Archives for December 2007

That basically describes today. As per the norm around here, we got out of the house at lunch at went to eat at our favorite restaurant D’Atri’s to have the best cheese steak on earth.

After that, we ran around town doing some shopping. Part was in historic downtown (see pictures in the more section) and then Mom and Dad went home with the girls and dropped the rest of us off at the mall for some kid-free shopping. Wow. We walked in and I literally didn’t know what to do. I only had one present left to buy today and not a clue what to get so we literally browsed the entire mall. It actually wasn’t as great as I remembered. Except the Cinnabon part. That was still excellent. I did manage to get that last present and it feels GREAT to be done. Five days to spare too.

This evening was low-key. Mom made spaghetti here at the house and Mom and Dad went out shopping. Now we are watching Napoleon Dynamite if that says anything about how exciting our evening is.

Now if you like, Scott and I did a little mini photo shoot while the grandparents attended the children in the toy store and then joined us afterwards…click on More to see.

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After a long day, we made it to Maryland!

This morning was the girls Christmas program at school.  It was very cute but mostly uneventful except that Emma and her friend were getting a little too excited when their color was shown for them to ring their handbells and were called down by their teacher.  I was surprised Emma didn’t just cry on stage but she handled it ok.  The handbells were so sweet and I’ll have to talk to our music director about getting that at our church.

As soon as it was over we headed up the road and after a stop to my uncle’s we got here around 11 I think.  The girls fell asleep on the way from my uncle’s and somehow managed to stay asleep when we put them in bed.

Everyone else is up catching up on tv and Internet.  That’s it for now although I want to write about a quite embarrassing moment today.  Stay tuned.

Today was a bit crazy.  We will be headed out the door around 8:30 in the morning and won’t be back until Sunday night some time.  Today was all the last minute stuff…post office, laundry, snack shopping, last minute gift shopping, new van tires even.  We’ll be in Maryland for the weekend celebrating Christmas with all of my extended family.  I’m sure it will be a few crazy days up there too.

I’m actually looking forward to the morning though.  The kids have to be there at 9 but we don’t have to be there until 10.  I think we’re going to drop them off and spend the time until 10 at McDonald’s or Dunkin Donuts getting some breakfast.  We haven’t done that in months.  Lexi’s fever broke through the night last night so I think she’s good to go to school in the morning and I can’t wait to see them finally singing all their songs.  Emma will get to dress up as an angel since she is part of the 4 year old class.  I can’t believe this will be her last year there.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to no work for a week.  I took the entire day off tomorrow so I’m officially free for a week–well, I have the pager and taking my laptop but that’s the norm.  I’m guessing postings will be limited tomorrow unless I can manage to finagle my dad’s laptop with his air card away from him for awhile.  Seriously doubting that will happen.