Hello friends… so it’s been awhile. I feel guilty not updating this blog very often. I update two other blogs quite often! And this one gets ignored by me, I must be a snob.

Well, we are all doing fine. I managed to get really sick at the beginning of the month, but am back to my old self now. I am thankful for that. Being sick is not fun when you have a million things to do and people relying on you.

Also this month, Miss Jessie got her hair cut. She had long hair, and every morning we had such a joyful time brushing all of the tangles out (I called them rat’s nests and even named them) she’d get mad and say “Mom! I DO NOT have rats in my hair!!” and give me a disgusted look. And then she’d yell and cry if I’d even approach her with a brush of any kind. So, I relented and decided she could cut her hair. She was so kind and reassured me “my hair will grow back Mom, it’s okay”. She’s such a big girl. My gosh, she is a talker too. She can really carry on a good conversation and it’s been fun chatting.


Curren is doing great in school. He had his first school music program last week. He got to sing “butterfly” with all of the other 1st graders. He was quite funny when we were leaving the house to go to the school… he ran and hid in the bathroom stating “I’m too SHY! I don’t wanna go!” we talked him into it and he did just fine. I wonder why he always says he’s shy, he is so NOT shy, he’ll talk to anybody.

The weekend was pretty uneventful. Mark took the kids to the skatepark on Saturday morning. I had started clearing out our spare bedroom over a month ago. We had big plans to move Curren in there so he could have his own room. Well, I realized that we have a lot of “stuff” in that room. The room was the place you threw everything when company was coming, or when you didn’t know where else to put it, or you just couldn’t get rid of it quite yet. So needless to say… it was piled high with crap. I managed to sift through most of my quilting/fabric stuff and get that organized. That left piles of random objects. Which are now in our hallway. Curren has a room now! With a filing cabinet even, how lucky of him! Anyway, he was sooo happy when he came home Saturday and saw the room all cleaned out just for HIM. He even helped me organize his socks in his new dresser. What a kid.



Sunny the dog is doing great. Moving in with the Lott family has been an adjustment for her. We are loud, and busy, and crazy. At first she slept a lot, and peed in every corner… you know just to drive me crazy and make me think “why did we get a dog again, can somebody explain this to me???” She is now only peeing once a day in the corner vs. several times a day, so that’s improvement. She is also not biting as much when she plays (puppy teeth hurt) and she loves us. She follows us around, sits on command, and even fetches her toys. I am glad we got her (today), maybe not tomorrow, but right now I am glad :D


I am feeling sarcastic today, so for the undertone of this post, I couldn’t help it. Talk to you all again soon!

Sunny

So, we broke down and could not resist this at the store...

The pet store...

Welcome Sunny!





Isn't she a peach? Yes, she is. She's a month a half old Yellow Lab. Wish us luck keeping our shoes in one piece LOL! The hamster was freaked out by her. We brought Hammy down in her ball to run around and she immediatley smelled the dog. She wouldn't roll around she just sat there, and when she did get courage to roll around, she slowly would stick her feet out and move, it was soooo funny. The kids are so excited about having a dog.

In case you didn't get my email about Curren losing his first tooth last week, please click on the link below to watch, it's a really funny video!!!

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Visiting the Weaver's

We went up to Anacortes this weekend (it's North of Seattle, WA) to see our friends the Weaver family :D We had a lot of fun with them. We need to go and see them more often, weekends just seem to fly by and we never can get up there.

Mark has had a goatee (is that how you spell it???) for a few months now, and decided to shave it part way off, I kept staring at him and then laughing. He seriously looks like Wyatt Earp from the movie Tombstone. He just needs a cowboy hat hahaha! :D

We got to see the sights, in between the rain and cold wind...

I saw this bald eagle flying around and then it landed a ways off, so I made Charissa hike over to it with me. We got right under the dead tree he was sitting on, and he was looking down at us like "um... could you buzz off? I am busy hunting fish YO!" Or something like that :) He was pretty though, and big.

Here's Jessie and her pal Gordon.

Matt's dad was kind enough to take us on a boat ride, and we had a great time, thank you again!! :D

We made it back home tonight, and took down our huge-mongous Christmas tree, so our house is slowly getting back to normal. I have to work tomorrow, but Mark and the kids get the day off. Lucky Duckys.

Christmas :D

Christmas came to the Lott house and it was a great day! Santa really thought the kids were good this year :)

I think making all of these cookies for Santa made him pleased :D

Curren got a Nintendo DS, can you tell he's excited??

Jessie got lots of horse toys and baby stuff, she was very happy.

It even snowed! Well, it kinda snowed it melted as soon as it hit the ground, but it was fun for sure!

Oh Christmas Tree...

We got our big huge giant tree this year. Mark says it's 11 feet x 11 feet :) We got it last weekend at a Christmas tree farm by our house.

Mark got the lights out on the house earlier this week. It looks great! We have been trying to get everything together for Christmas now... and we still have a lot to go.

I managed to get some nice pictures of the kids this afternoon. They were not cooperating as much as I'd have liked, but I'll take what I can get :) The best one goes in the Christmas card, so I'm not showing it yet :D

Thanksgiving, a day late and a dollar short.

Thanksgiving week was a lot of fun, we were able to drive out to Utah to see our friends and family. I was so glad we were able to go. We left here on Sunday morning and drove the 12 hours to Orem Utah and stayed with Nate and Julie. We had fun. Mark went shooting with Nate, and we got to go see Park City. There was no snow to be seen when we were there (I see it’s snowed since). Mark and Nate wanted to go snowboarding, but that didn’t happen :)

The kids got to hold Julie's snake

I spent a day with Aunt Phyllis, we had such a fun time! We went out to lunch and met Kenny, Cami and River. We went shopping and got a lot of talking done. It was wonderful. I wish I lived close to her still, she is the best person.
We spent the last few days of the trip with Grandma and Grandpa Painter. We always have a great time with them. Grandma has a basement full of toys that Jessie loved playing with. We had a great dinner at Uncle Dave’s house. And we got to see Uncle Cliff and Aunt Bev. Jessie loved Uncle Cliff :) She still is talking about him.
We drove back home on Saturday morning. Mark had to leave on Tuesday for another business trip. I know this post is rather late, sorry about that. We have all been really sick this past week, and are just feeling normal again. We went to dinner with my coworkers on Sunday night, that was really nice. This Thursday is the church Relief Society Christmas dinner. I am looking forward to that, I am in charge of decorating for it. On Friday night we are going to a concert downtown. Collective Soul is headlining, with 4 other bands! I am pretty excited, and Mark is being forced to go, but he will have fun whether he likes it or not haha! I think he’s getting old *wink wink*

I’ll try to be good and post more :) Thanks for stopping by.

The Zooooooooo :)

The weekend was pretty quiet. Mark is out of town again, he's on his way home first thing tomorrow yay!!!

I took the kids to the zoo on Saturday so they struck some poses for me :)

This big ol' Grizzly was sniffing the air and then looked right at me like he was gonna EAT me, it creeped me out!

Cheese!!!!

Here is Jessie trying to make fish lips :D