Happy New Year:)

Woke up to a light dusting of snow this morning, which will apparently turn to rain later, and then instead of magical powdery stuff, I guess it will just be....yuck.

Thanks to a gift certificate:) I finally got one of the books that has been on my Amazon.com wishlist for a couple of years

Mysteries and Histories: Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Wes Oleszewski

having grown up in Michigan, and also living there the year the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, which I've never forgotten....I've just always been interested since then in stories about shipping on the Lakes....yes, I am That much of a geek :)

My book came yesterday, Woo Hoo! and I'm almost done with it.

of course, at the same time, I'm still reading The Sandbox , which has been really cool......a lot of the blog posts that are featured in there I remember reading 'back in the day', and it's like revisiting old friends.

Well, mainly just wanted to wish everyone "Happy New Year"

we have felt so very blessed in 2009, and want to wish everyone a safe, happy, healthy and blessed 2010!



Christian Glitter by www.christianglitter.com

The Balloon lives on.......

Remember the Balloon I bought for Tony back in October while he was recovering from his heart surgery?
Well, it's still hanging around.....(although the cats have destroyed the ribbon that was attached to it.)
It's been floating in a corner of our living room all these months, until the other day I noticed that, as more helium has been slowly leaking out of it, it was starting to drift across the room towards the Christmas tree.

So, I moved it to our bedroom.....forgetting that we run a fan at night.

The result of that was at about 3 a.m. the next morning? we were suddenly awakened by the noise of something Caught in the fan....and when Tony yelled 'what the heck?!' and threw his arm out as he sat up?

His arm hit the balloon and it started singing "Don't worry,Be Happy"

Heck of a way to wake up........still Laughing :)

Christmas pics

Posted our Christmas pics on both MySpace and Facebook, for those of you who are on neither of those sites? the pictures can be found on Facebook Here

Merry Christmas!

Let it snow,let it snow!

Official total says 16 inches, with 1-3 more possible (its still snowing, 24 hours+ since it started!)

The last December choir concert

April with her cousin at her last Holiday concert for the choir......the years go by so swiftly!!

Christmas cookies are done:)

Tony spent the last week doing his Christmas baking :) and here's April helping him decorate the sugar cookies the other day..........

as Homer Simpson might say?.....Mmmm......sugar cookies....oatmeal cookies....peanut butter balls.....-potato candy.....fudge.....chocolate chip and M & M cookies.......

First snow of this season:)

We were walloped today with the first snow of the season, and Tony got this great pic of the front of the townhouse, thought I'd share:)