Have I got some things to tell you

oh my there is really so much to tell. I have almost been avoiding this post because the list and pictures of things to share is unreal. first lets start with the tree. as you can see after we took all the decorations and lights off of the tree this is what was left. note that is not a tree skirt below the tree but all the needles. yup, ALL the needles. I filled 2 large ziplocs of the needles for next year for scents and then almost filled a 5 gallon bucket of needles. Now do you believe me about how dead this tree was? I have never seen a tree like this.

Next on the list is my boldness. I was bold in the face of adversity. I can talk a big gane to people I know but when it somes to confrontation with people I don't know I ALWAYS walk away and then later think of all the things that I wanted to tell them. Not this time folks. I knew what I wanted to say, and said it. I did not walk away. You want to know why? Because my baby was involved, that is why. My momma bear instincts came out. Here is as much of a short version as possible. Worth and I were in the parking lot of World Market and Target just to name a few of the stores. We were getting ready to leave. Worth was putting BellaRose in the car on the right side. I was getting in the drivers side. Of course when you are putting a baby in the carseat you will have the door wide open. Well there was an empty spot on that side, so the door could be wide open, no problem. Let it also be noted that there were tons of empty spots. Well as Worth was putting BellaRose in the car this woman comes flying in the spot and slams on her breaks throws her arms in the air when she sees our car door open and HONKS ON THE HORN!!!! I am yelling this to you. Who does that? Oh man I was on fire. Without a second thought I fly to her side of the car and tell her "NO YOU PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE! HE IS PUTTING A BABY IN THE CAR! YOU MOVE!". Worth gets out of the car at this point and just stares at her. She proceeds to pull in the spot! She almost takes out our mirror in the process. There is a girl in the next spot over who is using some choice words about what I should say to this woman, and tells me it is better me then her b/c she would not have handled it so well. Needless to say the lady did not get out of her car until we and the other girl had left. Worth and I were both shaking when we left. I kindly told the woman "MERRY CHRISTMAS".

Worth has asked me not to share pictures of this next story. He chopped his thumb with an axe the other night while he was cutting kindling for an outdoor fire we were going to have. He comes into the house with his hand tripping blood saying he is okay. Ben, Noah, and Bill ended up taking him to the emergency room and after 3 hours of waiting he got 7 stitches. New Years Eve he started to get a fever and went to bed. We had a small gathering at our house and poor guy was in bed the whole time. New Years day rolls around and he has a temp. of 102 and decides to go back to the hospital b/c there was fear of an infection. When he gets there they put him on an antibiotic drip and think that he might have to stay over night. Thankful he did not, but he is not doing so well still. We think he might have gotten sick on top of this all. I feel so bad for him. 4 days of fever and a stitched up hand, that is all black and blue. 2008 is starting out a little rough.


like I mentioned we did have a little gathering of people to our house for New Years Eve. It was a blast other then Worth being in bed. Will was cracking us up, running around with a remote in his mouth. His girlfriend was fast asleep in her crib so we had Will all to ourselves. Margaret and I brought in the New Years with some "Hurkies". I have no idea how to spell that, but I am talking about a cheerleading jump :). The top right picture is New Years morning. Rainy decided she would sleep with Ben on the air matress. Ben moved when he woke up with his bottom on the floor, but Rainy thought she would stay. She did not seem to care that she too was on the floor, just as long as she was close to Ben.

New Years day while Worth was in the hospital it started to snow and we woke up the next morning to a couple of inches of snow(snowy picture top left). It was so wonderful, but way too cold and windy for BellaRose to go out in it, although Atticus loved it. He just looks right in the snow! Rainy is loving that B-Rose is eating Cheerios as you can see from the picture in the high chair. Well thanks for reading this and sticking it out through the end. I know it is a lot to take in! Happy 2008. Hope yours started out a little better then ours!