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My hard working hubby & his hard working friend spent the day hanging up 2 new lights inside our house & 1 light on the front porch & a new ceiling fan on our patio! Here's a photo of our new dining room light... isn't it pretty! Meanwhile, wish me look at trying to sell the old one on Craig's list!

The relationship between a mother & son is SO sweet! Everything my son does is just so adorable to me! One of the adorable things he does is crawling up to the front of the car & pretending to be a driver. He's such a cutie pie!!!

I can't believe how much she has changed! I love her SO much!!!

This is one of my favorite Christmases ever (so far). My daughter is finally old enough to be so excited about Santa & Jesus' birthday & the presents she will get. That makes it so much fun! She's already learned how to sing Jingle Bells & You better watch out! The other night we watched Polar Express & she loved it. However, it was past her bedtime & she fell asleep half way through it.

My husband & I watched an interesting ABC show about kids who are adopted from Russia. An unbelievable number of the kids end up with various behavior problems & are so uncontrollable that sometimes the parents wish to UNadopt them! As an adopted child, it made me so sad to hear that some of the parents actually treated the whole adoption process kind of like a transaction; one that could be refunded as needed. Anyways, the program made me even more thankful to my two parents for adopting me & never giving up on me even on my worse days. They gave me a great life & I am so thankful to them for that!

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My mother in law requested a photo of both kids to include in her Christmas card. After about 20 not so great photos of two silly kids, my husband & I got desperate! We ran & got some cookies out of the pantry, held them above the camera & said "if you smile, we'll give you a cookie". It worked! Let's see if you can figure out which picture we sent to Grandma.