Miss Aquila

After much thought, Anna decided to be in the Miss Aquila pageant again this year. My baby girl has really grown up and I am so very proud of the young lady she is becoming.
The theme this year was "Airport High School Goes Green". I do not know whose idea this was, but it was a bad one. It was difficult to make an oufit out of material that we should recycle and have an outfit that you would not be embarrassed to wear.

Anna picked out her dress all by herself, once she tried it on she knew this was the one that she wanted. Everyone said how much more they loved her dress this year as compared to last year. Well, I guess Anna has better taste than me, because I pickd out the dress last year.

Anna placed 2nd Runner-Up again this year.

Learning to Clean

My mom has really been teaching TJ well, you say the word "mess" and he runs to go get the broom.

Christmas 2008

This year Christmas seemed to be a little more hectic than normal. Anna had her wisdom teeth pulled on December 23rd, so she was pretty much out of it until a couple of days after Christmas. I had a hard time finding what gifts to give this year and TJ is more active than ever. I debated on whether to put gifts under the tree this year in fear of coming home and seeing all of them unwrapped, but for the most part TJ did not bother the gifts depsite Anna's encouragement. I did get a new camera for Christmas, so hopefully I will take more pictures in 2009. Anna would not allow us to take many pictures of her this year due to her swallen face, but here is her opening the softball bat that sh had to have. With the help of GDennis she found it prior to Christmas, they even took it out of the box and was playng with it one evening. It sure is getting harder and harder to surprise her anymore.
TJ is kicked back on his John Deere lawn mover that he got.

This is pretty much how I felt Christmas Eve trying to make sure that I had everyhing ready to go for th next day.

We did visit Santa earlier this year, but TJ did not want to get close to him at all.

What cute kids! We used this picture on our Christmas cards.