Happy New Year!!!

Well one of our goals this month and for the new year is to be more organized. We've been decluttering, throwing away, shelving, re-shelving and labeling - Glenn's loving it. His favorite part was using a Haley's Hint to vacuum shrink extra pillows and bedding.

WARNING: If you've never seen how excited Glenn gets about organizing and throwing things away (or possibly witnessed him hearing a funny on my mom), the second image may be shocking.

Before

The fun part - and he enjoyed it just as much every time! After they
ran out of stuff to shrink, they took some completed ones apart and redid them!

After

Merry Christmas!!!

We had a great Christmas visit with family in Tennessee - lots of fun games, good food, hanging out with everyone, visiting Graceland, hunting, good books, balloons, and old-school nintendo (old Mario is hands down better than the new Mario Kart type stuff that Parker plays). Here are a few pictures from the trip -

Parker and Lindsey on Christmas Eve with their stockings
hung by the chimney with...twist ties

G, MG, Parker and Lindsey

Dad (PaPa), Mom (Granny), MG, Rachel and Andy

Grandma and Parker

Parker and Uncle Winston

The sibs - MG, Andy and Rachel

Lindsey and G (aka Daddy, aka The Sleep Machine)

Parker and PaPa showing off Parker's winning safety
poster entry in the calendar - he's August!

Lindsey and PaPa playing

Parker and PaPa squirrel hunting with slingshots

Quick updates for December

• Lindsey is crawling like a little speed demon and following us (and Goosey) around the house
• Lindsey started carrots yesterday
• Parker is playing Wii as much as we will let him and thinks the carrots taste awful
• Glenn's beard is so bushy it reminds me of mountain men you see in movies
• I am going back to work next week (just for 4 hours)
• Nanny search is complete - we offered job today and she accepted! Now...lots of paperwork
  

Lindsey is 7 months old

Lindsey celebrated her 7 month milestone by chowing down on her first solid food. Really it was just breast milk with a little rice cereal mixed in, but she got to eat it with a spoon!!!