Christmas Morning

It was an early morning for Amelia. And for mom and dad. Abbey is getting the Santa idea better this year. She went right to bed Christmas eve and woke up early Christmas morning.

Stalkings first! I remember last year Abbey was way into chocolate. This year it was Amelia who wanted the chocolate more than anything. We found her later with half sucked chocolates all over the coffee table and her hands. None left for Abbey. Most had one bite missing (I don't know how you do that with a Hershey's Kiss) or they were sucked on and spit out. Fun fun!

Some one was way excited about the MARACAS but it wasn't Abbey....

After the morning rush was over, the Dora table and a few other items scattered around.

Elmo's Christmas

Someone asked us what the girls' favorite presents were. First I thought the amazing doll house that our favorite neighbor gave us. (they got it the day before Christmas and haven't stopped playing with it) Later looking at the pictures I remembered ELMO!!!! Both girls had so much fun looking at and playing with the elmo chair and "tickel me elmo." So cute.

Later that day we went to the Shafer's home for dinner and the girls had another present explosion. So many people love our girls. It is almost like having family here in Ohio. We are so blessed!

The Cougar King gets an A!

Congrats to the COUG for getting a 4.0 the first quarter of college. He made the Dean's and the Gibbs list.
Watch out Columbus State, don't make him angry.



No that is not Columbus State, that is a replica that Danielle made.
School tastes delicious.

Merry Christmas!!!!!

The Girls

Abbey 3 Amelia 1.5



Abbey 2.5 Amelia 1



Abbey 2 Amelia .5



Amelia .005 Abbey 1.5

Adult book store explodes, why were we there?

We Had Some Visitors!

If you can't tell we've misplaced our good camera....
So we had Ben's Best Friend from high school (Brooke) and his wife stay with us for Halloween. They were passing through to Colorado. We thought we'd show 'em a great time in Westgate. Well, on our way down Broad St. to visit the fabulos Science Museum, COSI, there was an EXPLOSION. No joke. There was a natural gas leak and it filled "The Cherry Box" and the house turned Adult Book Store EXPLODED. We were right there and had been seperated from our friends. We were behind the building in the ally (doing who knows what...) and Brooke and Christina were stuck at a stoplight. They saw the whole building blow up. We both thought the other was smashed by the tons of bricks that were sprayed into the air. To see a full article see THIS.

We still made it to COSI and back home to carve pumpkins. Just in time for the trick-o-treaters.





























We also took them to OSU. We ate lunch on "the big stairs." It is part of the OSU Architecture department. Abbey wanted to walk all the way to the top. So we ate at the tip top trying to keep our baby and Brooke and Christina's baby (Isobel) from falling down "the big stairs."























The whole building is made of concrete. Everything echoed. There are NO secrets in the Architecture Department at OSU.
And no flying brick possibilites. We had a semi-safe Halloween visit.