Well for those of you that don't live within a 15 min drive from my house you will have noticed that you have not received our Christmas card. So here it is for your viewing pleasure. Expect the real thing in 5 to 10 business days. Even if it is after Christmas. So sorry it's late!

Oprah is giving away a free holiday Cd. With artist like Faith Hill, Il Divo, Tony Bennett, Harry Conick Jr., and Josh Groban. However you only have 48 hours so hurry.
Just go to http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2 and start downloading. You can also download the cover art and give it as a gift to someone.

We took the kids to see Santa at the mall. In fine print under the pictures prices it says that "if you are taking your own pictures please limit them to two". So we snapped a few pictures. Alex was so excited to see him and then of course, true to nature, clammed up when he was face to face. He sat on Santa's lap with a cute grin and in a whisper barley audible asked for a blue car. Jayden loved Santa and reached up to play in his beard. he wasn't scared at all. So if you want free pictures of your kids and Santa you can go to the Boise Towne Square Mall and take two. Also Stillman's work gave him a Christmas bonus and we were able to buy this new sectional at a steal on craigslist. It is so comfortable. We rearranged the front rooms and now the green couches are in the living room and the sectional is in the front room. It looks good. you should come by and see it. Stillman has taken on a project that we have been planning to do for years and is turning our chase lounge into a regular chair so that it can fit better. I will post that project later.

I saw these stockings and had to get them for our boys. So now we all have BSU stockings. I still like my traditional stockings but I have to admit these look good on our wall.

My Grandma use to dress up as Santa Claus and we got to open a gift on Christmas Eve from "Santa's Helper". We continued the tradition when we moved to California. One year we were looking at pictures of us opening our presents and realized how ratty we looked. So that year we decided that on Christmas Eve we would open Pajamas. That way we looked cute on Christmas day. Stillman and I continued this on into our own little family.

5 things he Loves:
1. his family
2. The Church
3. BSU football
4. dancing
5. making people laugh

5 things on his To Do List:
1. Take the P.E. Exam
2. remodel our house
3. organise the office
4. get season tickets
5. Paint the living room

5 Foods he enjoys:
1.Baked Potatoes
2. Empanadas
3. Ribs
4. Mashed Potaoes
5. Steak and Potatoes

Five things you might not know about him
1. He can play Greensleeves on the Piano
2. He is a movie buff
3. He can dance
4. He listens to classical music when he studies
5. He hates to lose

5 Places he's lived:
1. Boise
2. Argentina
3. California
5. Nampa

5 Quirky things about him
1. He alphabatizes our Movies
2. He can remember everything that happens in a BSU game.
3. He does a million things as we are about to go out the door. He has gotten better at this. When we were first married he would clean the house as we were leaving.
4. He likes the sheets to be straight and tight. (I don't)
5. He likes holidays more than I do. Especially food holidays.
-I really do appreciate all of these things

5 people to tag
1. Deedra
2 Brigitte
3 Krista
4. LaVerne
5. anyone who wants to.

12/6/2008, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Claus n Paws
Santa Claus is coming to Zoo Boise!

Join all of your favorite animals on Saturday, December 6 for a fun-filled holiday gathering. Admission to the zoo is FREE for everyone.

Finish your holiday shopping with great Zootique discounts or Zoo Boise gift memberships. Enjoy musical entertainment throughout the day and watch some of the zoo's residents receive special holiday treats.

Oh, and don't forget to have your picture taken with Santa Claus!

I got to talk to Curtis today. I was reading blogs and my bingbong message popped up, and Curtis Said Hey... on I.M. He said to tell Stillman GO BRONCOS!! He said more than that of course but I had to pass that message along.

Well it was a pretty fun week for us. Stillman had the whole week off! It was nice to be able to spend all that time together. Our Thanksgiving weekends are traditionally the same. We have Dinner, then we watch the last home game of the season, and then we celebrate Stillman's Birthday. We had Thanksgiving at Michelle's families house this year It was sooooo yummy. We are still having cravings. We watched a couple of Christmas movies, The parade, and some football. Then we went over to Stillman's families house for games and an early Christmas present (Thanks LaVerne I have been wanting one), and to plan our early morning shopping spree. We woke up at four, bundled the kiddo's up and went to get some killer deals. it was pretty fun! It was a weekend of first for Jayden. His first Thanksgiving and his first football game. You can see the crowd rushing the field after the game. Don't worry Jayden was warmer than all of us. He cried for the first quarter. Slept through the 2nd and 3rd. And was awake and happy for the the 4th. when it was surprisingly warmer.

Another HBP trailer has been released. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/11/14/new-half-blood-prince-trailer Here is the link. I am sure you could also just google it. It looks good!!! and just think we could have been watching it this weekend, but nooooooo. stupid WB.

Happy Birthday Mom and Jordan. Hope you guys have a great day!!

We are watching channel seven news and we decide that we better get down there and vote before it gets too crowded. Michelle says "does my hair look OK" Stillman says "to go vote, yes it looks fine" So we head down to vote and while I am voting a bright light comes on and I hear the news channel seven gal start doing her broadcast. We turn around and sure enough we are on T.V. We then get lots of phone calls telling us that they can see us on t.v. We took full advantage and showed off our cute little boy. Our other cute little boy was sitting in the stroller. very tired.
update: we just got to watch the replay on 24 7 and Alex was on TV as well.
You can view the video at http://www.ktvb.com/video/index.html?nvid=299945

Well our halloween party went off without a hitch. The weather was perfect. We didn't even get the projected rain. We had a delicious dinner of Soup Salad and Weiner Wraps. We played Bobbing for Donuts, and had a pinata. It was great fun. We then took the kids Trick or Treating. Before halloween I had discussed with Alex safty rules for trick or treating. It was all in vain as he entered every house that had a cute puppy. It was hard to get him out of the houses as the hord of kids that were blocking the doors. At one house even the men got a little treat. I will leave that to your imagination. you would have thought we were trick or treating a hugh Heffners house. Jayden slept through his first Halloween, but woke up after every one left and was even happy enough to try on his costume to take a picture with his parents and check out his goodie bag. Good thing I reused Alex's old costume. We then went to Deedra's house and watched Wait Till Dark. It was great ending to a spooky night! Hope everyone had a safe Halloween!

So Twice in the last month I have had dreams of killer whales. The first time we were in some sort of river canyon. Something like the Grand Canyon. In a sort of rock cave. The river is very deep and there are three Orcas swimming in the river. Stillman is down very close and they keep tapping him with there noses. I keep telling him that he needs to not stand so close to them. They keep tapping him and I am stressing out that he is not listening to me because I know that Orcas play with their food first........ and then Jayden cries and I wake up.

The second dream our garage is a pool and we have an Orca as a pet. The Orca can talk to me. We can swim with it, but I don't let Alex swim with it. When we are in our van the orca pushes us around our garage-pool.......and then Jayden cries and I wake up.

So I looked up what it means to dream about orcas, Not that I put much, or any stock in that sort of stuff. Dream of Orcas and it means that you are going to have good luck, you are completely satisfied with your life, or you do not trust your protector. So I must be completely satisfied in not trusting my protector....nope doesn't sound right.....must be good luck!

Or maybe Alex found my Orca blanket and has been sleeping with it on the floor next to my bed.

Oh and I learned today that eating dark chocolate can help with breast cancer. So in honor of breast cancer awareness month eat some dark chocolate!

I have had a couple of people ask to have thier fall pictures taken. Or Winter pictures. So just give me a call and we can set up a time to go take them. Right now is a good time if you want pretty leaves. Remember I do family for free!!

We took the kids to Linder Farms on Saturday. Mostly just for an October type experience. We didn't actually do the corn maze, but the kids had fun doing the other stuff they have there. Alex loved the hay bale maze he ran through about five times. They had a Hayride that we rode out to the petting Zoo and to pick out a pumpkin out of a pumpkin patch that was just his size. Alex called everything that he didn't recognise a llama. "No that's a Camel." "No that's an Oxen."Yes, That is a llama." Alex was very excited to see a zebra and a camel in real life. His favorite thing was the cow ride train. we only ended up spending about $4.00. We also ran into some familiar faces. while we were sitting on the hayride Tamara found us! In the end Alex could not find a pumpkin that was small enough to be just his size so he settled on a gourd. He carries it everywhere, and is very concerned about the fate of his pumpkin come Halloween. I told him he does not have to carve his pumpkin, but that trust me gourds do not live forever. I tried saving a couple of gourds two years ago in an air tight bin. Not smart. I ended up having to throw everything in that bin away.