Happy New Year

Wishing you a Happy New Year

For New Year's Eve we went to Adam and Deanne's house. John and Jennifer from KC joined us along with Jeff (Adam's brother) and Todd. We missed Frank and Amy not being there. This year things did not get too out of hand. We had a great time visiting, playing games etc. Unfortunately I didn't take too many pictures. Here are the few I took.

Adam explaining how to play Pit.

Yes, once we started the game all these drinks were removed from the table.

Sorry, John I never did give you any words of wisdom for 2009.

Okay, Jeff looks totally blitzed here but he really wasn't.

Thank you Adam and Deanne for being such wonderful hosts. Thanks for the food, bedroom to sleep, and Adam, for making a great breakfast this morning. It was the best B & B we have stayed at. A great way to start the new year with such good friends.

The last Christmas gathering

On Tuesday Russ went to his mother's house in Garnett to celebrate Christmas with her. He took Kassade and Keyton and met up with his brother, Mike and his family.

This year us kids went together to get a gift for Sherrie. We got her a flat screen computer monitor. I think she was very surprised from what Russ had said.

Thank you Sherrie for your gifts to London and I. I am sorry that we could not make it this year. It sounded like everyone had a great time.

To the cousins -

This one goes out to all my Lehman Cousins

Sandi, Sherrie, Glenda, Missy, Galen

Me, Richard, Kevin, Jeff, Ron

Kerrie, Jerry, Wendy and Christy

tagged

Amy J tagged me on December 13th - I almost forgot but here it goes . . . .

His full name? Charles Russell Thomas - my brother once told me not to married a guy with 3 first names because serial killers have a high tendency to have 3 first names.

How long married? Five years in September - we actually got married on the 13th - has been a very lucky number for us.

How long we dated? 14 months officially - but the first 2 months we dated we did not tell anyone for many different reasons (our close friends all know why - they are called ex-spouses). Those first 2 months were really really fun sneaking around and enjoying no complications in life.

How old is he? 39 - He will turn the big 40 in April - I am 8 months older.

Smart? Depends on what were are talking about. He does know a lot of trivia that some day may be useful.

Laundry? He does it maybe 1% of the time. He will bring down his laundry and take it up again when finished (sometimes it may sit on the table for a week) that should count for something.

Paying Bills? He does - I am not very good about getting them paid on time.

Who sleeps on the right side? I do, because the left side is closest to the door. I have been told that the husband is supposed to sleep on the side closest to the door in case some one breaks into the house - he can protect you better.

Mows the lawn? - What? we have a mower?

First to admit being wrong? We are both pretty good about this.

Who kissed first? Oh Russ definitely kissed me first. But I will share a secret that he will probably kill me for telling - He actually asked me if he could kiss me! A true gentleman.

Who wears the pants? My man wears the pants - head of the household but we do have a 50/50 relationship dealing with issues and decisions. He is the leader and guides our family.

I am going to tag my cousin Jill, and Meg and Pam (can I tag them again since those two haven't responded to Amy's tag yet?). I also haven't figured out yet how to link their names so you can click on them.

Is there a book called blogs for dummies???

To My Husband . . .

YOU are my hero today!

Look what he is doing! Can he fix it? YES he can!

Now, I am just getting started at 6 PM - this is part of the laundry to do. I never thought I would be happy to do laundry.

A Much Better Day

On Saturday we got together with Russ' sister and brother and their families for Christmas. Here is a picture of the nieces and nephews. I took about 10 pictures and this is the best one - it seemed in every picture someone was doing something silly.

- waiting to open presents -

Uncle John helping London into the box.

Another KC Chief item enters into our household.

Getting lots of LOVE from aunt Shanna.

This is Boss - it took a while but London finally warmed up to him. She got very brave and was playing with his tail.

Rock Band with the Wii - Little Cody and Bobby got this for Christmas. We were at their house till 11:30 or so playing - the big boys were playing. Russ - drums, John - guitar, and Mike was singing. Talk about being Wii hogs. Kassade and I just wanted some sleep.

Thanks Mike and Becca for opening your house to us and letting us stay so late and maybe someday little Cody we can live together.