Christmas Time

Christmas time

Our Christmas Vacation started out in a blizzard driving for 2 hours to get to Scipio and on the other end driving 9 hours to St. George in 5 mph traffic for 3 hours.
The weather was not on our side the crowds were mean and standing everywhere.
But we still had fun and learned a lot of lessons along the way. And we were never so glad to be home. For a more detailed account, go to Indy's blog. She has a more sunny outlook of things, apparently we kept our grumblings to ourselves.

Meet Clark Kent

OK. That's not really Superman, actually it's Danny, disguised by his new glasses.

Danny who initially fretted and was horrified about the prospect of getting specks, handled it in true Severe form by the Face and Embrace mantra expected of all offspring.

Though we left for the doctor with fingernail marks on the wall, by the time Danny finished with the adjustments and realized what could be had, there was no going back.

The helper told Danny that his glasses would take some getting used to and he might get headaches and become dizzy. On the way home Danny kept taking off his glasses. I told him that he needed to keep them on so he could get used to them. He said he was already used to them and he wasn't getting headaches or dizzy, but his throat did hurt a little bit.

Luke was pretty jealous of Danny when he walked in the door and was incredulous at his amazing blue glasses case. He wanted to get glasses so bad. I told him that he only wanted them for the blue case. He said, "No, I want them for my face!"

Next Danny went to school and set up a Glasses/Contact club of which he is the president and has four members. Face it and Embrace it Baby. Face it and Embrace it.

Why won't she smile.

This was a pettiskirt photoshoot for my sister-in-law's website: goldielox-petticoat.blogspot.com. Mary would not smile, nor has she ever. Maybe some day. But anyhow, the pictures were still cute. I am going to be taking photoshop 101. Maybe I can get into Nicole Hill before she moves.

More Luke

This is Luke giving his "Pay-back" sign to Mary.
Then Luke as 'Wild Mountain', the Indian name that Dad gave him. Luke wanted to be 'Fighting Tiger', but I told him that that was the chief's grandson's name and if Luke took that name, it would be all-out war between tribes. He was very concerned about that, but relieved when I told him only Jake, Danny and Dad would have to go to war.

Luke decided to dress up like Frankenstein when he found my boots fit perfectly with his idea of what Frankenstein would be wearing. Then he topped it off with his tattooed forehead.

Yesterday when I was taking Jake to basketball I was talking to Luke about school. Apparently Luke's teacher has been out for months and just today I found out that she will be retiring immediately. I was a little confused about whether or not I should have known this already and asked Luke about his substitute teacher. I asked what her name is and he said, "Bloody Mary". "Bloody Mary?" I asked
"Mrs. Bloody" he clarified.