Random Days and Nights

Our tree is up. Some presents are bought (but not wrapped, of course), the Christmas cards are ordered, and I have decided not to bake any of my Christmas goodies this year. Oh yeah, the holidays are definitely in full swing!

We had a Goers' family Christmas party last night...and it was, by far, the best Goers' party we have had so far. Minnesota got hit with a serious blizzard this weekend, yet the party was still on...and once people got there, they didn't want to leave! It was a wonderful way to start to celebrate the season with the people we care about.

The following are just some random shots over the last few weeks...

Snuggling with Daddy before bed...watching Scooby Do, I believe.

Ava loves getting piggy-back rides. I didn't realize how exhausting it was! Love her big belly hanging out here.

She gets so tired of me taking pictures of her...

This doesn't even look like her...her hair looks so long! And even when Ava looked at the picture, she thought it was Savannah from her daycare, instead of herself.

This is a model pose if I've ever seen one. What happened to the chubby cheeks??

Last weekend, we met up with Scott's sister and her kids to see Santa at Southdale. She and Santa had a great conversation about Cinderella. And even Santa commented about how good she did sitting on his lap, and just chatting. At least she has Santa fooled!

Tara, Hunter, and Aidan

Aidan is very serious about things...

This is poor Scott after 3 hours of snowblowing. His hat froze to his head, so he gave up on wearing it. I like to sing about "Scott the Snowman" to the tune of Frosty...!

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Goodbye Sweet Spanky

This is a post that I'm not very excited to write. As you probably know, our oldest dog, Spanky, had struggled with health issues (ear infections, seizures) his whole life, and recently, his health had severely deteriorated. He hadn't been eating, his ear infection was so severe his face was swollen, he had a hard time getting up the stairs, and he very rarely wanted to play. Last week we got a few tail wags from him, and he ate a few bowls of food, but it was a 50-50 chance that he would actually keep the food down. On Thursday, we made the decision that if he wasn't any better by this weekend, we were going to put him down. I know Scott didn't want to make that decision as Spanky was a very special dog to him - he truly was his little buddy, following him around everywhere, wanting to be wherever Scott was, and howling his sadness whenever Scott would leave him. Throughout Friday night, it became clear that Spanky wasn't going to have a miraculous recovery...

Happily Ever After?

Lately, I've been adding to the Disney Princess movies in our collection. Last week I bought Beauty and the Beast for Ava. That was never a favorite movie of mine, but now that I've seen it several times in the last week, it's growing on me. I figure this is a good chance for me to catch up on some of the stories that I missed out on! Watching all of these princess movies has me thinking about fairy tales...why is it that it's always the evil stepMOTHER? Or the mom is dead, and no one has taken her place? Very rarely is it the father who is evil, or dead. This has actually come up as a topic in more than one conversation lately, and has me a bit intrigued. Fairy tales are often not very happy - and usually someone dies at some point. I was a giving an overview of Snow White to a friend of mine, and as I was going through the story, both of us were horrified at the message - mom dies, evil stepmother wants to murder her pretty stepdaugh...

What's Black & White?

It's officially summer in Minnesota. We've passed the 1-2 weeks where it's pleasant outside, and have moved into the hot and humid midwestern summer season. This calls for some FUN in the SUN! We were hoping that Ava would enjoy the water a little more this year than she did last year (I took her to several weeks of swimming lessons in a lap pool, where the temp of the water was just a wee bit too chilly. It didn't go well for either of us.) Plus, she has a new swimming suit I was anxious to have her try out, so at the very least, I knew she would look cute. :) So, Daddy decided to set up the sprinkler for her one night after dinner. This, too, did not go very well. Perhaps it's because he sprung the sprinkler on her without warning, causing her to run to me, with fear in her eyes, and very wet hands... After that, we never got her to come near the sprinkler (way to go, Daddy), and she decided to play with my potted flowers...with h...

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