New Christmas Jammies

The Sutorus House

James emailed me their trees. I will need to get Mandy's.

I love Christmas!!! I always have. I loved helping Mom & Dad decorate the house and dragging out old memories. I would help Dad with the tree lights and re-arrange the Nativity scene all season. I try and carry-on the memories with my kids. These are some of my favorite Christmas "things" in my house.

The first picture is our new ornament St. Nick brought this year - he must have known we were in Jackson Hole this summer.
The second picture is not very good but it is a cross stitch I did the year I was pregnant with Sadie.
Third is my box of Christmas Cards. The last card I got was from Kelley Moyer - those are her 2 kiddos. I love getting the cards, And people w/out kids should send pictures too - any event that happened during the year.
Fourth is the kids tree.
Fifth is the living room tree.

We have 2 trees b/c when we had an apartment we only had room for a skinny one. The kids decorate that one all by themselves, lights and all. It sits in the family room and on that tree is all of the homemade ornaments and the St. Nick ornaments the kids get in their stockings every year. The other tree is in the living room.

Better late than never...

You will be receiving your Christmas gifts late - but at least I sent them. What is it? A CD of pictures and videos from Katy & Kent's wedding. I need the newlywed's address. And Chris' too. Someone please email me.

I got into a bad accident on Monday. I was rear-ended on the freeway by a 17 year old kid who doesn't have a license. Nice, I know. I had to slam on my brakes b/c 2 cars ahead of me someone got a flat tire. The car ahead of me stopped, I stopped, the kid did not. I'm not seriously hurt but my neck was killing me the first 2 days. I had my boss and co-worker in the car with me, they are sore but okay too. My car is at the auto body shop, I will find out how much damage tomorrow. Luckily I drive a gas guzzling, smog polluting SUV b/c the ass of my car is jacked. Had I been driving something smaller it would have been worse. I am grateful none of the kids were with me.

Cussin' & Shoutin'

There was a lot of cussin' and shoutin' at our house. I mean come on, we had 5 turnovers and the loss of Seau, which will hurt. But as ugly as it was we pulled it out. We invited Brad over to watch the game but he chickened out. So Brad, this is how Brady looked when he slipped past Urlacker and ran for the first down - in case you missed it.

Turkey Day

Terry, Charlie and I spent Thanksgiving at Mom & Dad's house. The girls went up North to see their other grandparents and Max and the twins spent the weekend with their Mom. It is kind of boring for Terry and I when that happens but that is the way it is. Mom made a great meal (I got away with just desserts). Marissa helped her get everything together and served us all. Mandy and Vivian were there too. Michelle's family hosted James' family. Here are some pictures. I hope you all had a nice weekend too.

Afghans

Mom has made a ot of afghans - all the kids have at least one. Sadie still drags hers around everywhere, it is called her "smell blanket". Friday nights we usually watch movies with the kids after dinner and chill out after our busy week. The kids all drag out their blankets and lay all over the floor.

Oh yeah - Mom's Famous

If you have flashplayer you can play a video clip of mom regarding her teaching style. It's loaded on the local college website.


http://coe.csusb.edu/hillside/class_clips.html

Boo Bears

I can't believe Sadie Lou is 8! Happy Birthday Sadie! Time has gone by too fast and my little girl is getting so big. It seems just days ago I took her to get her first birthday picture taken, now she is - Sadie. Sadie can drive me crazy. Sometimes she is way too honest, like when she tells me my stomach still looks like I am pregnant or she doesn't like my new hair color. There are other times when she looks me dead in the face and I swear she thinks we're equals. But there are other times when she melts my heart. She will write me little notes and leave them on my pillow. She is always quick with a hug and a snuggle on the couch. I know I have many adventures with her to come.

November 4, 2006

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad!

Happy Birthday Aunt Nettie!

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Happy Halloween

We LOVE Halloween. It probably starts from Mom & Dad. They always made a big deal out of the holidays. They let us dress up every year and be whatever we wanted. Dad would take us to the haunted houses & mom would fry up pumpkin seeds. As we got older we would take part in decorating the house and scaring little kids. I think it has been 6 years since Riss & Brad got to join in – they wanted a party! Terry, the kids and I hosted this year. These are some of our scary and not so scary guests.

Our Volleyball Season

Well we ended up loosing our last game. The team we played on Saturday was good in the fact that they returned everything - but we didn't play our best game either. I would have felt better about the loss if we had played our best, but that is how it goes sometimes. We ended up in third place though so we made the playoffs - Yipee! I have really enjoyed coaching, I have 12 really great girls. I look forward to coaching again next year.

I'm going to keep complaining...

about stuff that's not fair. This beautiful woman supported her family while her husband was unemployed. Since he feels inferior financially he has to make up for it by being a liar and a cheater. I hope he feels like a man now. And I hope she is schtuping her dance partner.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Country singer Sara Evans alleges in divorce papers that her husband committed adultery, was verbally and emotionally abusive, drank excessively and frequently watched pornography in their home.
Evans, 35, filed for divorce Thursday from Craig Schelske and announced through a spokesman that she was quitting ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" "to give her family full attention at this difficult time."
The couple married in 1993 and have three children ages 7, 3 and 2.
Schelske, 43 and currently unemployed, ran for Congress as a Republican from Oregon's 5th District in 2002. He is a native of Salem, Oregon.
He could not be reached for comment because there was no answer at a phone number for him Oregon.
In the filing in state court in suburban Franklin, where the couple has a home, Evans alleges that Schelske watched pornography on the couples' computers and has at least 100 nude photographs of himself in a state of arousal.
She also alleges that several photographs show Schelske having sex with other women.
According to the court documents, the oldest of the couple's children confronted Schelske when he was watching pornographic material on the television in their home.
Evans further alleges that Schelske frequently threatened her and "told her that she is crazy," threatened to take the children to Oregon and "continually interferes with (Evans') possession of and parenting time" with their children.
Evans requests child custody, possession of Franklin home and child support.
Evans was among 11 celebrities who paired with professional dancers to compete on the third season of the popular ABC reality series.
"Ms. Evans hopes that her fans and TV viewers who've supported her in recent weeks and throughout her music career will respect and understand her need for privacy in the face of these recent events," Allen Brown, her representative at Sony BMG Music Entertainment, said in a statement Thursday.
The Missouri native was recently nominated for female vocalist of the year honors by the Country Music Association. She made her recording debut in 1997 and her 2000 album "Born to Fly" went double-platinum. Her hits include "Perfect," "Suds in the Bucket," and "Real Fine Place to Start."

Are you ready for some football...

Happy Anniversary to us!!

3 Great Years!

Another Day at the Office

There have been more than a few times that Terry will tell me that he has a conference to go to or a vendor is taking him out and it turns out that he spent the day drinking beer in the skybox at the Angels game. So, yesterday I was only slightly taken aback when his "Intel" conference turned into him racing BMW's at the California Speedway. While I am working away at a place that strongly resembles an episode filmed at Dunder Miffline Terry calls to tell me that he needs $95k because he just drove this M6 coupe. Not fair.

Happy Anniversary Michelle & James

Disneyland - year?