TEN YEARS

Yep Darin and I have made it to year number 10 and you know what that means...... all of the small kitchen appliances we got for our wedding have died in the same month! Maybe we should have saved more of the 17 crockpots we got as wedding gifts! In all honesty I love being married to my best friend. Looking back I was so young I am grateful to have met and married such an amazing person! I wouldn't do anything different. Love you Babe!

As a tribute to 10 a never before seen picture from our honeymoon. Enjoy!

Aloha!!

It is literally 8 degrees outside right now but we recreated a Hawaiian paradise in our home to beat the snow. I mean at 8 degrees it is even too cold to have fun and play in the snow. If you value your fingers and toes that is. We made flower leis, surfboards, and even had had fruity drinks with the paper umbrellas. The paper umbrellas were a huge hit. I had to do some convincing on K-man that he really did want sherbet in his sprite. One taste and he was asking for more!

Some of the boy cousins thought the leis weren't very macho but the surfboards were manly enough for them. It was fun listening to the balmy tunes of the islands and jamming out to Surfin USA. With sunglasses like those you almost forget the frightful weather outside.

Christmas

I was really bad at taking pictures this Christmas, I just can't seem to do both pictures and the video camera and this year the video camera won. I did manage to take a picture of our tree and the candy trains the kids made. I missed the opening of the presents and the gingerbread houses that we made. Also I have inherited my mom's Christmas purging gene and the tree and decor all came down Christmas day so I can't even recreate scenes for the camera.

Lando Querks

Our baby has become a toddler and all that implies. His lastest accomplishments include learning how to climb onto the table and practicing daily for the world's furtherest food thrower. He is by far our best sleeper, no rocking, no holding just lay him in his crib with his blanket! He loves the bath and climbs in whether it is his turn or not. Lando loves to eat apples whole!! We love our Lando man!

Thanksgiving

We had a blast on Thanksgiving! All the kids were at my mom's except Jess and company whom we truly missed! Mom of course made an excellent meal and Shanna ate almost all the rolls. Just kidding Shan. But the highlight of getting together now is how much fun the cousins have together. Here is a glimpse of them playing together, in this particular game they were dinosaurs (we had let them watch a few non-maneating, non-scary clips of Jurassic park just before.)

We are Back!

I have been a little distracted by facebook but I have now resumed Blogging! Now we play catch up!