Now on Facebook!

Thanks to Debra I have joined the ranks of people on facebook. I fear that is will cause some problems for me. Now I have another program I can use to see what others are up to. That just increased the amount of time I will be sitting here instead of doing my work. If you are on facebook and I have missed you and you would like to be my friend let me know. Happy whatever it is that you do for fun while sitting at your computer. It is back to work for me.

Mom and Mack Dancing

This was taken with Joe's Palm so the quality is was it is but you get the idea. This was taken at Frankiln's Wedding Recption.

First ER Trip of 2009

This will be the last post for today. Because this is not a very happy post I have to give it a spot of it's own. Today is the second day of a new year and we have had our first trip to the ER. Big Joe was awoken from a deep sleep around 10:30 last night with a bad migraine. After trying his normal routine to stop the migraine, all the while getting worse not better, he decided it was time to get help. So at 3:30 this morning I drove him to the ER for help. After some shot into an IV for migraines, one bag of IV fluid, adn two an a half hours we returned home.

So much for the healthier new year!

New Year's Revisted

Ok, here is the next recap. With kids being out of school for two weeks Aunt Teddie and Aunt Kim have made great use of the time and have taken three of my kids off my hands for a couple of days each week. They both live on Joe's way to work so his has taken them and dropped them off one day and picked them up after work the following day. My kids have loved this. It is sad that while we live so close to their cousins they don't seem to get to gather more often. With this week being New Year's Joe dropped them off on Tuesday and picked them up on New Year's Eve (we had one more house of Christmas lights to look at. Acutally to walk through. It is amazing inside. I think that will become a new tradition. We always look at the lights outside but we decided to look inside this year.) After our trip we joined the McKnight side for some food and games until everyone left at around 10 pm. We came home and played our Wii until midnight. Once we rang in the New Year and finshed a few more games on the Wii (because everyone was awake) it was off to bed.

New Year's Day was slow going until we headed to my parent's house. Here we ate lots of food and played whatever we all played. Everyone did their own thing with their own people. I think we all had a good time (expect for Big Joe who was fighting a headache). We arrived at 3pm and stayed until 9pm.

I think that will do it for my New Year's recap. So with all holidays out of the we were are good and school starts on Monday. Yeah!

Here is hoping that you will have a happy, healthy, and safe 2009!

Christmas Revisited

Now that the holidays are behinds us it is time for a holiday recap. Because it could get long I will do individual posts so you have a better chance of making it through one before you have to do something else or get to bored.

We had a very nice and somewhat quiet Christmas. Joe had to work on Christmas Eve (CE) but after work we went to his families traditional CE party. Here we exchange gifts with each family and the kids put on a live nativity. This year there was a scripted program with some songs included to help set the tone for the nativity. The kids had fun playing a bells for a couple of songs. After the party we carry out or own CE tradition of driving around the neighborhood I grow up in (Moon Valley). This year we piled my brother's kids into the back of the truck with our kids. We love to look at all the lights and on CE many of the streets are lined with luminaries. It is a sight to see. We love it!

Christmas morning was the typical wake up and open presents. The kids made out like bandits this year. I gave in and Joe and I bought them a Wii and some additional games. At about 9 am the missionaries in our ward joined us for a simple breakfast (Hot Cocoa and Cinnamon Rolls). After breakfast we taught them how to play "It Came to Pass" and we are proud to say that one missionary is addicted to it. They needed a place to call home so after a few rounds of the game they used our cell phones to call home. After the calls they wanted to play the game some more so we play with them until about 3pm. They had plans with another set of missionaries for dinner. Shortly after they left Joe went and picked up his mom, two brothers, and one sister. Then came out to our home for dinner and some friendly games of bowling on the Wii (even Grandma McKnight played!). We did not get to see any of my family for Christmas because the rest of those that live close by went up to Utah.

The day after Christmas Joe had to go to work so there wasn't much time for playing. However, one of Joe's nephews was getting married on Saturday in Las Vegas so we decided to take a short trip up there for his wedding. He was Lucky enough to get off of work early on Friday so as soon as he got home and we were really to go off we went. We arrived at about dinner time. Thank goodness for Walmarts and McDonalds because we came a little unprepared for our trip so we were able to get what we needed and get dinner at the same time. We camped out in a condo complex that Joe's oldest brother worked on. (I don't know what he does but it was free.) It was a very nice place just down for the Strip. We were there for the Wedding and Reception on Saturday and drove home on Sunday because Joe had to be back to work on Monday morning.

Look for New Year's and our first ER trip of the year later today. Kiley is up from her nap and wants lunch.