Christmas Lights Parade

A couple of Sundays ago, we went to the Christmas Lights parade for FHE here in Yakima. This is the first time we have ever been to it. We had a lot of fun and we didn't freeze. There were some cool vehicles all lit up.


This is my favorite picture I took of the night.


Can you tell Jaxon doesn't like his mother to take his picture.


Phebe looking thrilled to be there. At least she lets me take her picture.


I have to say the Coca-Cola truck had the best Christmas lights on it.

Negative Brrr!!!

Just wanted you to know that it is showing a -3 degrees outside right now. Jaxon and I will, definitely, be waiting for the school bus in the car. Hope you have a warmer morning.

Brrr...

This morning we woke up to no heat. Lucky, Brian was home to help figure out why we didn't have any heat. After talking to my Dad, we figured out that we had a frozen pipe line. We had to thaw the pipe, get anti-freeze gel and get the oil flowing again. We thawed the pipe but the furnace would not kick on. So we called our reinforcement, my Poppop. He came over and figured out our problem with in 10 minutes. By pushing the reset button. We had tried pushing a button but it was the wrong one. That's all we needed to do to get heat. So now we can be warm and cozy. If only the temperature was 68 degrees outside instead of the high of 15 like it's going to be tomorrow.

To Forks we will go

I have become a Twilight groupie. I am not as bad as Brian is with his Collective Soul. Last week for Thanksgiving, we went to my brother's house in Port Angeles. Since Forks is an hour a way, we went on a field trip. We didn't get to go on the Twilight tour but we made a few stops. It was raining. I thought Portland got a lot of rain. It doesn't compared to Forks. Forks gets about 116 inches of rain a year, where Portland gets about 25 inches and Yakima gets about 13 inches. I'll take the 13inches any day. My sister in law and I went to see the movie. I think my imagination is a lot better than the movie. I had a problem seeing the actors they picked as the characters they played. But what do I know. I still liked it.

Jaxon's New Pets

Here's Jaxon swimming with his new fish.

For Jaxon's birthday, he got a fish tank. We have been working on it all week. Tonight, we were able to get some fish. More fish to come. There are so many choices. He wants to get kissing fish, neon's, a snail and a plecostomus.

Student of the Month

Last week, Jaxon received the academic Student of the Month award for October. We are so proud of him. This is the picture I got of him. He was embarrassed by his Mom taking pictures of him. So I kissed him in front of his whole class. Now that's embarrassing. We also had his teacher conference on the same day. No problems with Jaxon. His teacher is challenging him and that's what we want. He is doing 4th grade math and reading at a 5th grade level. A story about mister smarty pants. In September, the class was working on subtraction and a girl in the class asked if you could subtract 6-12. Mr. C said you could not. Jaxon raised his hand and said yes you can. The answer is -6. Mr. C said you are right but that's for when you are in 5th grade. Jaxon is now known as Mr. Negative. Pretty soon, Brian and I will have to get a tutor for ourselves to help Jaxon with his homework.

The Scissor ghost

Phebe decided she needed to cut her bangs. I was thinking we were out of the woods with scissor happy hands. Guess, I was wrong. Phebe said she didn't cut her hair. She was under a spell and a ghost did it. A ghost always does something when Phebe thinks she is in trouble. Jaxon was quite happy about Phebe cutting her hair. That meant she got in trouble. I had to take Phebe into the hairdresser to get it fixed.


Before Haircut


After Haircut
She wanted to get a Tinker Bell haircut. I think she looks adorable and it fits her personality. You can't even tell she cut her bangs.