I am still alive!

I know, it's been a long, long time since I blogged . . .a week! EEK . . . .now that I'm down to -12 visitors (I don't know how that would be possible, but I'm sure I can figure out a way!) I'm back. We took a little trip to San Antonio to celebrate Thanksgiving with Andy's extended family . . . had a good time. We went to the Alamo (again) so that Ian could experience it immediately before he started studying it at school. I tried taking Christmas card pictures while we were there . . . and no, they weren't in Christmasy attire, but seeing that I have THREE pictures to send out in Christmas cards this year (I haven't sent out the last 2 years, but had pictures printed for them), I figured it's okay if only 1 of the 3 is a Christmasy picture (the one from "last year" is actually one from the series of V-day pics I took).

It's not so easy getting good pics of the 3 kids . . .at the same time. I would really love to know how to cut and paste a head so that it looked totally realistic!

Here are a few of the "rejects" . . . you'll have to wait for your Christmas card to see the winner!



In other news . . . .the "Griswald" families already have their yards full of decorations . .. in fact, some of them were fully decorated before Thanksgiving. We'll see if our decorations make it up this weekend.

So, plans are that every day of December (prior to Christmas, that is!), I'll share with you one of my favorite Christmas songs and a photo of a yard somewhere within 20 minutes of me (Hey, Erin . . .when are we going to make our annual car drive looking for the most "Griswaldy" house???)

And speaking of every day before Christmas, I have a pocket advent calendar that I need to fill with one activity per day for us to do . . . .HELP! Anyone have any ideas???