Our new pet

Meet Snowflake. She is a cute, white poodle. Courtney adopted her this weekend thanks to an enabler friend of mine (thanks Lori). Anyway, evidently this is the latest craze. These little stuffed animals called Webkinz. You purchase one of these adorable pets at your local Hallmark store or gift shop for a mire $10. Each animal comes with a special code. You go to webkinz.com and registure your pet. Magically it comes alive on your computer! You are then sucked into the webkinz world. In this world, your pet is given a room. You must then purchase items for this room and decorate it. You can buy floors, walls, furniture and accessories. You must also purchase food, toys, games and clothing for your pet to keep her happy and healthy. You purchase all these things with kinzkash which you earn by playing games, answering trivia and performing a job everyday.

I wasn't too thrilled about this at first but I can't let Courtney feel left out, can I? But it is actually pretty fun! Courtney loves it! Oh, another thing. Once your friends all get their pets online, you can talk to each other and have your pets play with each other online. We haven't tried this feature yet but I'm sure it won't be long.

We'll see how long this trend lasts!

Movin' Slow

Courtney, Mark and I are moving slow this morning. Mark got home very late last night from a work trip filled with mishapes, such as delayed flights, bumped hotel reservations and car rental issues.

Courtney and I are sluggish because we went roller skating with the Girl Scout troop last night. A new skating rink opened here so we thought we would try it out. Courtney finally got the hang of it 15 minutes before we had to leave. But she is in no hurry to go back! Her bottom is sore from all the falls. Kirsten really enjoyed it and can't wait to go again. Kirsten and I had a nasty fall at one point. I have a bad bruise on my knee, one elbow is pretty sore and I have a carpet burn on my hand from the carpeted wall we ran into. She bumped her head on the floor and it started to swell last night but this morning there is just a little red spot. She says it hurts when she touches it. My body has that general ache all over from trying to hold them both up all night! Jessica came in town and met us there. She was a great help with Kirsten while I tried to get Courtney on her wheeled feet! I wouldn't be able to walk today if I had had to drag them both around all night! I took some pictures but with my film camera so I can't share them yet. I didn't want to risk a fall with my digital!

Overall it was a good experience. I enjoyed sharing something from my childhood and they were impressed with my skating ability (which has suffered greatly from lack of use). We might have to get us all a pair of skates now!

A new adjective

Sorry I haven't updated this blog in so long and sorry to start back with a complaint! My new adjective isn't really new. The way I am going to choose to use it is new. "Comcastic" now means the opposite of it's intended meaning. To me, "Comcastic" equals crap, unreliable, horrible, frustrating, you get the idea. A few months ago, we down graded to have the limited basic service with the family tier. This required Comcast to come out and install one of their oh-so-attractive boxes to our TV. Ever since then, our service has been anything BUT "Comcastic" (their definition).

This is also my new swear word. I don't say ugly words but do, occasionally feel the anger and frustation that causes some people to throw out the explitives. So instead of saying, "That really 'stinks' (our whatever is your choice word)! I will now say, "That is really Comcastic !", in a sarcastic tone of course.

So if you hear this coming from me, you'll know what I mean!

Birthday #3!

Our silly girl is now 3! It seems as though time has flown and then it seems like she has been in our life always! She is our comic relief and our cuddle bug. Her loving spirit always makes us smile.

I think the party was a success. I made the mistake of having it at 2:00. Kirsten was not in the best of moods. Afternoons are not her best time. She is just about over taking a nap everyday but her body still needs it! She konked out at 6:00 after everyone left and slept until 8:00 the next morning!

If you will notice on the cake, the icing is a bit messed up where the candle is. Kirsten couldn't wait until cake time to stick her fingers in and give it a taste! So that is the spot the candle got to be!

It's Christmas!

This is what we heard shouted at 7:15 am this morning! They were so excited! Who isn't, especially at this age?

Santa brought Courtney a play kitchen, Kirsten got Woody, Jesse and Buzz and Jessica got season 2 of Gray's Anatomy. Santa also brought a play store for Courtney and Kirsten. They have played non-stop!

Once we got dressed, we headed over to my Dad's for more presents. The girls got clothes, movies and some toys. Then is was on to my Grandmother's for the feast! It wouldn't be Christmas without going to Grandma's for some good eatin' but it sure was crowded this year! My grandmother would never hear of doing this somewhere else. The crowd actually is part of what makes it "Christmas at Grandma's". As long as I can remember, that is the way it has been.

Christmas Eve

This was a relaxing day, at least it started out that way! We went to church, came home and pretty much did alot of nothing! I made a last run to Belk and Wal-Mart. Jessica had to work in the afternoon. We visited Mark's mom at the hospital and his Grandmother at her house. Once we got home, I gave the girls a bath and put them in their Christmas pjs. Once Jessica got home Mark read the Christmas story from Luke 2. Then us girls painted our toenails red! I think we'll do this every year. Then we attempted to get everyone asleep. Two certain little people did not like this idea and it was close to midnight before all were peacefully asleep!

Let the festivities begin!

Our official Christmas activities began on Saturday. Jessica was the best elf and baked some yummy desserts for us to take to Stacy and Tracy's house. Here is Kirsten licking the spoon (it is just melted chocolate!) Then it was off to Murfreesboro for some good food and family fun. It wasn't as festive as usual because Mark's mom is in the hospital so they weren't there.
We did have a special visitor - Santa! He brought small gifts for the kids. Jessica got a CD, Courtney got the Junie B. Jones Christmas book, and Kirsten got a tool set, which was a big hit!

This sums it up!

The past few days have been a whirlwind! But I think the worst is over. Last night was our girl scout Christmas party and the Christmas party for the ladies at my church. Mark took the girls to the scout things and I went to church. Since I am the head of our ladies group and on the decorating committee at church, it is my job to decorate for the party. That is why I've been in a whirlwind!
Evidently, my business has rubbed off on Kirsten. This is her asleep on the arm of the couch. She goes until she drops! Yesterday when I picked her up from Mother's day out, her teacher told me that Kirsten had said she was exhausted a few times that day! I wonder where she learned that word?
I am going to try and make the rest of the month calm, if I can!

Trimming the tree

We actually got our decorations up Thanksgiving weekend. This has never happened! We're keeping it simple this year. The tree, the stockings and the nativity are pretty much it.

Photo shoot adventure

The day before Thanksgiving, we meet Mark's brother and his family at the Opryland Hotel to try and get a photo for the grandparents and for the Christmas card. With three small kids and two not-so-excited husbands, it was not an easy task! I think we might make this a tradition though! It felt good to get a card photo so early and seeing the decorations put me in the mood for the holidays.

Pre Halloween fun

The Webb family had a Halloween party Saturday night. We all dressed up. Yes, all of us! It was harder than you would think to get us old people in costume. But it was fun and worth it!

More

The Photography fairies were smiling again!

We had a quick photo shoot at my aunt's house. She has great leaves!

Pondering

I started a new Bible study this week. Not surprising it is by Beth Moore. She has started a new series called The Personal Reflection Series. This one is based on her study of David. Each day is short, which I thought was good when I bought it but now that I've started it, I wish they were longer! At the end of each day she has a page titled, "Praying God's Word Today". She has this great concept of taking a verse and turning it into a prayer.

Here is the one for yesterday:

Father, thank You for the assurance that You are always at work in my life. Help me to see that to follow You never means to throw away who You made me to be. For I am Your creation-created in Christ Jesus for good works, which You have prepared ahead of time so that I should walk in them (Eph. 2:10).

This is really speaking to me. I just need to know exactly what those "good works" are! But it is reassuring to know that what I have gone through and what I will go through is part of His plan and that I will be prepared for whatever He needs me to do.

Posers

I told the kids to jump on these rocks and they posed themselves!

Sometimes you get lucky

Build A Bear

Here is our girls and our nephew after our trip to Build A Bear! They had a great time!

Finally

For the two people who actually read this blog, I'm giving an update of sorts!

Nothing exciting has been going on in our life so I'll share some photos from the last few weeks.

How does someone fall asleep like this?! Yes, she is totally zonked out here! I have several photos of my children asleep, some in very weird positions. I'm thinking of doing a mini album of just those "sleeping" photos. What would I call it?

A Day at the Park

After a weekend of stormy weather, we had a perfect Sunday! After church we all meet at the park for our annual church picnic. Everyone brings food, we set it out buffet style and dig in! It was some good eatin'!

Then the girls played for a while on the playground equipment. We love this time of year, weather wise. Good times!

Our New Boys

We experienced some temporary insanity this weekend. We have been talking about getting a dog for months. So recently, Mark started searching the local shelters on the internet. The rescue shelter in Lebanon has some Beagle puppies, so we went to look at them. When we got there, we were greeted at the gate by these two cuties. So, we looked at the puppies (who were very cute BTW!) and then we played with these two for a while. They are brothers who are a year old. So they shouldn't get any bigger. The rescue wanted to keep them together because they play so well together. We looked at the shelters in Hendersonville but nothing spoke to us like these two did. The solid black one (on the right) is Rufus and the one with the white spot is Zeke.

They are very playful and loving! They are house trained, don't bark and love to be snuggled. The girls are excited, we'll see how long that lasts!