when your mom and dad won't read you a story....

go have the "buppa" (puppy) read it to you!

he is a much better reader because he doesn't turn the pages too fast like mom and dad do.

plus he makes a good pillow!

christmas with the k's

this year, it was the k's turn to have us for christmas.
the mr. had to work christmas eve, so we were going to leave after he got off work at 5.
it was snowing and the roads were getting bad, so we ended up leaving around 1:00 instead.
it snowed pretty much the whole way there and at some points, we could barely see the road.
we made it okay though and had lots of fun while we were there!

every year growing up, we would get pajamas from grandma m and open them christmas eve after we would read the christmas story so that we would be wearing them christmas morning.
my mom has continued that tradition and these were the cute pajamas b got for her first christmas.
thanks grandma m!

b also got christmas pajamas from grandma k.
the pajamas make b look like a christmas gift.
you can't see it very well in this picture, but the red stripes are like the ribbon on a gift.
m's finger is covering where a bow is on the pajamas.
b was the best christmas gift we got this year!
thanks grandma k for the super cute jammies!

the mr. took this picture of b and i sleeping together.
i love this picture because this is the only time i get to snuggle with her!

b with great-grandma k.
she was soo exhausted in this picture.

us with great-grandpa and great-grandma k

 us the sunday we left to come back home.
i think this is the first family picture we have of all of us together.
sad, huh :(

 oh how i miss rocky.
he's been living with the mr.'s parents the last 7 months.

thanks for letting us spend christmas with you guys!
we had fun!

are they ever going to stop?

i don't know how many of you know about these, but we've been having minor earthquakes in the area since the end of february.

they are slowly increasing in magnitude.

two days ago, we had one with a magnitude of 4.2

yesterday, we had one at a 4.7

the mr. and i were laying in bed talking, and we suddenly felt/heard the eartquake and things falling off of our shelves.

the poor dog was hit by a couple things from off of the entertainment center.

of course, if it weren't for him, those things probably would have been broken.

thanks rocky for saving my things.

we didn't have any damage where we live, but there's quite a few reports of some cracks in ceilings and walls closer to the epicenter.

just for fun, i put on an image from usgs.gov of the earthquakes in the area from last week.

i just hope there isn't a big earthquake when i'm in the hospital!