I wish

Toys I once had or had the opportunity to play. they don't make them like they used to. really the mini caboodles and the original polly pockets is all I really want.

But many of the tiny toys could probably hurt/kill someone and probably have but I'm pretty sure most of these companies were bought out and that's why they don't make awesome toys anymore.

It came it finally came!

So this whole past Christmas season I kept replaying in my head an Ariel Christmas special and I was telling Gerald about it on Christmas morning and I decided to look it up on youtube. Youtube has everything right? not if it was never an animated film it turns out it was a read-a-long book and tape set. So I went to amazon.com and ordered it right away and Gerald says to me "Merry Christmas." Well it arrived in the mail yesterday and we set up the ol' tape player and Aurora and I loved it. and then I wrote a review on amazon for it I used the word "great" . . . a lot. I should have used a thesaurus.  

Christmas Magic

 we didn't do it all ourselves

 we felt a lot of love this year

total concentration

elf on the shelf

 Meet our elf Little
(Lorraine gave each family one)

 I forgot to take pictures everyday and he sometimes forgot to move until right before the kids got up but it was fun to have Aurora look for him every morning..

Thanksgiving Pictures!

family picture

The day after Thanksgiving the whole family (everyone but Ken P. and Able) went over to the park near my parents house and my friend, Betty came and took pictures for us. Photographing that many people makes for some funny faces especially from the kids. After we took the big family picture Betty took pictures for each family and I have mine so I'm posting it.

I look forward to seeing the rest of the family photos. I love pictures.

It's hard for me to realize we took these pictures two weeks before mom passed away and now it has been almost a month since she passed. I keep wanting to call her and ask silly questions about returning fish to petsmart.