Merry Friggin' Christmas.

First and foremost, I never posted on Bree's birthday. She is 30. Everyone make up for my slothfulness and tell her how much you really care. And no (tastless) old jokes.


So here are the pictures of things mentioned and things not. Our tree hunt and decorations, the Missouriable weather and our little man. Ahem:

None of the trees were really impressive, but Hallie endorsed this one unflinchingly.

This is post-decoration. Of course it fell over once we got it in the stand, but i rigged it up to not do that anymore, then was told how to fix the stand, so now it really won't do it anymore.

Of course here are the real attention getters though. The girls think that Barry came just so they could touch, hold, kiss and goo over. The close-up picture is from today, so you've got the most up to date look at him. Here are a bunch of 'em. He us doing really pretty good. He has been fussier at times, then others he just sits and stares at everything. He is also doing pretty good about the day/night thing and pretty much goes right back to sleep after eating at night. Yesterday morning Bree was changing his diaper at about 6, she pulled off the old one off, and was working on putting on the new one, when the fire hose went off. She was recovering from that watery attack when #2 fired off all over her and the bed. We did some damage control for that one, and picked little man up and he spewed all over Bree. I think he has a sense of humor, or at least irony and great timing.











Some of the interesting things that have been happening out here involve the sky. I know most places have big dips and swoops in temperature and stuff, but this is really much. Sunday the 14th we were at about 60 degrees. Some rain, but really pretty nice. The next day we were hovering around mid 20's with about 4 inches of snow. Later in the week we had our very first ice storm, pictured here. This is when it warms back up enough to rain, but then immediately freezes again. This one left us about 1 inch of ice. This fell the night before a huge test in school, while they had closed just about everything else in town. (i chipped out this path so's I could take my family out of town).

Now those are the only paths that I keep clear cause we keep having storms that build on the original ice that fell. In fact Chris and Carrie came over before they left and Chris fell and slid down the whole driveway, and after another little skiff fell over the ice, a delivery guy did the same thing. Salt, shovels and hammers don't do a thing against it, in case you are asking yourself why I don't do more to fix it. Is hard. (look real close at the picture of the sign and you can see the rain frozen right to the face of it.) So now a little is coming off the roof and we have big ice sickles. Fun huh?

We stayed here in Missouri for Christmas and are having a wonderful time. So Merry Christmas to all and a post will come later about the day itself.