Tuesday Treasure: Cat's First Christmas

Superstar.....

Vinny was Superstar of the month for December at school!

I 'Heart' Our Mailman...

Because he/she delivered Kelli's birth certificate today!

Wednesday is Funday!

Our kids took a ride in an ice cream truck Wednesday. Omar and Eli drove while Nick filled the ice cream orders!

Got Coal?

Dear Santa,

Please give the jerk who stole my husband's bank card coal this Christmas. He has everything else thanks to us.
Love,
The Nest

Dear Bank,
Please put all our money back before we have to ask Santa to give you coal too!
Love,
The Nest

Tuesday Treasure: Sal

Salvatore Thomas was born December 8, 2002. Weighing 7lbs and 11oz he was the smallest of the three boys! Now he is 6 and is the sweetest boy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He loves monkeys and soldiers, collecting hundreds of each. He is very close to Aunt Tyrene and is the only one who has had sleepovers at her house. He needed Legos for Nana and Tyrene to make his birthday complete. He asked us to go to Sea World for his birthday because he thinks he wants to be an animal doctor! Happy Birthday my everyday treasure.

Momma's Monkey is 6!

From the first day of school

Too being my little monkey

Happy 6th Birthday my Salvatore, we are so proud of you!

PSL Paraders

The boys sported their Christmas flair in support for Kelli's PSL parade! Nana and Pop-Pop came along with the Ward's to cheer Kelli on. She was excited to see Dawn's family and Melanie's family too during the parade.

Stuart Parade and Kelli Marie

Congratulations to Kelli and her baton teammates at their first parade of the season! Tyrene and Jason came up to see Kelli. Ty and I walked the Stuart Parade last night 1.2 miles with 110 baton beauties, while the guys watched! We took Kelli out to dinner to celebrate. Thanks to Jen and Brian for keeping the boys so Kelli could have her special night.

Native Americans and Vinny....

Vinny had 1 month to complete a report and project box on a Native American for the Native American Fair at his school. Vinny choose to learn more about Sitting Bull. His report was focused on Sitting Bull's Battle at Little Big Horn. Congratulations to all the 2nd graders who had their reports/projects at the Fair.

Nicholas and Friends

Our Wednesday fieldtrip took us to Chuck E Cheese again. We went with Eli and Omar. The kids had a great time playing games, riding cars and eating pizza! Nick loves to ride with Chuck E!

A new roller coaster ride caught Nick's eye, he invited Omar to try it out!

Omar had a great time out of the stroller!

Eli jumped from activity to activity to try to avoid the camera!

Tuesday Treasures: Sisters

Hey girl it's me I just called to tell you hi

Call me when you get this

Haven't talked lately so hard to find the time

Give the boys a big kiss

Tell them that I miss them

By the way I miss you too
I was thinking just today
About how we used to play
Barbie dolls and make-up
Tea parties dress up
I remember how we'd fight
Then make up and laugh all night
Wish we were kids again
My sister my friend

Oh yeah before I forget I met someone

I think I really like him

I was just wondering if I'm jumping the gun

Like going out on a limb

And invite him home for Christmas

To meet the family

Oh yeah before I forget I met someone
I think I really like him
I was just wondering if I'm jumping the gun
Like going out on a limb
And invite him home for Christmas
To meet the family

Seems like just yesterday
You brought home old what's his name
He had been drinking
What were you thinking
After dinner he passed out
We can laugh about it now
We've learned a lot since then
My sister my friend
Do you think you could come and see me sometime soon
We could just hang out like we used to
It's late and I should go
But I can't hang up the phone
Until I tell you
What I don't tell you enough
Even though at times it seemed
We were more like enemies
I'd do it all again
My sister my friend
My sister my friend

My Tuesday Treasure is to Tyrene, my sister, my friend.

Is That YOUR Tree?

Right out of the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation we have a tree. What, you might ask? Here is the setting....We tote all 4 kids to the tree lot to pick out our Christmas tree this year and after a short 10 minute talk about which tree is the biggest/ fullest/ shortest/ cheapest etc we find "the tree", we ask the tree man to trim the top slightly to fit our star and trim the bottom to fit in our stand. He is the most helpful tree elf and everything is great, he surely will find a tip in his stocking! Him and dopey elf tie the tree to the roof rack and off we go. Ed and I are laughing about how quick they were this year and wouldn't be funny if the tree fell of the roof. HaHaHa WHAT! We heard a huge whoosh..... and the kids screamed "I think the tree is in the road". What? we u-turn and there is our tree dead in the middle of the street. (Luckily the car that rode our bumper half way around Torino Pkwy turned.) We thought the tree falling off the roof was not funny after all! We picked him up and had to stow him in the car because we are on a dark road without any rope and had no idea how we were getting our tree home. The kids all had to smooch together and we shoved the tree into the van. Now this is a sight as well. I felt we were in a clowns car, 2 adults, 4 kids and a 6ft tree! We got home and stood up our poor injured tree in the stand and top it with the made to fit star. Oh with so many bare spots because after flying off the car at 30mph a few branches came off we had to wrap it in material garland and lights.
Hmmm, maybe next year I will leave a different type of 'tip' in the tree elves stocking....