Santa letters

Ok, I am stealing an idea from Holly...here are the boys letters to Santa....and yes, they will be VERY happy on Christmas morning! So sorry that I can't figure out how to flip them.....I am simply not very computer savvy....so bend your head to the right!

Ok, I am going to try tagging.....

I have been tagged before but never done anything about it...so here it goes....

Go into your photo file folder.
Choose the 4th photo file within that folder.
And from that 4th file, choose your 4th photo.
Then share the photo and the memory that goes along with it.
Tag 4 more people.




this picture was taken in our backyard in Albuquerque on Easter morning. The boys were having a great time hunting for eggs....

so now I am going to tag Susan, Heidi, Becky and well that is it....

Getting ready for the holidays...

Well I think we are 100% ready for the holidays. I have finished all my shopping (knock on wood) and nearly all my wrapping!!! We have decided to have an Italian Christmas and I am really looking forward to the feast. We bought a beautiful tree last weekend and had a nice time decorating it all together. The kids also decorated a gingerbread house. I have caught Ben eating the candies off of the house several times so hopefully the house will still be standing in a few more days! The kids wrote letters to Santa and I sent them into our local paper. They were published last weekend, we all got quite a kick out of reading their letters in the Sunday paper.

Matthew in December

Matthew is nearly a year old now, WOW! He is such a cute baby, I really can hardly believe it. Here is a picture of him with Santa and another adorable shot of him. He is still crawling and cruising but isn't interested in standing alone or trying to walk, whew!!!

My soldiers

We went to Charlotte a few weeks ago to attend Paul's unit's holiday lunch. We had a great time seeing where Paul works and meeting some of his coworkers. Of course the boys went in their Army uniforms. There were a few other kids with uniforms as well, of course none as decked out as Joey and Ben. The soldiers got a kick out of seeing them and they loved being with Dad!