A Big Day for Tiler

Look at this smile, he is so proud of this new

driving permit and I am just plain worried!!

Is he really old enough to drive??

At least he is tall enough to reach the peddles.

The Christmas Tree 2008

I was going to try and get away with no tree this year but guess what!!

Sophie came over the week before Christmas.....so the tree goes up.

I gave Jen all the memorable Christmas decorations years ago,

so I have a small tree. It is already sparkly , so I only put little frosted balls

and birds on it. That is all I need......WRONG!!

Sophie was very upset that I stuck one of

the little birds on the top of the tree.

She said there had to be an angel or a star and that was that!!

So we made a star.

It is only red construction paper but

we think it is a very nice star, it will

probably last for many years.

We agreed that we would put some glitter on it next year.

As you can see, it made her very happy!!

Sophie's Christmas Progam

Here are some pictures of Sophia's

Christmas Program at her school. She is in the first grade

at The Church of Joy Christan School and she

loves to sing. She also had a speaking part

and did an excellent job.

I do not have pictures of the program itself

because the pictures are always of such bad quality when

the lights are down. I feel lucky to have these pictures.

Tiler is always happy to attend his sisters events.

Sophia does not like loudness, she is like me in this way.


I love to look at the expressions on the
kids faces while they wait for the program to start.

I especially like this one.

Life’s Little Pleasures!!

This is just one more thing that makes me so happy.

My little herb garden on my patio.

I have tried to grow herbs other times in my life but never had success,

especially in the summer.

Now I know it is easy!!

That is if you have a good source of water.

Since I installed my little drip system on my patio

growing has become so much easier and the herbs have become my favorite.

On Thanksgiving I was able to just go out and pick some for my stuffing

and today I had fresh sage, rosemary and thyme for my pork roast gray.

The best part is at Thanksgiving there was no running around to every grocery store in town

to get the herbs at the last minute…just to fine out everyone was OUT of fresh sage.

This is what I have growing right now,

lemon thyme, common thyme, sage, rosemary, curly leaf parsley, Italian parsley and sweet basil.

I planted these the first of November and am curious to see how they grow year around.