We had a super Thanksgiving yesterday. Ate way too much. Today we went to pick out our Christmas tree out at Hauser Lake. It was a blast. Then we came home and put up the tree, it was a lot bigger once we got it in the house, 10 feet tall. Not bad for a little charlie brown tree. Then we went to "Fantasy in Lights", which is where they light up the whole downtown Coeur d'Alene with Christmas lights. They have fireworks, singing, a parade and much more. Then we went to the "Festival of Trees", which is where several businesses in the community decorate Christmas trees beautifully, I am talking $1500 - $2000 trees, and Auction them off for charity. It was a great time, but whoah are we tired. Amber is zonked and Jimmy is just about there. I gotta get off to bed too, just wanted to share our joy.

By the way, yesterday Jim and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! YeeHaw!!! Now we are just looking forward to the next 80.

Happy Holidays!!!

Not much has happened in the past few days. Oh yeah, Jim got a promotion!!! Okay that is pretty huge. But other than that, not much. My parents are coming down for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to seeing them, and my GG. We are just going to have a really relaxing time, I hope. Jim and I are going through a body cleanser right now and I am experiencing some really strange side effects. Like headaches, feeling lethargic, then sudden bursts of energy, lower back pain (could be kidney pain) and skin breakouts in really weird areas of my body. But, from what I understand, this is all normal while the body is detoxing. Wow, it is pretty amazing what "crap" we harbor in our bodies. No pun intended. We have been feeling pretty good today. Our normal Sunday nap time turned out to be an afternoon of speed cleaning. Guess that is a good thing, since we are going to have company for the next week. I will have some new pics to post after this week is over, hopefully. Peace out...

We are so proud of AMBER!!!!
She has a goal in her 1st grade class of reading 140 minutes for the entire month. She read 905 minutes and got the Superstar Reader award for her class. Her teacher gave her a new book and put her picture in the "unstoppable picture frame" in class which is posted for the whole month.
So tonight we went to pizza and celebrated, then we got a cake and a book for Amber to celebrate. She is our little SUPERSTAR!!! Here is a pic of her reading to her dolly's and the pic from tonight's big Celebration.
GOOD JOB AMBER DOODLE!!!

On Tuesday the kids got to dress up for school. We, as a family, don't celebrate Halloween, but we still let the kids dress up for school and then we take them to the church for the Harvest Party, which is more like a mini carnival. Lots of fun.. Here are some pics from this year and previous years... 2006~J was a ninja and A was an angel, 2005~J was a monkey and A was a lady bug, 2004~J was Batman and A was Cinderella, 2003~J was Batman and A was a fairy princess.