Clean Refrigerator

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 The only problem with a cleaned out refrigerator is that it makes it look like it's grocery shopping time!

Sick Josiah & Sweet Caleb

Josiah has been a little puny this week, and the other day I found that the boys had crawled in here all by themselves.  Josiah is in a sad little ball, and Caleb is just keeping him company.  They stayed in here for an hour!

Couch!

Our couches are the only furniture that we've bought new over the course of our many years of marriage, so we were disappointed when they started looking a little old.  Downright disgusting is more like it.  That's the third hole that's appeared in this cushion in the last month.  And those stains are mostly dribbles of watery apple juice.  Who knew they could look so yucky?  Anyways, we'd about given up on these old couches. 

 But today Jennifer and I decided to take action.  We took off the covers and I sewed the hole shut from the inside.

 Then washed with Oxi-Clean.

 To be honest, Jenn didn't do a lick of work except look cute for the camera and keep me entertained.  But I'm glad she was spending her snow-afternoon with us! 

 Finished product!

Christmas Gifts

 Instead of Christmas cards this year, we did Christmas candy for all our friends at church.

We have these nifty mailboxes there and it was fun to stuff them in the boxes. 

But it was a little sad to see the lid pop off one as a lady took it out of her box and Altoids scattered everywhere! 

I painted baby food jar lids red and filled them with pink, white, and green layers of Altoids left over from Chris's Ampoids business.  If you ever have a need for an Altoid, let us know!

Christmas Haircut

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Rice Writing

We tried a fun new activity today.  I saw this idea using rice or flour, but we went with rice because it seemed a bit easier to clean up at the end!  Josiah is not much for coloring or drawing, but he loved this, and he was great at making letters.  He used both hands and multiple fingers for writing.  Caleb sat in my lap and ate raw rice. 

Christmas Memories

 Josiah and Caleb are loving this drum!  Their favorite way to play is to wear it upside down on their heads like a space helmet.

 Here are my Grandmother & Grandaddy dancing after all the presents were opened.  How cute are they!

And here's Caleb, wearing both the boys' new hats.