New Years Eve!!!

One last Family Picture before 2010!!!

This is how we rung in the New Year!!! Neither of the boys had gone to sleep yet, so I got them up, put them in our bed...turned on the TV to Dick Clark's Rocking New Years Eve Ball Drop and we made Daddy sit up at the last minute to watch it all happen...then we made Daddy hug and kiss us all and then he went BACK to sleep and I put the kids in bed! Then I went and finished a book I've been reading! Pretty good evening!!! :o)
Happy New Year, everybody!!!

Carrie & Joe came to visit!!

Carrie and Joe braved the bad weather reports tonight to come up and visit us up here in the Higher Altitudes!!! :o) We had a really good time! They brought presents and yummy treats for everyone and then we played several hands of ROOK while keeping an eye on the sleet/snow outside!!! :o) Carrie and Joe (who have not played in a LONG time......won.) :o( We shall have to hone up on out ROOK playing skills and BEAT them the next time!!!

Carrie and Mackie with his new Fire Truck!! He's excited!

Carrie looking a bit scary at Mackie!!! (Sorry Carrie...it was to cute not to use it on here!!)

Creston entertained us with his FULL fire suit! (The guitar is an Axe!)

Watching Creston open his 5th Birthday present...ALL 4 Superman Movies!!! THANKS, Auntie Carrie!!!!Explaining Rook...

Photo Op!!

Yup! It's snowing... Snowing some more!!!

They made it off the Mountain safely and we were glad to have been able to visit with them!!! You two come back soon!!!!!

Our 2009 Christmas Picture...

Had some trouble getting this thing taken! I wanted to get the "twinkle" of our tree in the shot, but in doing so, somehow it made the first picture fuzzy... .....then the second one was also fuzzy....guess maybe I was trying to zoom in too much...I was using the "self photo" option on the camera! Never made it fuzzy before!...

I finally talked Mack into taking it for us. The third time was a charm!

Happy Holidays, everyone!!!

Look at what happened to BOONE!

This is some of what the ice storm did to Boone on Christmas Eve/Day/Night! A TOTAL Mess! Most all of the trees I saw had the tops broken out of them. All over town... Campus... everywhere! Looked like a tornado had gone through!

Christmas Day 2009...Part 1

Our Christmas Morning started out pretty good! Mark and I awoke around 8:15ish and the boys were still asleep. It was nice to get to sleep that long since we'd been up till 2:00am. Mark stepped into the bathroom and his pager went off. It was a fire alarm in Boone. He asked me what it was and I told him...he got to listening and realized that they had 2 calls going on and that there was also a house fire in progress! (If the paid firemen are able and in the area, they are expected to return to work in the event of a actual Fire.) He called and found out that he needed to come back in, so he got ready and off he went. He wasn't sure how long he'd be gone but said to wait until he got back to open presents with the boys.

Off he goes!

Mackie is wondering what is going on!
Creston is looking dejected since he will once again have to WAIT to open presents! Bless his little heart! It's hard on the little fellas when they don't quite understand what is happening!

Mackie, however, was in a pretty good mood! Remember, he has yet to open ANY presents since he was asleep last night!
Paw-Paw came up and got Creston to tkae him down to stay with them for the day while Mark was gone. The boys got to being a bit rowdy and were fighting more than usual. They had pity on me! Bless them!!!! Mackie and I stayed at the house puttering around and tidying it up. I finally let him have his stocking presents. He got this little Tractor! As you can see...he LIKED it!!!

This is Mackie talking to daddy on the Phone. Boone got quite the Ice Storm during the night, so aside from the house fire that morning, the firemen were having to stay in town for most of the day to help go on Fire Alarm calls and to also cut MANY trees out of the roads.

(below is a picture that I took a couple of days after the Ice Storm!

~ note that the tops of the trees are all broken!!)It was a real mess! Mark didn't make it home until after 6:00pm.

He was worn out, but we still had Christmas to do! Bless HIS heart!

He's got to go back to work bright and early tomorrow too!

...Part 2

Here are some pictures of what happened AFTER Mark got home from working on Christmas Day!!