You're gonna love this!

So Madison had homework the other day. There was a picture in each square, along with a short sentence that she had to fill in the blank on. I wish my scanner worked so you could see exactly what I'm talking about.

1. My cat sat. I like my cat.
2. See a rat?
3. My cat ran to see a rat.

Now this is where it gets great. The 4th square is empty. The instructions are for the kids to draw a picture to show how the story might end. So Madison gets going with her drawing. A few minutes later she shows me what she drew.

A cat.

With the tail & legs of the rat hanging out of it's mouth.

Yeas, I laughed. It was classic. I mean seriously, what did they think Kinder's were going to put...that they played?

Wooo Have we been busy!

So, the holidays are more or less behind us now and it was a busy and fun ride. I did feel quite behind on things, since I had a procedure done on my right foot in early December and it laid me up for much longer then anticipated. We still accomplished a lot of things. Tday dinner, followed by staying up all night outside of Target to start our Black Friday shopping, followed by dinner @ Mimi & Bob's. Said procedure on foot, Carol's birthday, going to Holiday in the Park @ 6 Flags, decorating inside & outside of house, finding an AWESOME place to get Christmas Tree's (they hang them [upright] from the rafters, so you can just give em a spin to see if its the tree for you!), hosting an ornament decorating & tea party for Madison & her friends, Volunteer time in Maddy's class, shopping for presents, another trip to 6 Flags, early Christmas dinner w/Mimi & Bob's, Christmas Eve visits with the inlaws, Christmas Eve wrapping (uuuuughhhhh), Christmas at my house, second dinner @ Mimi & Bobs, an unexpected visit with Shawna AND Joleen! and capping it off with a quiet NYE at the house. Yeah...and that's not the end of it.

Next up is Riley's 1st Birthday party. Will be posting that soon!

Finally, a lot of pictures from our busy month

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast Day


Holiday in the Park





Madison's Party




Christmas stuff







And finally....here are Shawna's, Joleen's & my children....I think this is an awesome picture...who'd have thought we'd have all these beautiful babies 10+ years ago!
Left - Right Nikoli(S),Ashley(J),Tyler(J),Logan(S),Riley,Madison,Shaelynd(S)