Happy New Year!

This is what New Year's Eve Day looks like at our house this year...  Jim and Sabrina hung out with us for most of the morning (Jim put the new toilet seat on and did a deep clean in the bathroom - he should come home more often!  LOL)  Sabrina and I did a mini-marathon or HoeDown Showdown.  She doubled her usuals and did FOUR sets.  I did a set of 10.  And am wearing my "I did it" HoeDown Showdown t-shirt I earned at Safety Harbor last year to celebrate.  

Rod went out and mowed the little pasture and now I think he's out mowing the front yard/pasture.

Pretty good pictures - taken with my iPad Touch.....  Not bad!

I'm researching alkalinity in the body.  

The fun just never ends around here!  I'm off to WalMart (with the rest of the hordes) to pick up the things I forgot last night so we can stay in and have some fun stuff to nibble on while watching some of the dvds Santa brought us.  Jim and Sabrina are going to a big party... Kyle might head over there too.  So it will probably just be us old people here...  LOL  That's ok, more fun stuff to munch on!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

My Little Patient

Tuesday morning I took Rod to the doctor to get a couple of skin cancers on his arm taken off.  Usually I stay out in the waiting room (cuz I'm a pansy, that's why!) but this time I got brave and came in.  (I brought my Kindle and my new iPod Touch just in case...) 

My brave boy did well.  Our doctor (he's a Nurse Practitioner) is such a great guy.  VERY personable and encouraging.  We've seen him now for about three years and have been very pleased.  He has taken several skin cancers and fatty tumors off Rod over the years and really cares about limiting the scarring etc. 

Anyhow - some before and afters.....  (no blood!)

Yes, after surgery I took my darling to Steak and Shake (and then to the mall to get a replacement part for his RC helicopter...) 

All pictures taken using my NEW iPOD TOUCH.  Thanks again Mom and Dad! 

There will be MORE blog posts in 2012 since I now have a way to take pictures and upload them right to my computer WAY easier than with my camera!  Woot!

Nearly Ready

We are nearly ready for Christmas!  Mostly we are just waiting for our elves to get here...

Tonight they are in Cincinnati, waiting to pick up a USPS load to bring south to Florida.  (several stops along the way...  you know, Santa never just comes straight somewhere... gotta stop and make lots of drops...)

Here's our tree!

Can't wait for our guys to get home!

Cookies!

It's so fun having a girl in the house!  The boys were never really into baking cookies and all the other little Christmas things....

When I got home from work today - this is what I found in the kitchen...

She was busy making sugar cookies and cutting them in cute Christmas shapes.

Then they decorated them!  (Kyle helped for a little with that one...  well, he decorated, and then he ate... LOL)

Aren't they cute???  

Evidence!  Flour!  She was working hard!

Oh, and here's the status of the Advent Calendar.......

Oh!  And we got a great little box full of Christmas presents today!  They are under the tree!

Thanks!!!  

(Sabrina was BEYOND excited to see one for her!!!  We have the BEST family!)