Some December Highlights

We are off to find our Christmas tree!

There it is!

Flashing a grin at the Laurie Berkner concert. Dressed like Jack.

Showing his own style in front of the tree. Two hats and 3D glasses.

This is a ceramic tree my Grandma had up each year that I can remember. Now it serves as a night light in Davey's room. I actually don't know if we will be able to take it down in a few weeks...he loves it that much!

Screaming on Santa's lap during the Watterson family Christmas.

I have neglected to keep you in the loop with the happenings at the Shaw house. Well, here you go! I am happy to be on a LONG Christmas break from school. That last week of schol was nuts! Tuesday we had an early release because of snow and then no school on Wednesday because of ice! Then we went back for 2 days...and we don't even have finals...so there was no need for students to concentrate on anything! But I survived!

Since then I have been enjoying helping with the winter guard. The girls who were freshmen my first year of helping are now seniors! I feel old! Davey comes to practice with me sometimes and everyone loves it. I have to get a picture soon of what he did last night...He watched a run through of the show so far and then picked up a sabre...and spun around with it. It was adorable!

Josh and I have been dealing with a few health problems recently. He got some blood work done as a baseline. He has a family history of diabetes so the doctor was hoping to have a set of numbers to compare to. Well, they also found that his triglyceride number was through the roof! This was probably a reaction to some medicine that he was on and possible because of the early stage of diabetes. So we have him on fish oil and flax seed to try to get everything back on track. He goes to the diabetes specialist in January along with more blood work. I also had blood work done and found out that I am just a little under the normal amount of htyroid hormone. So now I take a little pill to take care of that. I go back in March to see if everything is back in order.

Josh and I are gearing up to fly out of here Sunday and heading to Jekyll Island, GA for some R&R. Davey gets to stay with Grandma and Grandpa in Scottsburg. We will be back on New Year's Day. I will try to pist some pictures of Christmas day before we leave. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

I Love the Holidays!

Somehow, Josh, Davey and myself survived another Thanksgiving! So much food, fun, and family you think we would have exploded! It was wonderful. Davey and I tried to get as much play and snuggle time in as possible. Without forgetting to find some deals at Kohl's! Of course, today I paid for the fact that I didn't do any grading over break and had to stay late in order to update my online gradebook for midterms to come out Friday. But who am I kidding...it was worth it!

I am not bragging on my son, but I think he is advanced for his age! (Don't worry, I know all moms say that!) He can now tell me all the animal songs in his favorite book and can correctly point to the animal of my choice on the last page of Brown Bear, Brown Bear! I know, he gets it from my side! While his number of words may not be up to my liking quite yet, he understands most of what is going on and responses as best as her can with his limited vocabulary. He is pretty amazing.

A big thanks to my sister Shannon and her fam who was thinking of Davey on their latest trip to Disney World. They brought back a Davey Crocket hat! Of course, Davey would rather carry it around by the tail and smooth his ear with it (he is a tactile kid!). Bubbles the cat likes to pretend it is a real racoon and attack it!

Before with lovely aqua particle board on the walls (there used to be aqua shag carpet, too!)

Josh and my FIL after pulling off all the plaster and lath...similar to the nursery project! Yuck! But notice the venting skylight! WOW!

Here are some pictures of Josh's latest disaster...I mean home improvement project...just joking babe! It used to be my bathroom upstairs...and one day (soon I hope) it will once again be a bathroom. Good bye dirty tub and toilet no matter what I clean you with! My new fixtures are just waiting for the plumbing to be changed so they will fit. Just you wait until my man is finished! It will be amazing! (But for now it is a total eye-sore and annoying to have to walk downstairs in the middle of the night!)