Merry Christmas

Santa's cookie plates

Getting ready to leave cookies for Santa

Kate in her coupe

Daddy and his girls

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas with the girls. It was the first year Hannah really enjoyed it and understood Santa Clause. It was also our 1st Christmas at home with kids. It was so nice to be home, safe, and healthy. We opened presents and headed off to my parents' which was complete and total chaos, but I wouldn't want it any other way. It's loud, there's not enough snack food and there is dog hair everywhere considering there were 4 big labs there. We missed Kelsey and J.J. on Christmas morning, but Kelsey is now here for the rest of the week, so as John says, "The queen is in, so I'll see you when she leaves."

We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. We are so blessed and so thankful that 2007 has been such a wonderful year and hoping 2008 is even better!!

A Timeless Tradition

The final Project...A timeless tradition!

We made our 2nd annual Gingerbread house. It's all for Hannah and Kate, who wanted no part of making anything, just eating. Kate squealed a lot and pointed to the candy. When she couldn't have them, she would cry as if you took away her best friend (she tends to get emotional every once in awhile, like her cousing Mallory).

It wasn't looking too good until the resident baker (Julie) took over and wouldn't let anyone else, kids included, touch the house.

Our Precious gift from God... Kate Elizabeth Ross

A low fat glazed strawberry Pot Tart...

You know you have cleaning issues when you find an almost whole pop tart underneath your drivers seat and your first thought isn't "I can't believe my daughter was so messy and just threw the pop tart on the floor" but "Oh my God, I can't believe that she didn't eat this whole pop tart."

Maybe I should have given her a diet coke with it, that would have made it really yummy!!!

Days like today make me love being a mom!!!

It's days like today that I just love being a mom!!

Paige and Bill had Hannah ALL day.

Just kidding, but it was nice and relaxling and we got a lot done!!

The Fishy Thing?????

Attempt #2 at taking a Christmas picture. Way to go Ross Girls!!:)

Yes, this is what it looks like. Hannah has moved her entire solid wood BUNK bed to look for a fishy thing. WHAT? I have no idea what fishy thing she is talking about and we never found it. She came from her nap and told me she wanted a spoon to catch things under her bed. Okay I tell her because that is easier than asking her why she needs it and telling her no. So I come in a few minutes later and she is using the spoon to try and get under her bed. I take the spoon away. I come in 20 minutes later and she has her entire bed moved. Then she proceeds to tell me when I yell at her she just wants to walk over to me and put soap in my mouth!!! Gotta love her. We never found the fishy thing, but her bed is still out because I can't move it!

The joys of Christmas Pictures

Without saying the F word too many times outloud, we took the most beautiful Christmas pictures of our 2 lovely daughters...NOT!What a miserable experience. The one day we planned to go take pictures at the beach last week, yep, you guessed it, it was the day it rained. So fine. John and I can do this. We have control...or are we controlled. Seriously, why is it so hard. We got nothing, so if you see my kids butts on your Christmas cards, you'll know we just gave up!!!

Merry Christmas

When Judge Millian morphs with my life

So for those of you who know me, you will appreciate this story.

So, I love Judge Millian from the People's Court on Ch. 9 1pm. Love it, love it, it.

Here goes my story:
I am at Walmart returning something. I hear the worker talking to a customer who is trying to return something. I overhear something about "well can I get 1/2 of my money back and 1/2 on a gift card...da da da." and some other stuff. So he starts getting angry because they won't return his Alli (which by the way, my dad used it and lost 9 pounds in a week for those of you interested in it:)) Anyways, I hear him talking on the phone about how there's nothing they can do because walmart only will give out 50.o0 maximum return gift card.

In my head I am thinking, "How do I know this." I have never bought anything that expensive here, how do I know this? then it dawns on my the other day on Judge Millian, a man was giving away gift cards if you won at a hole in the wall casino and this guy won, but he couldn't pay out because he paid out in Walmart gift cards and they would only let him get a 50.00 one.

Kind of scary!!!