Merry Christmas!

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When we were growing up, I remember taking a picture w/ eveyrthing that we got that year for Christmas so we could remember what we got. So here is C's picture for this year.

And here is K's picture.

C's "last to open " present--what he really wanted. Lego Indiana Jones for the Wii.

K's new dollhouse. And boy does she like it.

K's tutu. Isn't she cute?

Not sure what this was but I like how Daddy took the picture.

My mom got K a purple purse filled with goodies. I think it was one of her favorite presents. It had tissues, a purple comb, a nail file, a little toy doggie, and a key. She thought she was hot stuff!

This is C taking a picture of---something.

K got this for Daddy at the Cubbies store. It's a screwdriver on both ends. Very small and magnetic. Daddy used it at least twice already today!

C got me some nice new socks and very soft blue gloves. They are so soft!

We bought these for C at the Lego store in Disney. He also got a set from Grandma that are Indy Jones.

K wanted a Barbie doll. And this is Belle! What I like is that it is made more for her age. The shoes don't come off and neither do the clothes. The tutu does. No little parts for her to loose.

K was very love-y today. I'll take it when I can. She's usually not like that.

Daddy and I both got each other this game. Scrabble Slam. He and I actually played it tonight after the kids went to bed. It's really fun. He's really good at it.

Look at all those presents! Since we didn't go anywhere, all presents from everyone got sent to us. We had a lot. It took us quite awhile to open them all.

Here's Mugsy. He wanted to be in on all the fun, but he kept getting in the way. Poor guy. After we ate dinner tonight, he kept begging for turkey scraps. He got one little one. His Christmas present.

Merry Christmas to all! I hope everyone had a wonderful day. We are spending this Christmas here at home as our family of 4. Our only house guests are one dog (Mugsy) and 2 turtles (never heard of turtle sitting?)

PS: Blogger rearranged all my pictures and words. And it's too late for me to care.

Riding the horses--and maybe the dogs?!

Saturday morning while we were in P'cola, we went to my brother's house for breakfast. I actually made sausage gravy and my mom made chocolate gravy. YUM! After we ate, we got a tour of the house. And here is what we found in one of the bedrooms.

Later we opened presents and went outside to see the horse. Each of the kids got to ride for a few minutes. They both loved it! K giggled the entire time she was up there. They both loved the dogs once the dogs calmed down. When we first got there, the dogs were out back. Duke got so excited that he jumped the fence and was in the front yard. He had to be chased down and shoved in the car. So then they went in the garage. Somehow he managed to open that door! So after they were put back out there, the dead bolt was locked. If he can get through that, he might make some money as a Houdini dog.

Here is Duke and Riley. I think they are pretty dogs. But big.

New computer

Daddy's business computer is still not working. Right now it is in the "shop" to be dissected and hopefully fixed. We aren't even sure we can get everything off of it--the biggest thing is his iTunes library. Through all of this we decided that his computer will no longer be used for the Internet and he wanted to get his music off of it too. It will go back to being just a business computer (www.pictureperfectvideo.net)

So he had mentioned buying an external hard-drive for our pictures and his music. We would hook it up to our old laptop. We had talked about next tax return season buying a new laptop anyway--so we went ahead and bought a new one now. Since we got 6 months same as cash-it's like waiting til tax time, right?!?! :)

It is so nice though. It has everything on it: web cam, built in wireless modem, DVD player/burner, bigger and brighter screen, much more memory, much faster, etc. It's so pretty. I've been playing around with, trying to get used to what it has to offer. So far I really like it. The only negative is that it has Microsoft Works--I'm hoping all my documents on my old laptop will transfer to this one without turning into mumbo-jumbo.

By the way for those of you who are wondering, it is a Dell Inspiron 1525. You can check out Dell's website for its details.

On a totally side note, we went to a birthday party last week. It was Daddy's partner's littlest-she turned one. Since they go to a different church, it was nice to see everyone there that we don't see that often. All of their kids are getting big and there are some cute new ones too. And we got to see the new dog which was not so cute. Poor Bruser.