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Merry Chirstmas!!!

From our family to yours!!!

(Christmas 2007)

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Pe-Pop and Makenzie snuck off into the kitchen to steal some Christmas cookies.

Get to bed boys and girls, Santa is coming tonight!

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Wow! I toy Mr. Potato Head and a life-sized Mr. Potato Head!

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Christmas 2006

Pretty Miss. Allyson came over so I could take her picture for their family Christmas card.

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Playing with he xylophone I got for Christmas. Santa brought Jase one of these 30 years later.

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This Christmas shirt my dad got sums him up perfecctly!

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Christmas 1980

Andy and me infront of the Christmas tree.

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"I...Saw Mommy kissing...Santa Clause!"

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Me!!!

This was the first Christmas since my parents moved to VA. I made a trip in from WV to spend it with them.

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Sonny

Showing off the goodies Santa left for him.

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What was Santa thinking!?!?! LOL

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Andy was playing with his new wheel barrow and I see grandma back there looking to see if Santa left her a present, too.

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Me and my brother were looking awfully spiffy in our Christmas best! I'm guessing this was our first Christmas with the new addition my dad and his friends built.

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Elena, Makenzie and Sonny

Christmas 2006

This year, we were blessed to have Elena with our family during the holidays. My brother and sister-in-law hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany. They couldn't have hand picked a sweeter girl!

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This is a picture of my brother the year we spent Christmas in South Carolina. He was stationed in the Army this Christmas and stationed in GA. His weekend pass only allowed him to travel so far off of base and home was way to far away. So, my Aunt Barbara and Uncle Frank opened their home up to us and we all shared a great Christmas together.

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My Mom and Dad

They always made our Christmas the best!

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Makenzie the Christmas Elf

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Christmas 1983

I still remember the awesome Strawberry Shortcake toy box I got that year!

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This was our first Christmas with Sonny. Pe-pop was helping him unwrap a present.

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When the holdiays came around me and my brother alway let the spirit of Christmas into our hearts and actually got along! LOL We usually always got along, but Christmas was always so much fun with him!

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Christmas 2004

Andy got opening his Maryland Terrapin slippers.

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Yup, I even dug some old Christmas pictures of Rob. I love this one because it reminds me so much of Jase.

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Me and my brother were posing in the new winter coats that Santa brought us.

Family Photo Friday

Today's picture is from our 1st Annual cookie bake. This was from December 2008. Me and Julie decided to get the kiddos together to make some holiday cookies. Tomorrow is going to be our 3rd Annual Cookie bake and now we are fortunate enough to include so many more family members in this awesome day of baking.

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This is from Christmas of 2000. Me, my roommate, and our friend Martha celebrated a little Christmas before I left to come back home for the holidays. Here, me and Martha are showing off all the goodies we got. I got a new tuke (that's what Canadians call caps) and a beer cap/seat belt belt and Martha got that cool elf hat and a beer cap purse

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I have been going through a bunch of old photographs and have complied a whole bunch of picture from past Christmases. I decided that every day till Christmas, I will share one of these old Christmas photos.

This picture is of me and my brother during one of the Christmases we spent in WV. This is when my grandmother still lived in the old farm house that my dad grew up in.

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Just a couple of couch potatos

Family Photo Friday

This is one of my favorite pictures of my two handsome men. Jase was about 4 months old with the huges cheeks in the world!

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Jase was helping me open my birthday presents.

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This week's Birthday Girls!!!

This picture was taken last month while we were on a hay ride at Bowles Farm

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Playing a game of marbles

Family Photo Friday

Today's picture is in honor of Veteran's Day (yesterday). This is a picture of my brother in Kuwait. He served close to a year over there. I want to take this opportunity to thank him and all of the United States soldiers, past, present, and future.

Family Photo Friday

I choose this picture of today's family photo because today is Miss. Amber's 17th birthday!!! This picture was taken in the butterfly garden at the North Carolina Zoo in 2008.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER!!!

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Trick-or-treating with my little golf pro.

Family Photo Friday

Taking another trip down memory lane (just not as far back this time) to Jase's 1st Halloween! He was just 6 weeks old and the cutest little spider I ever did see! (His daddy wasn't to shabby himself! LOL)

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I got to go with Jase on his very first field trip. We took a very exciting bus ride to the pumpkin patch.

Family Photo Friday

Flashing back in to the 80s for today's photo. With Halloween just around the corner I thought it would be fun to look back on an old Halloween picture of my and my brother. Didn't my mom do such a great job of making out costumes? She made them every year we went trick-or-treating!

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Me and Jase were in the bed testing out the new comforter.

Simple Woman's Day

Outside my window... curtains are blowing in the breeze. I washed the old curtains that were in our bedroom and now they are drying.

I am thankful for...my new room. Rob painted our bedroom this week and we got all new curtains and bedding and I love it!!! And that Henny is feeling better. This time last week she was super sick.

From the kitchen... I hear Jase singing while he's playing play-doh with Alice.

I am wearing... my Redskins gear!

I am reading... nothing at the moment. I have temporally gotten out of my readying frenzy.

I am hoping... that the weather stays good this week for all the fun stuff Jase has coming up.

I am creating... a scrap book for Jase's soccer coach.

I am hearing... Jase's singing and football.

A few plans for the rest of the week...pizza party at the kids last practice of the season, brunch with Connie, field trip to the pumpkin patch, Rob's graduation, and Jase's last soccer game.

Family Photo Friday

Family of barn yard animals

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Lost in the middle of a corn maze at Bowle's Farm

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Little boy I saw at the Bowles Farm. He looked so cute in his cowboy hat walking through the pumpkin patch.

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Me and Rob supporting our son at his Upward Soccer game. It is so awesome watching him and his "soccermates" run up and down the field every Saturday morning.

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Watching Hissing Cockroaches eat their salad at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Family Photo Friday

This is a picture of the family sneaking up my parent's front walk-way on a mission to surprise my mom for her 60th birthday.

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Jase was helping me make a baby blanket for baby Tucker #4. He saw me with scissors and a ruler cutting fringes along the edge of the material and went and got his Stretch and Dusty (the tape measure and saw from Handy Manny) and worked along with me.

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Jase was the only boy for so long and is just so excited now to have Rudd living so close. They spent the day playing at Aunt Phyllis's during Lucy's baby shower. Jase said he wanted to take Rudd home with us so he could sleep at our house. After baby number 4 gets here, Lucy just make take him up on that offer!

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Today was parents vs. kids day at soccer practice. I had given the coach's daughter, Leah, my camera and told her to take as many pictures as she wanted. She captured this shot of me giving Jase a hard time during the middle of the game. Is tickling a foul in soccer?

Family Photo Friday

I have been digging up photos of my mom with various family members for a special book I am making for her birthday and I came across this one. Here is my mom holding Jase when he was under an hour old.

Simple Woman's Day

Outside my window... I see my filthy car with a large mass of bird turd right on the hood.

I am thankful for...this beautiful weather. It was perfect for Jase's party, and has cooled off so that working in the warehouse isn't a nightmare.

From the kitchen... I hear the Mindel's birds squawking up a storm.

I am wearing... gray jean capris, and a black top.

I am reading... "Along Came a Spider" by James Patterson. I've ready a lot of the Detective Cross novels already, but its been a while. So, I've started all over.

I am hoping... that I can find the present that I want to get Jase's friend, Haley. I found it on line, now I just hope the store actually has it.

I am creating... absolutely nothing at the moment. I have been creating so much stuff over the last couple weeks that I am enjoying this relaxation.

I am hearing... B telling me he's done his work. Good thing I'm almost done this post.

A few plans for the rest of the week...go to the fair, Haley's birthday party, church, then Lucy's baby shower. Busy Busy Busy!!!

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I know I have missed a couple Monday posts, but I promise I will try harder to keep up them. This picture was from Jase's first day of school. We enrolled him in a 2-day-a-week pre-k program. I am so proud of myself for not crying at all! Oh yeah, and him, for being such a big school boy!

Family Photo Friday

This was the perfect photo for today since this weekend we will be celebrating Jase's 4th birthday and the start of the 2010 NFL season with the big opening night Redskins v. Dallas game. A little flash back for my baby boy and a little team spirit for my boys on the field!