This little guy sat on our kitchen table during the holidays.. I got a few pics of him.. he is much cuter in photos. read on down for my first part of the decade..
D and I lived here.. our little duplex that I didn't really love but it worked.. I was actually afraid of the woods behind the place. I started selling Mary Kay in August of 2003 and here are pictures of my spread during a winter open house. 
The other view of the kitchen with my mom's boobs on the left hand side.. 
My neice after applying every sample of makeup in the place. She was going for the floozzzy look. 
Here I am at my SIL's house on New Years Eve.. they were probably telling the Y2K story again.. 
My little D on Christmas morning 2003.. look how short his hair is.. and the watch.. he wore that watch for years.. he lived night and day with his watch.. also see Baxter's butt on the right side.
This is what our livingroom looks like early Christmas morning.. and it only gets worse. I do go a little over on the stocking stuffers... I usually have thing lying on the floor next to them... G just rolls his eyes and then says.."you think you got enough"... OMG they are only kids once...
The Baxter Bean lounging...again.. that's all he does..all the time..I had cranberries in the frig so I threw some in a bowl
and covered them with raw sugar. 
I think D was going to kill me..
he took one bite then started to
spit and spatter..
I think he ALMOST threw up in the bathroom.
He then took a big drink of water and spit that out and headed downstairs
where I heard him say..
"Hey guys try these, they are REALLY goooood.!!!!"
That little shitbird.. the he laughed the whole way upstairs.
All the kids tried them and didn't care for them but atleast they tried.
The rest of the bowl is sitting on the table waiting to go to the birds..
Saturday night G came to bed and I asked him if he has seen Emma. 
The next fine morning I woke up and was trying to find the coffee for the girls when all of a sudden and 
Christmas candle collection in our living room to make those cold night just a little warmer.
As I was showing the girls my charms they wanted to make a bracelet so we scattered beads everywhere and made a few. 
Emma was so thrilled to get her piggy in..NOT.. then have a camera in her face with a really bright flash.. she was not a happy girl
Baxter + Laser Pointer = Baxter the red nosed kitty cat
after this picture he took off flying around the house in preparation for the Christmas Eve flight.
As D was in the living room signing Mr. E yelled "get in here, it's a family affair" 
They all have fun hanging at our house.. They play pool and Xbox in the basement.. They slide down the steps in a slick sleeping bag and they wrestle and watch movies upstairs.. 
Even though it's a lot of work and they eat us out of house and home I know where they are... They are not out driving around, drinking or getting into trouble. 
So for the price of chocolate chips, powered sugar and a jar of peanut butter we hosted a fun party and they all learned something. I don't think a couple had ever made Buckeyes and one had never tried Cheese ball so we had a good time. 
I even had them drink out of wine glasses during dinner and thought that was fun. Cousin D said "you want me to drink root beer out of a wine glass?" I said "sure, why not!!" 
We made about 10 dozen Buckeyes and chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles. 
While we were putting together our
St. Nicholas Square Christmas Village
Emma found herself a spot in the middle of the fluffy snow.
O' Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin... My new favorite.Probably 17 years ago I painted these carolers by hand.
I have painted ceramics since I was wee little in Blue Birds.
These two neighbors were having a light war.. 
This Santa was catching fish in the light pond.
This is a covered bridge at the town park. 
Most of my pics look like this. My mom the lead foot. 
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the camera and told him.. "take some pictures, you have about 1000 or so available" Very soon he got comfortable with my camera and starting shooting away. Here is our jouney...over the river and through the woods.
We stopped at the footprint rock but since it was like 26 degrees we decided that the adventure into the woods would have to wait til spring.
Farm land...as far as the eye could see.
Smoothie straws 
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