Funny Boy

So today while getting Nate in his Car seat I notice a small wet spot on his shorts.."Did you pee a little buddy?" I ask. " Nope, it's just water" he replies. "Where did you get water?" I ask "From my penis" he replies.

2009 - A year in Review

2009 seemed to have went by in a whirl. Seems like a year passed in 6 months. Time is flying. 2009 has been a pretty uneventful year for our immediate family and for that I am thankful. Kids our growing and developing so fast that I feel like I am just trying to soak in each day. In September, Samantha will start school and I just don't feel ready to share yet. Nate will be lost without her at first I am sure. Fred and I both turned 30 this year. Fred's birthday was rather uneventful. His wife wasn't kind enough to plan anything. My Birthday however was stellar. Fred along with the help of our good friend Michelle planned a Amazing party. It might have actually been Michelle with some help from Fred but alas it was awesome. Sumo wrestling inside a church lobby! Many people pitched in, and I was blown away. I have pretty amazing friends and family!

In our extended family we have seen both Happiness and Sadness. My beautiful cousin Mandy passed away suddenly at only 31. She left a Husband, two children, her parents and Brother far far two early. So hard to understand, and hard not to be angry, hard to hold onto faith in a Loving God when things like this happen. I think of her often and although I didn't see her more then a few times a year I miss her. She had the sweetest voice with her English accent still hanging on, after being in Canada for like 18 years.

2009 brought new babies to our extended family, a couple of my cousins had kids. So great to see. There was also two weddings in my Dad's family. Two of my cousins wed, sadly we missed these events but the pictures were great! And another wedding took place, This one a epic event! My Mom and Wayne have been together for 14 years and they FINALLY wed! So great that he is now officially my Step Dad!

Fred continues to work for Eecol, this year he celebrated 10 years with the company. I am pretty confident he will be there until retirement. I am still home full time and did work at a couple of pools occasional. This summer was pretty busy as I was helping a friend work Farmers markets most Saturdays. Fun times! And so exciting to be a part of a new business and watching the take off!

2009 has been a challenging year for our Church. We have been without a lead minister for the full year. We have been blessed with many great guest speakers, but it will be nice to have some consistency back. We pray 2010 will bring this. We have seen people in the Church step up to new responsibility. We have seen and experienced much growth in Relationships. Sadly we have seen people we adore and people that make Journey home to us leave our Church. All for various understandable reasons, still can't help but miss them though.

We look forward to what 2010 will bring. There is sure to be some fun times! A Disney World adventure. Fred and I will celebrate 10 years of wedded bliss. There are many babies in the works....None for us but amongst our extended family and close friends. Hopefully a new pastor. I think it will be a good year!

Christmas Is Coming

SAMI it is

Samantha is getting to the age where she can spell her name. The problem is her name is so long. The other problem is that we all use a shortened form of her name so we decided it was time to figure out exactly how we would spell that shortened version. We decided to let her choose herself. We gave her four options.

SAMIE
SAMMI
SAMI
SAMMIE

She chose SAMI. We tried mixing the list up and she chose the same three times is a row, so SAMI it will be.

Games Wish list

We are big games fans here at the Best House. We are Big Catan players and have all the expansions and love them. Also Love the Ticket to Ride - have played both North America and Eurpoe. We would like to expand our game repertoire. There has been quite a few games we have heard of over the years that we would love to play and or acquire.

Carcazonne
Ticket to Ride Markin
Puerto Rico
Bohnanza
Phase 10 - Card game

Have any favorite games not listed that you think we might like?

Bite Me??

I don't understand this phrase. It is a phrase that one says in anger to another, or in joking envy or what ever. The problem is what if they followed through? It would not at all be pleasant for the person who said the phrase, it would hurt them. Therefore this phrase is dumb.

Pumpkin Carving.

Last night we had what is becoming a annual event, a pumpkin Carving Extravaganza!!! This year there was a more free hand. A couple of old school Jack o lanterns! There was also a lot of Patterns!

These are the three that came out of our House. The First is Fred and I's. I picked the pattern and gutted the Pumpkin but carving credit goes to him.



It was pretty busy around the table lastnight so The kids and I did there choices this morning.

The second is Samantha's choice and Sammie and Nate both had a hand in gutting it, and then I was left to do the carving. Under Samantha's constant supervision!


Lastly this one is Nate's choice. This time they did not want to touch the pumpkin guts again, so we cheated and used the backside of somebodies who left there pumpkin here lastnight!




I always Joke about Fred not letting me touch things that require any amount of artistic skill or steadiness of hand. Which is totally not true, it is just he is such a perfectionist and would way rather do it. SO I bug him. So it is very very rare that I do the pumpkin Carving...I would say this was a first and I think I did pretty good if I do say so myself!!

The rest of the Pumpkins done by friends of ours can be found on Flickr.