sleeping in their beds, mom and I have a LOT of wrapping to do.

Have a wonderful Christmas!!!!

Love,
Melissa, Jeremiah, Sharon, Lindsay, Kara, Austin, Kaylee and Jenna

11 yr old Blackmail.....

Kara told me I needed post a picture of the things she just made on the blog "Or Else"....so here you go. Introducing, Fred and Snow Manny.

Craft Time...

You know how when kids are too quiet you start to wonder what's going on? Well, that's exacly what just happened. With 5 kids around usually it sounds like WW3 around here, so when they are quiet I get nervous. Well, I walked into the kitchen and apparently it was craft time. How cute. They were all in there making snow flakes. Awww....

Ok, who ordered the snow?!?

Earlier yesterday they said there was a storm coming, then they said we might get a dusting, now I look out my front windows and see this!! And I just got a call from Jenna's school that she will have all day kindergarten today because they are not letting buses run right now for her to come home. lol. I bet she loved that. ;-)

You can't see it very well but it's snowing really hard in this picture....