A Date With Alyssa

Alyssa, the goddess of fun and entertainment, gave us a ring tonight and asked it she could take our kids to the movies. What do you think we said?! COME ON!!

Alyssa is one of our families best friends! Not only is she one of our most trusted baby sitters, she used to be one of the members of our youth group when Tisha and I were the youth leaders at Trinity, and over the years has grown to be one of Tisha's most personal friends!

Once Alyssa showed up in her Mom's SUV, we loaded the kids car seats up and off they went!! The movie they went to see was Alvin and The Chipmunks. The kids had a blast!! Alyssa said that Aidan nearly laughed his head off!!!

Tisha and I went over to Hunan K for some Chinese Food and we talked about her upcoming appointment as the Grand Pubah of the WIC. We then came home and played around on the internet with wikis of all things! We've obviously been parents for too long!!!

One of the funniest things of the night! Tisha had a talk with the kids before they left. She told them that if they had to go to the bathroom, they had better do it before they went to the theater. Aidan apparently took this to heart, because the first thing he said as he flew in the door when they got back was, "I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!" Then all we heard was the bathroom door slam and him doing his business! Talk about obeying his mother!

In the future, we'll write a post about one of the adventures Alyssa had while baby sitting our kids!

Link's First Adventure!!!

The Warriors

Josh and Brianna, two of our neighbors, are spending the night tonight! Their stay started out with a BANG (pun intended), when Josh and Ian combined their inventory of Nerf Guns and staged a valiant battle!!! Well... actually it was boys against girls, but that's fun too! :)

The rest of the night promises to be fun as well!! Josh brought The Santa Clause 3 with him, and Tisha just finished making cookies!

Over the next few days, we'll share some pictures of Tyler O'Donnell's Birthday Party and a few short videos Ian has been working on with his new digital camera! Stay tuned!!!

Aidan's Best Christmas Reaction!

There were other fun clips of both Ian and Mia, but that was on Christmas morning and it was dark; so the video quality was poor. Anyway, you'll all enjoy this!

Heeee's Baaacckkk!!!!!!

Courtland!!!!!!

A Great Lord's Day

Today was a wonderful day!!!!

Our Sunday School Class ate breakfast together and had a fellowship time to celebrate Christmas. Todd Pearson and his family were back for a visit from North Carolina, so we had the chance to see their newest addition. And Pastor Ray had a great message for us this morning from Isaiah 9.

After church, the O'Donnell Clan met up with the West's and we all went to visit Tisha's Aunt Lola. She is 98 years old!! She's pretty sick, but you've never met a woman with a better attitude, or more vim and vigger, than she!!!! There was a large group over a Darren's house to usher in what MAY be Lola's last Christmas on this side of eternity! She enjoyed the children, and Mickey sang her solo for her from this years cantata at Roebuck.

We finished off the night over at Roebuck for their annual cantata. The Roebuck Choir did a terrific job, and Mickey sang a beautiful solo. Without a doubt though, Ray Bobo's narration added a great punch to the performance! I could tell that he worked many an hour on it to get it just right!!! He was soooo much fun to listen to and watch! I've never seen anyone get "into" things like he does! It's all or nothing for him!!! We also got to visit with Eric and Brandy Lindsey and finally had the chance to buy a couple of their CD's. We listened to their newest one on the way home, it was great!!!

Today was the real start of Christmas for me! It's been a little hard to get into the spirit of Christmas this year, but after today, I'm rearing to go!!!!

PS - I "DID" have a video of Mickey singing her solo, but like a dummy, I accidentally uploaded it to my Jim Sharp blog and then lost it when I tried to transfer it. By that time I had already deleted it off my camcorder. Yet another lesson learned!! Don't delete things until you're sure you're done with them!!!!!! Sorry everyone!!!!! Of course Mickey is breathing a sigh of relief right now! ;)

A Quick Test

Just trying out a video! I finally got my camcorder to import to my laptop, but I still can't get Movie Maker to recognize the avi files.