The kiddies at Christmas

Isn't Abby adorable? The earrings and the "lipstick" she's putting on?!! Hilarious!! She had to wear those earrings and put them on first thing in the morning.

Grandma and Grandpa. I love my momma and poppa. Even if Dad is pulling a Mr. Rogers. They're so cute!


My little sister and older sister. Post-singing of every Christmas song known to man. It's tradition.

Holly and her beau. I don't think she knew I took this...


Tori and I while we were singing Christmas songs. You should see Tori rock out. The girl has some serious moves. Watch her here. The hip action and headbanging are priceless.

The girls LOVE Alex. And he's not quite sure what he's done to deserve such a punishment, but there Abby is cuddled up to him.


Remember how I said the girls love Alex?.... yeah.


Ellie got a new barbie!!!


Drew is rocking the sunglasses - he thought they were hilarious! Isn't my sister beautiful?


I think it's hilarious that Drew poses for pictures. He's at that fun age where he does goofy things like that.

Christmas 2008 part 1

Drew and Grandpa having fun playing on the couch. Drew LOVED going upside-down like that!


Abby had to get in on the fun too! Grandpa likes to play it cool, but you can tell he's LOVING having the kids crawling all over him vying for his attention!


I had fun decorating my house this year. I have a lovely mantle and decorated it the same as my couch table. I loved it, it was so pretty all lit up!


I love the light behind the flowers. This is a bouquet Paul and Jill sent Mom for coming to stay with them while Jill was adjusting to new little Jacob. It was really beautiful!


Mmmm Peanut Blossoms! These aren't necessarily pretty, but I loved taking a picture of them. I did these and the snickerdoodles on the same day. I was busy!




I love this picture of the snickerdoodles. It almost makes me feel like a food photographer. Oh to have a fancy camera!!! But I love what I get from my new little point-n-shoot!

Dear Megan. And Jules.

Dear Megan.

I'm sorry I'm the worst blogger in the entire world. Please forgive me. I have been typing until my eyeballs shrivel up and pop out of the sockets. It has not been fun. But I have some fun things to blog about over Christmas. Stay tuned. I think. At the very least, I have cute kids to post pictures of. Sorry I stink.

Love, Sara.

PS, how do you find that youtube of mark telling the horrible rabbit-killing story at the baby shower?

Dear Jules.

I know you tagged me. See above.

Love, Sara.

Oh the sleepiness of me!

So here I sit. It's parent-teacher conference day. The parents come in from 7:20 until who knows when. 9:30 maybe? Or maybe it's 10:00. I have absolutely know idea. I'm hoping it's 9:30. I teach family & consumer science. cooking, early childhood careers, life skills. While it's all very valuable information, it's not a course parents particularly value. I had a record-breaking 9 parents today. Only one was of a child of concern.

I am B-O-R-E-D. I did bring work with me to do, and I did some of it, but goodness I'm more exhausted than I am bored. I am sitting in a gym looking at all the long lines of parents wanting to talk to teachers. Poor parents, I'm sure they're bored to tears also. Even worse? Some poor kids got roped into walking around trying to sell their wares. I just had a group of 3 boys walk by. One is holding a pumping thing full of coffee. One is holding an open (nasty!) box of Krispy Kremes and one is carrying a basket with the cups, sugars, and all the other necessary accoutrement's. It's now occurring to me that I probably should spellcheck this blog.

I rarely use this as a forum to vent, but today I am venting. I detest parent-teacher conference day. Here's what I say. If you have a child in school and you are visiting the teachers, it is a long, painful and often unpleasant day for those teachers. Surprise them with a little treat. A brownie? A Reese's cup? A cup of tea? What I would give for a cup of hot water right now. I feel like something crawled in my lungs and is trying to die. I slept with the humidifier on last night though, and I'll chug the tea today in hopes that I can stave off the illness. It might help if I slept more than 4 hours a night, don't ya think?

I'm done now. I get to go back to my room and recover for a little bit before I have darling students. My students really are darling though.

I think I might go out to my car and take a nap.

Nasty people.

So once upon a time I wanted to see how many people had been to my blog. It's not many, friends. Not many at all. Occasionally go and look to see where people are and what not. Today I looked at search threads. You can see what people searched to get to your blog, but then this one also tracks what people search within your blog. There was an interesting search thread that some nasto searched today. When I say interesting, I don't really MEAN interesting. I mean the weirdo was really psychotic. Why would you search someone's blog for those things????!!! I mean, it's not like you're searching the whole world wide web. No no, these were searches WITHIN my blog. And they were all from the same IP address. In Ashburn. Over like 5 minutes. So nasty ashburn person whose IP is 65.216.218.133, go get your jollies somewhere else. You're nasty. And not the good kind of nasty.

Show yourself Nasty Mcnasterson.

3 blind mice, see how they run....

Soooooooooo as I am wont to do, I went on a blind-ish date tonight. Sheesh was this guy a doozy - all kinds of asking crazy questions and even trying to hold my hand!! He might as well have driven me up a canyon and displayed all the hey-nanner-nanners.

Ok, I'm kidding. I had a fabulous time. Except maybe I laughed too much. I do that sometimes, but they were all genuine laughs - not a single "I should laugh because he meant to be funny there." Real laughs. It was delightful, actually. Questions were good, conversation was fun. I hope he asks me out again soon.

In a hurry much?

To say it has been a crazy couple of days is a gross understatement. At least I knew I had to do a load of whites today, otherwise tomorrow would be a bit.... breezy. So I separated out all my dirty clothes and made a big pile and threw them in the wash. In a hurry? Yes indeed I was.

I was a little curious as to why the was was so clanky. We sometimes have a clanky washing machine, so I didn't think too much of it. Maybe the load was extra big or unbalanced or something, oh well. That is, until I went to put the clothes in the dryer. I opened the lid and this is what I saw:


What's that?? Can't tell what that is?? Well, you hopefully see that something is wrong. It is a load of whites with some big old black thing in there. Let me help you out....

Yes. My croc went into the wash. It is now very clean, I think. I'm awesome.