izzy getting into it! (there was a baby face on the side of the box & he was thoroughly excited!)

the chaz waiting ever so patiently. "how 'bout now?" "how 'bout now?" "now, mommy?"....lol.

this was at the american legion in washougal~they did a little christmas for the kids day there. cookie coloring, santa photos, ornament crafts. i left charlie unattended at the cookie decorating table to chase izzy...when i looked back, he had about a 1/4 inch of sprinkles on his whole cookie!!! (which was the largest cookie he could find to decorate! santa's sleigh!)

happy holidays~

merry christmas everyone. i've been thinking of what i would get you all should i have an endless piggy bank. that part is fabulous. but in reality, i wish that you just know how much we love & appreciate you. maybe next year you'll get some cool gifts from us!!
isaiah just dumped my wine. you think i would have learned the first time! ack...
last christmas, for white elephant, one of the gifts (at least i think it was white elephant...we got the legacy bag with the serving platter, & wasn't the other thing the wine glasses? maybe it was an after christmas find that i was planning to put in white elephant this year..) any ways. i had this wonderful glass, via good will or value village, a christmas tree wine glass. that i use throughout the year. well, a few months back, guess what? crack!! ...very sad day!
SO..then, i pull out my christmas bins & whalla! a brand new box of four christmas light red wine glasses!! COOL!!! that was maybe four weeks ago....can you guess how many glasses i have now? ONE!!!!! and isaiah is to blame for only one of them!!!
so...it is raining here..a ton. we came home safely after i white knuckled it home from a walmart trip. i had no idea it was that bad. i drove the saturn through a river i swear! it was terribly deep...& very freaky. i am so thankful the car still got us home! safely!! we drove through several areas with water over the roadway, but four or five spots were pretty freaky. uncle luke, you would've probably turned around to go through again!!! or tow some people out!! alright...big man is not patient right now...so guess i'll be back in a few....

hmm..sorry the text didn't stick with the pics they were posted with!!..guess i'm no good at that part!! things are good here..never a dull moment!!

'tis the season!

izzy it taken to his quilt for his "blankie" he's partial to this one to cuddle with & he's starting to drag it around a bit! of course, he chooses the bulkiest one around! it really is a nice one!

charles is over smiling for the camera! it has gotten pretty challenging to get a smiley pic of him!!

big z is turning out to be a bit mischievious!! he's into destruction of everything he can get to!

so darn cute :)

uncle luke & rebecca came friday after thanksgiving in eugene! thanks for visiting (& helping with christmas lights too!!)

luke doesn't pose well either!!

helping with christmas lights! these were originally to be given to grandpa barge since some of his candy canes burnt out last year!

we tried to do christmas pics....this was as good as we got!

superman or spiderman are usually not far away! sure is nice to have a superhero in the house :)

evil laugh

big z is always

got something in his mouth!!!
(his personal modality of raising my blood pressure)