Saturday, January 9, 2010

Happy Birthday Daddy!



Today is Daddy's 36th Birthday! Annabelle & I made a homemade coconut cream pie yesterday for Daddy's Birthday since that is his favorite. We're going to grill a giant steak for Daddy tonight and have a Birthday dinner celebration.

Thank you Daddy for being such a terrific Daddy & Husband. We love you & appreciate all you do for our family! Happy Birthday to you!

Matching PJ's


Lisa sent me this pic of Annabelle & I wearing our matching PJ's on Christmas morning. Thanks Lisa!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

2010 - What will the New Year Bring?

Ahhh, what will 2010 bring? We're hoping for the best this year but we are definitely already blessed with what we have. 2009 brought a lot of change for us, a new home, new city, lots of change in our lives. But as they say, change makes us grow & learn. So in 2010 we will continue to grow & learn! Lots of love to our family & friends out there. We wish you all the best in 2010!

And Pico Joins the Family




For months and months we've been promising to get Annabelle another pet. Each week when we head to Petsmart to pick up a 50 lb. sack of cat litter for our lazy, grumpy, continually puking 10 year old cat that will probably live to be 150 we peruse the "adopt a cat" section of the store and look at all the other "cool" cats and check out the cute cuddly puppies that the local shelter has in little cages at the front of the store knowing we will probably have grumpy old Walter forever. We walk through the tanks full of fish, crabs & frogs and promise each time that Annabelle will get a new pet "soon". Well, we decided it was time to buy a fish since grouchy old Walter won't let anyone pet, play or touch him (he's a real jerk most of the time but we continue to put up with him, guess we're true "animal lovers"). So, we bought Annabelle a Beta fish and she named him "Pico de Gallo" or "Pico". So far she's been feeding him and taking care of him, even when she fell off her little tikes chair tonight while looking at him and almost knocked out her front teeth.

White Christmas - Just What We Wanted!




I guess you get what you ask for. We wanted a white Christmas and we sure got it! We went from warm, sunny Southern Texas to cold, cold, snowy, snowy Kansas! Check out the difference...amazing! (thanks for playing in the snow with Annabelle Sitti!)

Santa Brought Daddy A Box of ROCKS!

Yes, when you are naughty Santa DOES deliver a box of rocks. (Look at Annabelle's expression!)

More pics from Christmas




Yes, it was a good Christmas at Sitti & Papa's!

After spending Christmas at Sitti & Papa's we headed out to the "big city" of Roxbury, KS to visit Great Grandma Writer & the rest of the Writer family. We were back on the road again (thanks for letting us use your car Papa!). We were so glad to get to see the Writer family again (I didn't take any pics to post, sorry!) It was so good to see our families again (although it did involve a lot of traveling time!)