Our own bloody horror movie!

Alex and Cammy were having a rare moment of getting along and playing and wrestling. Ok, not that rare, but siblings, you get it. Well, boys being boys, Alex's knee slammed into Cameron's nose pretty hard. NO, the glasses did not break! Can you believe it. But his nose did start bleeding. He's had more bloody noses than Alex and I combined! He starts freaking out. He's hurt, he's scared, he's mad! He's crying, screaming at Alex and spitting blood all over me. I really should have had Alex take a picture, but he was pretty upset too. By the time we get Cammy to the bathroom and Jim cleaning up his nose, I am washing blood off of both arms. I'm in short sleeves and washing them sleeves to fingers. It was gross! Then I had to clean it out of the carpet. This kid makes me do so many things I just don't want to have to deal with!

An hour later Jim and I are in the office. Jim says, "I keep saying that if Alex would knock Cameron good one time maybe Cameron would stop bugging him so much." This is while the two of them are playing nicely in the living room. Cameron got over the "I hate you's." He forgave Alex and told him he was sorry for saying that to him. Then he even yelled after him that he is a great brother. Awww. Another happy ending.

Basement Fun!

David came over the other night and helped Jim clean up and organize the basement. It looks AWESOME! So, now the kids can play down there. The big tub of Legos is down there. The big rule is that they have to be put away before they come up. Alex normally doesn't like to venture downstairs, but for Legos it is a different story. They had a blast last night and got along so well. That is until Cameron had to come to bed and was playing tricks on Alex by turning the lights off on him!

I am hoping to move some of these toys downstairs. We managed to get 2 of Cam's big ones down there. They are just stacked on top of each other in the toy room.

Now if you call and say it's quiet, I can probably say, "He's downstairs."

Fun girls night out!

Andrea took me out tonight. We went to Steamer's for dinner which was really good. Then we went to a jazz, big band, orchestra like Christmas concert. It was awesome. Her husband plays the french horn and was playing. It was beautiful. Had a blast!

Beginning the season

We've started celebrating the joyous season with fun activities. Cameron is making an advent tree on the fridge. Jim is going to have us all send cards to soldiers overseas. I went to an inspiring Christmas celebration for the women at Andressa's church. Monday night Andrea is taking me to a Christmas jazz concert that her husband is playing in. It should be a lot of fun.

Gobble, gobble!!

I hope that everyone had a very happy Thanksgiving. We went to Janelle's this year and had a great time and wonderful food. Kai made the turkey and stuffing. We also had mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, cookies and I made a pumpkin cheesecake. Of course we left with full bellies. Not a good football game, though. Dallas was beating Seattle so bad, we just turned off the game. The boys hung out with Kai and watched Kung Fu Panda and played video games, while the adults talked and got things together.