Christmas at last! Hope everyone was Jolly for awhile at least :)! Missed granny's gumbo, sad, miss my family, very sad. Will be coming home most definitely in March. March 14th i believe is Jada's spring break. So christmas morning Jada opened a present she long suspected to be a pillow and voila it was Monkey Jammies...she hates monkeys but loves the jammies, finally we can rid ourselves of the jammies Jada refuses to let me sneak away that she has owned since she was 3. the pants are nearly to her knees now! So our toyless Christmas went over well, even santa complied with the exception of a Barbie doll and a Toy from the grandparents. Jada is the proud new owner of the nintendo DS which she loves, from mimi and other paw paw. Plenty of clothes thanks to granny and lots of books including an encyclopedia of Presidents (her newest interest to which i find i am grossly uninformed and can use the book to help me teach her) and a Shel Silverstein poem book (which i have already had to read half of cos she loves the silly stories as i did when i was little). So our christmas day as you all know led to Christmas sledding and followed by a night of family games and hot cocoa till everyone about fell asleep. it was fun and here are some pictures of the sledding, i included one of my favorites of mike's brother whose hat made him look like that bully on "A Christmas Story" Will somebody pleas send me back pics of Christmas at home??????

God bless Jada, she always lets me play photo shoot with her, here are some nicely natural lit close ups i was practicing on her when i thought the light looked perfect, i think i was right. no touch ups on thses pics at all just the way i shot them with border added. The top pic is her showing off some newpolar bear christmas socks and sweater.

Just looking through pictures last year when i was back home...thought these were funny.

Christmas Ballet recital

Jada's Christmas Recital was a couple days ago. What a fiasco too! The whole night almost a big disaster for mike and I. Anyway we made it through and here are the pictures and video. the video is blurry because the camera couldn't focus (because they start the dance in the dark.) Sorry. Jada is all the way on the left, i tried to keep her in the middle. The first video is at practice the next is the show. There is another video of Jada laughing alot, she was so tired and giggly after her ballet show.

Pretty soon we will be heading up to the mountains to play in the snow. It will be interesting with the dog, cross our fingers we don't cross the paths of any bunnies and have her run off. Jada has big plans for the snow including a snowman, snow fort and a big snowball fight. She says she wants me and her and cici on one side and daddy on the other.

Poor Jada says she wants another cat for Christmas too. I keep telling her if we got a cat the dog would eat it. She also says she still cant decide what to ask for from Santa so I assured her I already wrote a letter requesting her stocking be filled with green beans and broccoli.