23 days and couting.....................

since I have blogged!! YIKES!!!!!!!!! We have been so busy -- snow, no school, Christmas, snow, new years, snow and then RAIN!!!!

Here is a brief or not so brief look at the past 3 weeks.............

Our Annual Visit to the man in the red suit:)

CHRISTMAS EVE

Brendan.....He SO wanted this movie

Whitlee and her newest Littest Pet Shop Posse'

Brendan and the money box

Brendan and the money from the money box

Whitlee and her new tea set

Grandpa enjoying some tea:)

CHRISTMAS MORNING

Whitlee and her new Easy Bake Oven that Santa brought her

Brendan and his guitar

Brendan being COOL at Steven and Sharlene's Apartment

I don't know what she is doing

Matthew and hockey tickets

Whitlee and Daddy using her Easy Bake Oven

...Stir the mix

...Put it in the pan

...Tap tap tap

YUM!!!!!!

...In the oven it goes

Playing ROCKBAND at Steven and Sharlenes

Drummer Brendan

Rocking the guitar

Getting ready to play

Steven REALLY needs to come out of his shell!!!

Go Matthew Go

all business

Whitlee wanted to sing

Doing her best impression of a Robert Palmer Video

Steven and Sharlene

Check out Steven ----- I think he is having fun!!

Whitlee the drummer

Open house at the new Kent Ice arena

Larry and his daughter Larren

The real Larry

Whitlee's awesome new shoes

The REAL Michael

Dinner before the opening night hockey game in Kent

My "happy face"

Steven's little beer

Matthew and his Christmas present that FINALLY came in

the dude with honey

my dinner

Steven and his bib

Brendan

Matthew Steven

Whitlee, her bib and some ribs

our group

our group from the other end

fire on ice

cool bird, Brendan and Matthew

Chuck A Puck

Nice Terri:)

Play from our great seats

There you have it!!!!!!! Short sweet and to the point!!!! I'll be back later!!!!!!

Did someone say SNOW????

We have lots and lots of it:) The kids are SO SO happy --- Brendan is especially happy because it gave him an extra 2 days of Winter Break ---

Check later there will be pictures to follow:)

525,600 minutes, 356 days, 52 weeks, 12 months...........

1 year............

It's been one year since Rick died. As with all my siblings I think of him daily. I think of what he has missed this year. I think of what he will miss in the year to come -- and it is going to be a HUGE year!!!! He has 3 of the MOST AMAZING KIDS!!!

I miss him.......plain and simply put I miss him!!!

Busy....Busy.....Busy....

That's what we have been -- but, that is par for the course this time of year. On Saturday we went with Steven, Sharlene and Matthew to hack down the annual tree-sicle:)

Here are some shots that I grabbed ----

Whitlee Jane is NOT happy - why?? She was told NOT to jump in all the mud puddles.

Matthew and Brendan playing tree or seek
Dude -- I can STILL SEE YOU!!

I can see you also!!!!

Still mad about the mud puddles!!!!

Look.........they are so sweet --- right before this Brendan tried to push Whitlee INTO a mud puddle!!!! Gotta love them:)

Cousins..............ahhhhhh!!!!!

I was able to do a mini photo shoot with Matthew - I love to photograph him just as much as taking shots of my own kids. When I was proofing these shots they just made my heart stop!! I love this kid:)

We have picked a tree.......

Jeff and Brendan thought this was funny!!!

The "Brendan is FREEZING" pose

Whitlee Jane "drinking" raindrops off the trees

Whitlee Jane singing the "I'm looking for a worm" song

Son, what are you doing with that saw????

Jeff - he decided was a Tree monster --- I still don't know what a tree monster is!!!

The Yamashita Family and their TINY TINY tree

Sharlene and Steven

Whitlee Jane "feeding" Uncle Steven a worm......Yummy!!

I'm outta here --- off to finish my 20 DOZEN sugar cookies!!!!