another of Hudson's favorite presents

The HUGE basketball Daddy got him! When he opened it he said "BIG ball. Shoot ball."

The conversation he had with Jamie this morning:

"Need to sit right here."
"Where's blanket?"
Need mote (remote)."
"Watch WordWorld."

computer problems

Note to self: when the warning message keeps flashing up saying you are almost out of disk space - do something about it!

I know I am slacking on getting all the Christmas videos and pics posted but here's my problem: my computer is completely out of memory or RAM or space on the hard drive or whatever it is and I can't load any more pics onto it till I get it fixed or get a new computer - we'll see which way we end up going. Sometimes I can get the pics uploaded but I can't do videos at all any more. It erased all my videos of us looking at Christmas lights the other night which I was very upset about. (Papa Cecil- you would be proud to know that every house we saw with lots of lights on it, Hudson would say "Papa's house?")

Now I can barely even get on the internet because there isn't any memory left! I can't get email any more either - they all just come in blank - no subject, no sender or body text! So if you have emailed me in the last few days I apologize - I am not ignoring you on purpose! Hope to get it fixed tomorrow and be back up soon - if not, I'll try to get to my mom's and get some more stuff posted. So in the meantime, please bear with us!

(one of) Hudson's favorite Christmas presents

And it wasn't even for him...I have a feeling this will be one of our main attractions come spring going down the driveway!

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Merry Christmas Papa and Binga!

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Christmas cookies

Christmas isn't complete without sugar cookies! Garret and Hudson got to decorate this year. Unfortunately we didn't have any Christmas cookie cutters so we improvised - with "angel wings", poinsettia flowers, and ornaments - and a few hearts too. The boys LOVED the sprinkles - poor Lesie had a lot of sprinkles on the floor when we left!

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Go Browns!!

Jamie and his friend, Doug, went to the Chiefs vs. Browns game on Sunday (the tickets I bought him for Christmas). The game was at noon and they left our house at 5 am to get there early and tailgate! They took eggs, bacon and hashbrowns and had breakfast when they first got there. Then they watched the game and then grilled hamburgers as they waited for the parking lot to clear out. I was worried they would be the only ones in the parking lot at 8 am (when it opened) but there was already a long line and lots of people out tailgating when they got in. They had to pay $22 for parking!!! The Browns won the game - which Jamie was thrilled about. He wore every article of Browns clothing he owns (it was cold!) and sat in a section with only Chiefs fans. He cheered everytime the Browns did something good and the people behind him booed him the whole game! He said it was awesome!

Jamie and Doug had a bet going that whichever team won the other person had to put on their team gear for a picture. So Doug had to put on Jamie's Browns jersey after the game.

Bowling

Hudson recently started throwing balls at the walls downstairs so that he could then yell "boom" when they hit. So I came up with a different idea to try to save my walls from dents and scratches - bowling. Although I said he wasn't allowed to bowl again till he was 16 - this version is pretty safe. He enjoyed it, but it quickly became more fun to stack the cups then to knock them over.

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