HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I want to take this time to send a blessing to all my friends and family. We have been blessed with good times, good health and lots of love. I want to send that all to you also. I know I have been scarce the last couple of weeks but you all have been in my thoughts and prayers.

Peace to you all and my you all have a Blessed and Prosperous New Year.

Merry Christmas

I wanted to put a little piece of my family out there to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas. ENJOY!!! Click on the link to see what you've been waiting for.

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GETTING IN THE SPIRIT

I still don't have a pic of my tree, maybe tomorrow....

Just wanted to let you in on a little bit (the exciting part) of my week. Elijah had his band/choral concert Mon. evening and Naomi had a field trip to the fire station Tue. The rest of the week was work. Both were AWESOME. I really enjoyed the music Mon. night, everyone did such a great job. We got there a hour and fifteen minutes early to get a good seat. It was worth every minute of it (plus, I am sticking with my arrive early motto). Elijah had improved so much this year, I love to watch him perform. You can tell he is really putting forth the effort.

The fire station was great because the guys acted like they were really happy to have us. They took their time and showed us EVERYTHING! They opened every door, every compartment, answered every question with a smile, and patience. The kids acted great, not perfect, but who would expect a group that young to be perfect??!! Naomi even had to tell one of the firemen about when the stove caught fire. Just when you let these things go to the back of your mind, you have kids that won't let it die.

It was a BEAUTIFUL day. The sun was shining, temps were in the low 70's, I was happy!
They even let EVERY kid have a turn at spraying the hose! Of course I didn't get a pic of every kid, but I did have to get one of mine. She got wild with it, spraying in circles. He didn't know who he was giving it to, did he?
No field trip would be complete without food. The girls hamming it up for me.
Making cookies with our friends. Since we rarely get to have friends over Naomi was a little excited. And we all know what happens when kids get excited, some one usually ends up getting hurt. In this case it was Naomi. She ran into the broiler pan as I was taking it to the bar, ouch! She is OK, just in pain for a few days. One day she'll learn.
Before the finishing touches. We had a great time, it so nice to have friends to share them with!

You need to over look the poor video camera action. Shut your eyes and listen to the music, open them every once in a while to get a look at Elijah. It was a beautiful, wonderful night.

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IS ANY ONE LOOKING TO DO A GOOD DEED?

While looking through www.craigslist.org this morning I saw some really interesting things. We had been ask at school to help with some families recently so I thought I would brows and see what these sites had to offer, if anything.

What I did come up with was a request from a woman with ailing parents who wants to make their Christmas special. All she was asking for was Christmas cards. So I thought it might be a good idea to spread the word a little farther. So, any of you who might want to add one more to the list I'm sure they would be thrilled. It's the little things that make a difference.

Donald and Betty Coleman
704 Seattle Dr.
Lexington, Ky. 40503

FLASHBACK

I guess you can tell I'm not quite in the Christmas spirit, yet. My plan was to get the tree up last weekend. With the sudden change of plans, I will try for this weekend! Having the tree up always gets me excited. I love looking at all our special ornaments and seeing the lights. Until then, I thought I would catch up on the resent past. Halloween! These were taken at out Church/School, they have a night for Trunk or Treat. We were there only for a short time, but it was fun and nice to see so many of our friends. The rock star and her buddy.
Elijah's best friend Dad, cousin and brother. They were funny!
Rock star and youth minister, aka Fred Flinstone.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM !!

AHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh... le lu ya! its your birthday! Happy Birthday MOM! Hope you have a great one! Love,

Kathy

DISGUSTING!!!!

I am beginning to wonder what's going on. Am I not living life right?! We had termites this spring and now, I found LICE in Naomi's hair this weekend!!!!!!

THIS has to be the most frustrating and disgusting thing. We spent hours and hours on her. First I started off with a super hot flat iron, it seemed to work great on the adults but once I started looking she had a lot of nits too. I tried the iron on those too, but some of them were too close to her scalp. I really didn't want to use the pesticide on her but after hours of picking and burning I felt like we really didn't have a choice. In total, I think we spent 7 hours yesterday and 4 hours today picking nits. It's not that she had that many, it's just when you thought you had them all, you found one more!

I will say a positive thing about private school here, I DID have a class list with all of the phone numbers on it. I chose to call everyone yesterday to give them a heads up and ask them to check their child. Most everyone was really nice and understanding. Not the call I wanted to give, I just want to take care of it as quickly as possible.

So, if you are like me and have never seen one of these babies, click on the pic for a more disgusting look at what we dealt with this weekend, yuck! She has no idea what is really going on. She just wants to be her silly self and have fun. This was no fun for any of us.
She doesn't look like she's been picked on for hours.
SAY A PRAYER THAT WE GOT THEM ALL, AND NO ONE ELSE GETS THEM EITHER.
Sorry for the gross downer today, I knew you all would want me to share.

THE CHALLENGES I FACE

This is it. Trying to get dinner ready after running around like a made woman, before a late night meeting. Elijah comes out with this look. It's the whole package, from the hat to the shoes. He suggests that I put this on our Christmas card. I told him I had my doubts but I could at least put it on the Internet. Oh, and I offered to make cards for his friends. Notice Naomi in the background. What do you think she is thinking?! And Levi, never to be out done comes with his look. He doesn't have ALL the accessories, but he does have the moves. He thought he wanted to wear boxers until I put them for him to wear "for real" then he says they need to be tighter. Live and learn, live and learn.
With dinner almost ready (I don't know how), Naomi comes with HER look. Thankfully she had a different idea with the same moves. How can three kids be so different but so much the same?
We had a nice dinner with a little pre-dinner entertainment, and I made it to my meeting on time! Oh, what a life I lead.