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Cadee Update

Got a call from our agency the other day looks like we will be traveling from Jan 11th to the 25th, but they are still trying to push the dates up earlier and will let us know by Tues or Wed.

Carlee Update

Carlee had a temp of 102 this morning and is home from school and won't be able to be in the Christmas program tonight :-( Hopefully she will be better tomorrow as Santa is coming to the house tomorrow night at 6 and Gramma Ritzman, Carlee and I will be going on the Santa train on Sunday. So today Carlee and I are confined to the house. I gave her Motrin and her temp is now 98.8 so we will wait and see.

Christmas Photo Out Takes

Today my goal was to get our Christmas Card photos done and printed up at Walmart. We didn't make it to Walmart until 8pm so I guess I'll be picking up the cards next week and hopefully get them mailed before Friday. Anyway here are some out takes of our photo shoot in the living room. ENJOY!!

Starting to get bored with the whole photo thing

I get this look a lot

And this one a lot too

Christmas in the Park

Yesterday we went to Christmas in the Park. It was a lot of fun we asked Carlee's best friend J and her mom N to go along. There was lots of crafts, homemade soaps, Kettle Popcorn, freshly made potato chips and other good food. We ate homemade onion rings, pizza and a fish sandwich. And of course we had to bring home some of the homemade chips and kettle popcorn.

Carlee got to pose with Frosty for a bit. The girls also got to go on a horse drawn carriage ride. But the climax was sitting on the big guys lap. Mrs. Claus just happens to be a dear friend of ours and she just adores Carlee so needless to say the girls got to spend a lot of time talking to Santa however they couldn't remember what they wanted for Christmas. Stage Fright maybe

Side Note: Every time Carlee goes to see Santa she insists on wearing her Santa Dress.

Oh Christmas Tree

Start with a new Lowes' Almost Like Fresh Cut Frazier Fir with 1250 lights (this years Christmas Gift from Mom and Dad)...Add 1000 more lights, 13 years worth of ornaments, some tinsel and some icicles and you get this years Christmas tree. It only took 3 days to finally get it fluffed and everything on it.

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