My little Kai Guy...

Jenny brought the boys over and they helped us decorate the UGLY fake Christmas tree we have. I do not like this tree at all, and plan on getting a new one SOON! Not for this season, but I will have a new one for next year. Anyway, it doesn't look bad when the sun goes down and you turn the lights on. Of course it does look better with the decorations that the boys helped me put on it.

Here are some of the pictures. Kai is so cute with the santa hat on. Jen has been working with him to leave it on. When he has it on she tells him "Merry Christmas" and then he pulls it off. That way she can get him to leave it on until she says that...and she sometimes takes a little while before she says it. You have to be sneaky with kids.

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The Polar Express trip

  

Aimee's Christmas gift

This is what I made for Aimee for Christmas. It is always hard to know what to get for a teenage girl. I hope she likes it. It is a scrapbook page put onto a 12X12 canvas, so she can hang it on her bedroom wall. It is the color of her room, and matches the blocks I made her last Christmas.

The background paper is one of THE DAISY BUCKETS own designs. I love their papers and am so happy for them to be able to expand their horizons.

I enjoyed making this for Aimee, & wish I could be there to watch her open it. Now I just have to get it shipped to Canada. I will be mailing it tomorrow. I know she won't get it before they leave for their Christmas trip, but it will hopefully be waiting for her when she gets back.

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Quintin on his Birthday

This is a picture that I took on Quintin's actual birthday...

Love you Mr Q!

The Birthday Boy, Quintin Reice Zumwalt

Happy first birthday to my boy Quin~

More pictures...

Here are some more pictures of my life adventures.

Happy Holidays everyone!

I am up bright and early this morning, as Mel just left for the Oregon Coast. Him and Dennis were going to go down last night, but a HUGE storm kind of changed their plans. The wind gusts in Lincoln City hit 91 MPH, and several roads were closed due to falling trees. We still aren't sure exactly which route they will be able to get through on today. They are supposed to keep me updated. I guess it is a good thing that we were required to put hurricane tie down on the house when we build it.

I have had a busy time since I posted last. I have been working on Christmas cards, gifts and just spending time with my family.

On December 8th I took Kaeden to Hood River and we rode the Polar Express train to the North Pole, picked up Santa Claus and returned to Hood River. Kaeden was very good and only asked Santa for one thing. He wants a Ben 10 watch. After the ride we went to White Salmon and stayed all night with my parents. Kaeden and Great Grandpa Curt colored in a "Cars" coloring book, and then GGpa measured Kaeden on the post in their basement. Kaeden wrote his own name on the mark, and did a good job of it. We woke up to snow the next morning. It was very pretty and peaceful looking. It really got me into the Christmas spirit. Our trip home was fine.

When we got home I got busy decorating 2 cakes for my little man Quin's first birthday party. His birthday was actually on the 13th, but since Jen, Steven and the boys were down, we went ahead and celebrated it Saturday. Mel and I went over for the party, and then I stayed and watched Aaron, Kaeden, Kailer and Quintin while the kids all went and played pool. They were home by 10:30.

I went over to see Quintin on his birthday and to take some pictures of the birthday boy. He had to go to the Dr on his birthday and has a sinus infection. He got excited when I walked in the door, so that made me feel good. He is not quite walking, but will be soon. He pushes toys around but just won't let go and take off walking at this time.

Well, I need to get ready for work, so I will close this message and leave you with some new pictures.

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I am on a roll now...

Ooops, I posted two of the same picture, and I don't know how to delete one, so here is the other picture that I meant to post, and also one of Jen, Steven and the boys from Halloween...

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Here really are the house pic's

Hmmm...Guess I ran out of room on the last post and not all of the pictures posted. Here are also some pictures of my little gremlins on Halloween, and the weekend before when I went to Jen and Steven's.

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Updated house pictures

Mel just got back from Lincoln City last night. He went down and pulled the forms off of the retaining wall. It was poured last week when we weren't there. There are some bad spots, but we will get them fixed one way or another. Mel and I are going back down there This Wednesday for Thanksgiving. It is the first Thanksgiving, since we met in 1976, that we aren't spending it with Mel's Mom. She will be in our thoughts this Thanksgiving day. I am attaching a picture of her from last Thanksgiving.

I am going to help Mel paint the great room in the basement when we are down there. I am not sure what all we will get done while there. Mel has bought the flooring for the kitchen now too, so we have that and the basement flooring purchased. I can't wait to start putting it down. Mel got all of the underlayment screwed down. Jared went down there a couple of weeks ago and helped Mel get it all laid down.

I had both of my eyelids operated on on November 10th. The Dr is trying to pull them down further. It is due to my Thyroid eye disease that they are affected. Here is a couple of pictures of what I looked like right after the surgery. I am looking much better today.

Mel and I went to the Tri-Cities today and ate at Red Lobster. It was Delicious!!! It was something that we haven't done in a long time. We are going to go out to a Thanksgiving buffet at The Flying Dutchman restaurant on the Oregon Coast on Thanksgiving day. It is going to be kind of strange going out to eat on Thanksgiving, but it will be nice to not have to cook and do dishes. Mel and I are going to hit the Factory Outlet Mall on Friday moring for the Black Friday sales. Not sure what kind of bargains we may find.

I scrapped yesterday from 12:30-Midnight at the Daisy Bucket. It was fun and I got a few pages done. I will post some of them here. Jenna Rosenberg stopped by on her way home to Othello and I gave her the scrapbook I made for her. I have been working on it for about 2 1/2 years off and on. She said she didn't want to look at it, or else she would cry. She really appreciated it. I am thankful for that.

Well, enough rambling. Here are some new pictures of the kids and things going on in our lives right now.

Til later...