It's almost 2009

Solomon longing to pull off some ornaments.

Zoe posing.. where on earth could she have learned this vital skill?

Solomon in his monkey PJs.

So Christmas has come and gone. We did xmas eve with my parents and then drove up to Lawrence on Christmas day to hang out with Alex's family. It was nice. We now have more toys than ever in our house. It's just a constant mess. I think solomon's favorite toys include Elmo's kitchen, pressing the button on the Crayola marker thing, the piano and the Thomas the Train car thing. However, he plays with almost everything for at least a few minutes a day. Some of the toys are a bit old for him right now, but that's okay. The funniest moment of Christmas day was when I opened a card from Alex's mom that contained money for his college fund. After opening the envelope, I noticed a postcard which had two women talking on the phone pictured. I thought that was odd.. so I turned it over and noticed that she had accidentally placed a "remember your pap smear" card/cervical cancer awareness card in the Christmas card. I announced this and everyone started cracking up. It's just an odd thing to find in a little boy's christmas card. She had also patched up a few holes in some of the Christmas wrapping with return address labels. Hmmm.. still haven't figured that one out completely. I always tell people that this will all be in a book someday. While in Lawrence, we went to see a house where the family had computerized their Christmas lights to match a series of songs. YOu could tune your radio into a station and listen. It took a while, but it was pretty cool. I told Alex to get started on ideas for our display for next year! Then, we laughed, knowing he loathes putting up lights so it's doubtful that it will ever happen.

I got lots of good clothes from my family and a few fun electronics from Alex.. such as an iPhone and a bluetooth headset. He also got me the Roomba vacuum cleaner thing. I love it. I watched it for about 30 minutes the first time it ran. Pretty cool.

My next mission is to get all of the Christmas decor down. I usually leave it up until Jan. 1, but I'm sick of it so I think it will come down tomorrow.

I'm listening to the KU game b/c it's on ESPNU, a channel we don't have.. bummer.

Tomorrow, is NYE. We have some plans for early on, but i'm sure we'll end up at our bar by midnight. Have New Year everyone!

Busy Times

So, I feel like I've been everywhere, but really haven't been any farther away than Dallas. It's just been a really busy couple of weeks between work and Thanksgiving and Solomon and all kinds of other stuff. For instance, we are finalizing our purchase of Kirby's Beer Store, a local bar, this week, so Alex has been really stressed out with all of that stuff. We did manage to find time this weekend to get our holiday picture of Solomon taken. I was also able to get the holiday decorations up last weekend.

This weekend was fun. I went to my friend Jackie's wedding reception. She was married in September in Maui, and another friend of hers held a party for them here. Today, I went on a run in the morning and this afternoon, we went to Brooke and Andy's house for pizza. There were tons of kids there which is always crazy but fun.

Speaking of kids, I have posted a few pictures of my kiddo, Solomon: http://www.haverhillstudios.com/gallery/Solomon-at-14-months

Here's a cute little video of Solomon saying "mommy". :)