Weekend Update

Lyn picked the kids up Friday afternoon on his way home to stay the night with us– we decided to go to our favorite and their favorite place…Asahi Teppenyaki – Fire Food as Deegan likes to call it…..We love this place. We had our favorite chef Hamburg and even did a special “fire” show for Deegan! But I gotta tell ya – I think we might have to frequent a little less often……the prices have gone up and the portions have gone down…..$232 later……it was still a great time and the kids enjoyed it as usual.

Saturday afternoon – Lyn and Colin headed off to the Stars game (tickets compliments of Carrie and Daniel!). They had a fantastic time getting in some much needed grandpa/grandson bonding time and doing “boy” things. Back at home – Ashley and I decided to take Cheyenne, Deegan and Shelby to the movie. If you haven’t seen “Hotel for Dogs”…..GO! It was a mixture of emotions, a few tears, lots of laughs and just a really good time!

Saturday night – we met Michael and Sandi at Hook Line and Sinker to chow down on the best catfish in the city and to return the kids.

Sunday – Lyn and I were exhausted! We’re just not used to having little kids around and it just wears us out! We did go to Dakota’s early volleyball tournament, but after that we laid around all afternoon and I think we even both took a nap!

MLK Day – what a great day – Lyn had to work, which left me time alone to do what I wanted which was to CLEAN my house! I really hadn’t had a chance to get caught up since the holidays were over, so it was so nice to be able to mop my floors, vacuum, dust, everything! Got it all done with some free time to spare. All in all it was a fantastic weekend!

Snug as a Bug........

Snug as a bug in a rug........errrr.....a Snuggie that is! The snuggie has arrived! For those of you that don't know the story....the commercial has been on tv for awhile now and everytime it would come on, Lyn would say (jokingly) "I need to get me one of those".....so I ordered him one for christmas. It ended up on backorder because of the overwhelming response from the tv commercial, but so as not to disappoint, I wrapped up a picture of it and put it under the tree. He was so excited when he opened up and found out he was really getting one! So here he is all SNUGGIE'd up and comfortable....he even matches the couch!

Time Flies

Wow - it's been forever since I've posted! Been busy playing catchup from the Holidays......I'll hit the highlights and move on.

Christmas was really good - everyone enjoyed themselves, had tons to eat and lots of presents!
New Years Eve was spent with Shawn and Lori in Shreveport - didn't win any money but did manage to catch a "bug" and spent all of New Years Eve sick! Not so fun!
New Years Day we took down all of the decorations and ate blackeyed peas of course!
January 3rd - Transiberian Orchestra concert - AWESOME!!! and the twins birthday.
January 5th - back to work and back to a routine.
January 6th - Shannon's 26th birthday!
January 7th - received some not so great news - Dad's cancer has re-surfaced again! We are in the process of making a decision on a treatment plan, but it looks like he will try a milder chemo this time to make sure he doesn't get to the point he was at before. We've got to focus on the situation at hand, continue to rely on our faith in God and move forward.