Wii Daddy!

Here's some pictures of our family Christmas Eve celebration that was a blast as usual! Good food + good friends(and family) = GREAT time!!

Love ya all - thanks for the gifts and more importantly - the memories!!

Here are also some pictures of Christmas morning. We obviously had a great day that is beyond words, and another "best Christmas ever" was had by all!!
Poor Socks was tuckered out and climbed into the forbidden white chair to snuggle with her new toy "squirrel".

Tomorrow Rob and the girls are headed to MA on the train. They plan on leaving here at 6:30am for the 8am train. They'll be there by 9:30!! I can't go (lots of tears shed over this one from more than just me!!) because its my weekend to work. They both have their digital cameras and told me they'd take lots of pictures. I know they'll have a blast with their grandparents, aunts, uncle and cousin! No worries there!! They plan on coming home Saturday night! I can't wait to hear the stories and see the pictures!

MERRY Wii

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my family, friends and bloggers!!

Found this video on another blog....

This is great!!

Blizzard of '08

Gingerbread house

Tiz's Christmas...ahem "Holiday" concert

Tiz had her Holiday concert tonight, she did a fabulous job!! Enjoy the videos!!!

Ice, Ice Baby...

My Beautiful Christmas Angels!

These pictures were taken tonight at the Ambulance Christmas party - Enjoy!!

WE'VE GOT POWER

Just rec'd a text message from Robyn that we have power!!! YIPEEE!!!

Now, its really pathedic to think that we only went 1 day without power and barely survived - we really need to do something about that. We really don't watch a lot of TV or have any video games, so why was it such a problem? Must of been not having a bathroom!!! LOL

Just some whining.....

I still don't feel good and don't (can't) fully trust the stomach. We've been without power for a day you can only play so many games, charades and crafts in the limited daylight. And its only been a day!!!! (course I'm only 1 out of 190,000 w/out power) I'm at work so Robbie has them the next 2 days, which they say we may not have power until Monday or Tuesday. Which means my freezer has gone to waste. I vacuum daily and already having withdrawals on that. Not to mention the laundry piling up. Again, its only been 1 day w/out the power so far! I can't sleep at night because I have to have a fan running to sooth me to sleep, Robbie's extra loud snoring didn't help any! Its cold. I can't get in the Christmas spirit to decorate, didn't get my shopping done because I was sick. Can't this weekend because I work all weekend. Explorer needs new ball joints or something a rather, which means over $500 worth of parts, the plus on that is Robbie can do it himself.

There, I feel a tad bit better whining and feeling sorry for myself!!!! Time to move forward!!!

Golden slippers

Elizabeth picked out a dress for the ambulance christmas party and for her "winter" choral concert (not allowed to say Christmas in school). It has gold in it and insisted she needed gold shoes. However when we went shopping, we couldn't find any. Thank goodness for internet, payless and UPS! I found some and they arrived, as a surprise, for her yesterday. She was thrilled!! However, the party was rescheduled from tonight until Sunday night do to the ice storm we are suppose to get. So you'll see pictures of the outfit all put together, including gold purse, then. Here's a slight preview - shoes only!

This week I had the stomach flu, I pray I'm the only one in the house that will get it. If not, hopefully they'll get it this weekend........cause I work all weekend! Oh, that was mean of me!! But the flu is going around the ER, and now the rest of the hospital. Watch out Auntie and Uncle Mark!!!

Finally some pictures

I finally found my card for my camera. How it got taken out and placed elsewhere is way beyond me!! Must of been gremlins! Anyways..........here's a few pictures from Thanksgiving


Turkey and turkey! LOL
Tiz set the table for us

Keeping the food warm

Here's some pictures of the snow flurries we are getting today, and also of the dog and cat enjoying the woodstove heat!

Finally....here's some of the items we got for a 15yr old girl. I grabbed her tag off my works "giving tree". She wants make up and jewelry. So Robyn and I went and grabbed some stuff at Rite Aid yesterday. I did this in lew of not getting my act in gear to do a shoe box. Procrasinator is my middle name, not Allyson as some think!

I love Christmas music

I absolutely LOVE Christmas music and my radio station in the car is set to the station that plays it 24/7 until Christmas.

So I had to change my playlist to Christmas songs, Jim Brickman is one of my many favorite artists. I had to throw in Amazing Grace on the bagpipes - just because its beautiful!

Enjoy!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Wishing everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING. Remember to count your blessings, no matter how big or small!

Here are a few of my thankful things:

• My wonderful husband, for providing me a wonderful life and 2 beautiful girls
• My 2 girls, for showing me what love really is - for the many laughs and even tears
• My mom - for being strong in so many ways
• My "seasoned" Sissy - for being there for me and my girls and being a great Auntie
• My health
• Having a house that will be warm this winter and not having to worry about feeding my family
• My great new job that I absolutely LOVE
• My friends, who are there to make me laugh, listen to my complaints and always have a hug when needed

Those are a few, I could go on ...... but time to put the turkey in. What are your thankful things??

BBBrrrrrrr

Dang!! The cold air has hit us with a vengeance!! We've had temperatures in the teens at night and this morning, heavy frost on the truck windshield!! The wood stove has been working hard keeping us toasty warm. Thank goodness!! I did finally have to break down and turn the heat on because I worked yesterday and couldn't keep the stove going. So when the girls got home it was 64 in here. Had to tell them to turn it up. A shock to the system since its usually 78 in here with the wood stove!! So that was the first time the heats been on - very nice, since its usually in October. The benefits of not working full time!!!!!!!

Weekend get-away............sorta

This weekend was our annual get-away. Its the Midcoast EMS seminar in Rockport that we attend, we take classes to get cec's required to keep our EMT licenses in force. We had a great time, as usual, the weather wasn't cooperative. This morning the fog cleared and rain stopped so we could finally see what the view was out of our room!! I bet its absolutely GORGEOUS in the summer!



Our friend Mandy and boyfriend Matt were WAY at the other end of the motel from us.....they must of been warned ahead of time about Mandy and I and knew it would be best to separate us!! LOL

So now, I'm cleaning out our suitcase, as well as the girls, and repacking a smaller suitcase for Robbie because he's headed this afternoon to RI to do repair work on the boat they built that is there. He'll probably be there until Thursday. He wasn't suppose to go until Tuesday. But people aren't doing what they are suppose too - so being management - off he goes! PLUS he's got an awful head cold and feels miserable. :-( Hopefully he'll get there fairly early tonight so he can get a good night sleep. The hotel where we stayed, the beds were like sleeping on the floor. Actually the floor might of been softer!!!

Happy Birthday Krissy!!!

I know its early, but I'm working today, Freshman supper tonight, pack everyone up tonight and tomorrow is the EMS Seminar at the Samoset for the weekend!!!! Wanted to make sure I wished you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Ohhh Krissy

WE FINALLY GOT A SIGN!!!!!!!!!!! Only took 2 yrs from when the other one was stolen!!!

THANK YOU!!!

No matter how you feel about politics and the war - today is Veteran's Day. Take time to pause and think how lucky we are to have our freedom. Thank a Vet and thank an active member of the armed services. Especially those who have lost their lives, fighting for OUR freedom.

My AWESOME trip.

Hey it Robyn reporting here from Boothbay telling you about my awesome trip. I went to Minnesota (if you didn't hear) for a conference called Healthy Kids/Healthy Community Convention. A group of us called the Core of Leaders raised money this past year and got lots of grants and a large donation from the old YMCA director of $620. (Didn't feel bad he has a Porche). Let me explain the Core of Leaders to you. It is a group that helps build the 40 developmental assets in our community. Let me just say if you have never heard of them then you must read this, http://www2.search-institute.org/assets/. So we hold a Youth Summit every year for all BRES and BRHS students to attend at our local YMCA that is "within a stone throw of the schools'' that basically reminds all youth of the 40 assets, that our schools try very hard to help build. We do fun fundraiser that no one would ever think of. Such as a Flamingo Flock, which is were you can pay a small fee to get a group of flamingos put on a friends lawn anonymously. We have raised $6,000 dollars off that at least. We have done a Guitar Hero tournament, Car Wash's, bake sales, and basically anything you could think of.

The conference was at the Hyatt hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The outside of the hotel. It looks small but it was everything that you can see the tall building, the little thing that says Hyatt, and everything else around it. It was 25 floors.

This was the speaker room were we had an opening ceremony everyday ceremony everyday with a variety of different speakers and performers.

My favorite class was a class that was called Tel-a-vision. (See if you can get what it means............................................................Tell A Vision, get it??? Well back on track. It is a website that allows you to make a video of your dream for America and anything else that you want to make a video on. Here is the website http://telavision.tv/ give it a try it is free, fun, and no downloads.

Here are some pictures of the confrence.

A very good speaker.

The lobby from one of the floors.

A bathroom were 4 girls stayed.(my room)

My hand on the hope wall.

A room where 4 girls stayed.

More of our room.:)

I LOVED these little people. They had different colors everywhere and I wanted to take one and take it as a carry on!

Lovely me on the 25 floor!

Ok. My most favorite part. So excited..... Drum roll please..........

THE MALL OF AMERICA.http://mallofamerica.com/. I had the best time there. I would sooooo go back if I had a chance. We went one day and didn't even get through half of it. And we didn't think that we would get to go back..... but one of the adults wanted to go back and offered to take me... so do you think I would say no? Well I didn't. I got to go to the mall 2 times. We got through most of it. It was so saweeeet. You just had to be there to see how amazing it was. There was 3 roller coasters in it. A log flume, a Dora the Explorer Ferris Wheel, and plenty more. We could have spent at least a day in just that part. I went into the QVC Store and they were airing one of the shows there. I have a picture of the on air sign that was LIGHT UP. It was amazing. There was an American Girl Store that was 3 floors, a zillion other stores that I have never heard of. Here are some pictures. And by the way it was AMAZING.

Our dear friend George Bush is behind me in this pic.

Ohh.... don't i miss the Rugrats.

George again!
QVC at the mall!! and the on air sign....

Well i am VERY tired so i am going to take a nap. I have more pics so maybe i will put a few more on later. TTYL;)