Brian and Joelle

Are we seriously at the end of the year right now?  What the heck happened?  Did I just come out of a coma or something?  How is it that we’re already putting our Christmas tree up and decorating the house?  How is it that I’ve already devoured all of the Thanksgiving leftovers?  How is it that the Chargers suck this year (I know…that answer is quite obvious).  Is anybody else wondering how we got here so quickly?

Yes….it has been a long while since we’ve blogged (bragged?) about our little monster on the internet…but have no fear….the Christmas edition is here!  She is equipped with 8 teeth now, the ability to crawl at incredibly normal speeds, and a supernatural gift of reaching into octaves that Mariah Carey could only dream of. Things are changing so rapidly with her that it is hard to keep up…much less soak it in and enjoy it.  Her little outfits are so cute and tiny.  Her little giggle….holy moly…her giggles are absolutely PRICELESS.  She is a really good eater too….she’ll mow down her breakfast in less than 5 minutes and it’s not a trivial amount.  We tried to give her turkey on Thanksgiving but she didn’t take to it that well.  She does manage to grab her little puffed rice snacks and feed herself which is kinda cool….but you can’t really leave anything laying around that you don’t won’t slobbered or chewed on.

So, we got our tree up last weekend in record time.  Not without difficulty though.  Joelle had to have this 8′ noble fir tree because it was apparently mismarked as a 5′ to 6′ at our favorite Home Depot around the corner.  So, I did my best to man-handle that bad boy into the house and get it set plumb.  Getting it set plumb was the hard part as it was so stinkin heavy that I couldn’t just dead lift it straight up and jamb it down into the stand (of which is undersized for this size tree anyway.)  Keep in mind that it is set on top of a 2′ high wood box so Emmelia can’t grab it.  So then it kept tilting over and came close to crashing down a couple times….but I prevailed.  It is in….and we got a beautiful tree at a great price.

We are excited this year to have Joelle’s brother Dante and his family stay with us for awhile during Christmas.  We don’t see them but maybe once a year and our little niece Sierra is getting so big….and they’ll get to meet Emmelia for the first time

The pics below are of random events…beach day….Thnaksgiving, Joelle’s birthday, my dad’s birthday, decorating the Christmas tree, Emmelia in a pink elephant pool that I got on Amazon.com for $5….enjoy.

Merry Christmas to you….and thank the good Lord for giving us a sure hope and an incorruptible inheritance through our Saviour Jesus.