Abby's Contract........

Ok....we have discussed Abby's mouth before.....well now we have a contract that she agrees to "be good, say only good" or we can take her car away for 2 weeks!!!!

Here she is reading the "contract" to the Judge (I mean Dad).
The Judge is asking questions pretaining to the contract..... The Defendant......

The Contract is accepted......

I love our legal system!!!!

And I have to say so far....so good!

Happy 9th Birthday Ben........

Today....December 27th is Ben's 9th Birthday!!! We celebrated yesterday by spending the day in St. Louis at the Mill's Mall. We had a great day........

Hope you have a great day..........We love you Ben!!!!

Christmas Cookies.......

This was our first attempt at making Christmas Cookies. We had a good time. We decided next year we need a bunch of different shapes (so I will look at the end of year clearance stuff!) and alot of different icings.

Here is Gabe testing the icing.....
Abby getting ready to start decorating......

We always thought Ben had a "brown nose"!

The aftermath.......It was funny how much fun they were having until it was time to clean up....they all disappeared......

We hope you all have a Blessed and Merry Christmas.........

Gabe's 1st Grade Christmas Program

Gabe had his 1st Grade Christmas Program on December 11. It was very cute. The theme was the Elves Impersanators (I know that's spelled wrong?!).

Here is Elvis...Gabe is just to the left of Elvis in a red sweater with white strip.
There he is again...this time scratching his ear......

He got to play the triangles in the "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" song.....

This was three of the six 1st grade classes. They split it up because not everyone could fix in this little gym.....

He's on the end waving good night to everyone.....

BTW.....all these photos were taking by Ben!! He came with us and because we had to sit so far back he got right up front to take some photos. I think he did a great job.

Operation MOM Repo.......

OK....I know it's been awhile. I honestly did not think alot of people read my blog until I kinda stopped updating! I will try harder to entertain you guys with the "happenings" of our family. So without further notice....

Operation MOM Repo.....

Here's the story. Abby has a way with her mouth that sometimes is not very "nice". Since getting her license we can use this to our advantage and take her car away. One morning before school she started in again, refused to give over her keys and left for school. Now normally I would leave this kinda stuff up to Brian but since he was working I had to come up with something to get her attention right then......this is where Operation MOM Repo comes in. With the help of Ali (and Gabe, he was feeling icky that day), we drove to the Effingham High School and took Abby's car! It was so funny....and I think it got the point acrossed to her. She did not know anything until she came out to her car after school and the car was gone!!! :)

Ali and Gabe with "the key"....

Here is the "subject" for the repo........
Ali and Gabe putting in the key......So far, so good!

They got it opened!! Quick before we get caught!!

Ali with the successful repo!!!!
Sorry Abby but you are such an easy target sometimes!!! We Do love you!!!

The Benny Elf Below.....

This is funny......click on the arrow to get the video to play. Ben is going to kill me when he sees it! :)

Benny Elf

Send your own ElfYourself eCards