Recent Fun

I went out shopping on black friday (yes I was at kohls at 4 am) (and stood in line at toys'r'us) and one of things I got was new throw blankets, which came wrapped in what Katie thought resembled the masks the doctors at the "pospital" were wearing when she went in for her stitches. So, she wanted to wear it too, and operate on Steve and I (over and over again!)
Here's Dr. K in action:

Dr or Bank robber? I'm hoping Dr.

Having the appropriate surgical instruments is key...

Katie loves when I hold out the camera and take pictures of us. She always tries to mess with my hair right before the flash goes off.

I may live in the middle of nowhere, but I really do love the view. Here's a storm rolling in from my backyard.

Decorating the tree

Last night, after what we will not refer to as "the crayons in the dryer" incident of 2008-we finished decorating the christmas tree. [FYI- 4 crayons in Katie's pocket=completed ruined load of laundry which happened to include all of Katie's winter coats.]


YUM!! Dada's vegetable soup for dinner-I had to include this pick b/c man her mouth is huge!! She ate 2 bowls of soup!
Santa came by on the fire engine! Katie was thrilled!

Here's the girl in front of the tree ready to go out to see Santa. She hung a total of three ornaments and then lost interest, along with her dada.

The finished Tree!

Tree Time

This past weekend we went to cut down our christmas tree. Katie searched and searched and found the perfect tree. We had a lot of fun on the farm.

Snowman Katie..what a cutie!

Funny faces from dada and Katie

Cracking up running through the trees

We found the perfect one! Get to chopping dada!

Katie's boo boo

Katie had her first real trip to the ER two weeks ago. It was horrible for her and even worse for me. She was climbing a stool and fell down, bitting a huge chunk out of her lip. She needed three stitches in her lip, and she was such a brave little girl at the "pospital" as she calls it. She told the doctors that she didn't want them to tie a bow on her face. Anyway, just for the record, here are some shots that show of the injury, and also her stinking cute stink eye poses.

Mischevious stink eye version...

Singing...as you can see she had a nasty bruise on her chin too.

super serious stink eye mode.

Thanksgiving!

We had the family over to our house again this year for thanksgiving and a good time was had by all. Poor Tate wasn't feeling that well, and went to lie down right when we sat down to eat dinner. But before that, even with a fever, she was being a her goofy self. Here are some pics from the day...

Katie with Ganny and Aunt Melissa
Everyone sitting down getting ready to chow down-the food was delicious!!

Frankie in Katie's little purple chair

Katie so happy right before a walk with Aunt Melissa!