The guilt has set in....

I have gotten a lot of slack for not updating my blog since April. This one is going to be short. We just had a great Christmas with the family. Jeni and the kids were able to come early and Mike and mom followed along on the 22nd. We had a great visit and things were BUSY BUSY BUSY! I will go back and fill in the last 8 months-- you know Aubrey's 1st birthday, vacations, summer and oh yeah gabriella started school!
But for now you get Christmas highlights!
1. Cookies-- many cookies
2. Notes to and from Santa - making sure to tell gabriella that it is okay to listen to her mom and dad and what a great big sister she is
3. Christmas Survivor/Amazing race-- jason's mom created a day of Fun - Dang boys won
4. Grandmas rolls, corn, green beans, shrimp and yes more cookies-- snickerdoodles
5. Aubrey not sleeping- Jeni has a picture of her up at 11pm on Christmas eve
6. favorite gifts- connect 4, Leapster, baby dolls and all that goes with them, guitar-- and yes the "girls just wanna have fun" song will get stuck in your head

Overall it was fantastic. Going into the new year I will not bore you with my plans to blog weekly or update monthly-- Let's not set ourselves up for failure.
Here is what you need to know

We are happy
We are crazy
We are silly
We are loving
We are safe
We are well fed
We are warm
We are healthy
We are blessed!

Things are going pretty good. Shannon just got back from Las Vegas for Arbonne and daddy was busy. Aubrey is 8 months old and going to be crawling soon. I just had Gabriella's school forms filled out at the doctor--can you believe it!! Jason is staying busy and so am I. We are looking forward to the summer and playing outside, getting our garden started and the pool of course.

Here are the latest pictures--the ones of us all dressed up are at Easter and the others are tonight 4/23/09. Hope all is well. Love Shannon

Feb 2009

Well it is almost March.... Things are good. Jason is keeping busy, Aubrey is still sleeping through the night-- praise the Lord and everyone is healthy and happy. We are planning Gabriella's 5th birthday party. High School Musical will be the theme--OF COURSE!!!

We love Troy and Gabriella! I joined jazzercise and am working on my weight loss goals--speaking of weight loss..... i duplicated Grandmas rolls and they were pretty darn close if I do say so, but you can judge for yourself.