Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Catching a lizard and shooting pigeons

 I received a text message from Nate informing me one Saturday afternoon that he had caught a lizard in the house but not to worry.  He'd taken care of it. 
My first thought was...Hmmm...just a lizard.  Glad it wasn't a snake.  And...a lizard isn't that bad.  Little did I know Nate and Chris were playing with the poor thing for releasing in the front yard.

 Makes it seem unfair.  Such a tiny little lizard verus Goliath here.
 Considering he still has his tail I don't think he was too upset.  By the number of pictures Chris took I am told the lizard was quite unconsidered with what was going on.  Now if I'd been the only person home that thing would have bit me or something.

 Oh, I'm sorry.  Did you think I met real pigeons?  Just clay ones.  It'd been a while since the boys had been out shooting.  It's amazing how quickly the weekends fill up with activies.


Friday, December 30, 2011

What a cutie

 We had my brother and his family come visit for Christmas.  This is my nephew Jackson.  He was such a hoot.  Keep us crackin' up the whole time.





Christmas Day

With church at 9pm we didn't do our original Christmas morning breakfast of strawberry waffles.  That became our lunch.  Nate got up at midnight to get his stocking but the rest of us slept until time to get ready.

 Christmas Eve Jammies
 Typical Chris face.


 The gift of the season.
 My gift of the season.

 Lovin' his Sounders jersey.
The aftermath.


We open our gifts in stages.  Stage 1 is stockings.  You can open those whenever you want but don't wake the parents up.

Stage 2: Gifts from each other (aka Chris, Kaye, and Nathan)

Stage 3:  Santa gifts.  Yes Santa still comes to our house.

Stage 4:  Gifts from grandparents and other family members.

We take time between each stage to enjoy our gifts, clean up the mess, eat/get cleaned up, etc...
It makes Christmas last all day.  This is only our 2nd year doing it but we've really enjoyed it.



Saturday, December 24, 2011

Trip to Arkansas

 Hike at Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, AR













 Hot Springs National Park,  AR
 Nate stayed back w/Uncle Kyle to go to a card shop so Chris and I got to enjoy a hike w/out any interruptions.

 Ranger Kaye
 Bath House Row in Hot Springs, AR
 Little Rock Central High School.  The first integrated school.


 Arkansas State Capital.  It was really beautifully decorated for Christmas.






 River Market District.
Hanging out in Santa's chair.