New House

HELLO MESA!

After much prayer, struggling and worry we finally decided to short sale our house in Chandler and move to a safer location where we could get our finances in order. Such a hard thing to do, to walk away from a commitment, but we did it with a lot of peace and we are so grateful to be living in a wonderful rental home.  We asked around and found a great home in Mesa and we are in love with the area and in love with the home.  We feel so blessed that we have been able to have this fresh start with our family. Come and check out our new place, we have a guest room for visitors!!

Christmas Program

Why are little kids so cute when they do their Christmas programs, I could not stop laughing it was the best.  I think my favorite part of the production is the girl on the far left, she was hilarious.  Love my Gus and I'm so proud of all he's learning with Packer preschool.

Askited

Once Gus decides how a word is said there is no going back.  So here are a few things Gus is askited about!  We went to Bass Pro Shop and took a picture with Santa.  I told him to smile big and we ended up with this gem:

The other thing Gus is askited about is getting out of this sweater when it was 75 degrees in November.  Poor kid was perspiring profusely!

That's right!

I wore Birkenstocks with socks yesterday and I loved every minute of it. It was amazing! I'm bringing it back, don't try and stop me.  Join me, you know you miss it.

Tasty Lemonade

You know the saying, "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." When Leah passed away on October 29th that's all I could think about because she is the most beautiful example of this to me.  Right after she finished several rounds of chemotherapy she lost all of her hair.  We had a family Halloween party and we expected her to be feeling a little down about it, but we were pleasantly surprised. She made lemonade out of lemons, or better put the perfect Uncle Fester costume out of a bald head!  It's hard for me to express how much I'll miss her, but man that was some tasty lemonade!

The beautiful Caboodle

On a recent visit to Target, Gus was thrilled when he found the perfect item.  A purple glittered Caboodle, a most glorious treasure.  He whined and complained, stating he would like to spend all of his hard earned money on this box.  I told him, all of his change he has earned over the months would be mine, and he was cool with it.  We drove home and I told him, that I would have saved my money and bought something else later.  He decided after much pondering that the box should go back, but he did have me take pictures and every time he would walk by it he would tell whoever was in ear shot, "man, this great box is really beautiful huh?"  Such a funny kid.

A Halloween with cousins

We were able to do our trick-or-treating with cousins this Halloween because everyone was in town.  It was so much fun going to Aunt Debbie's neighborhood, they are close houses which makes for optimal candy gathering.  The kids came back with so much loot, it was out of control.  Gus decided to be an ocopus again, at the last minute.  It really is a cute costume, but he is so wiggly and excited to get trick-or-treating.  James, was of course a lumber jack with his amazing beard.  He has since shaved, and I am so sad about it.