End of the Year

I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and that you are looking forward to a great, fun, spectacular, boozy New Year's!!!!

Here I am...absolutely FREEZING...in Wisconsin!! Emily and I are having a lot of fun however, with my sister Karen and her family! All of "our men" have gone up north to go snowboarding and ice fishing~they can have that fun without us girls:) We are not at all interested in those kinds of things!

I am super excited that the Vikings have finally made it into the playoffs!! I have been an extremely devoted fan to a team that has not always made wise choices with their draft picks and players who seem to "freak out" at the end of every season. As the stats show, I believe their "freak out" is in danger of reappearing this weekend. I will continue to be devoted and I have started to Pray that they will win at least their first playoff game!

Christmas has past and here I am without getting a Christmas picture and letter out. The time just seems to fly by way to fast for me to manage it all. I am planning to get something out in the mail...late...but that is better than nothing at all!!!

I am still amazed that almost everyday I seem to shrink more when I am by my children. When did they get so big? Patrick is really pushing 6 feet now and I can't believe on 2/2/09 he will be 16...my 1st baby will be driving....HELP!!!! Something must be in our water as Tyler has grown incredibly fast again...he is now 5' 6 1/2"...what is going on?! Poor Ben is all of a sudden about 8" shorter than Tyler, for only being 13 months younger he sure is a lot smaller. Ryan is ecstatic as he received a true life drum set from Santa....please pray for my sanity!!! With Ben and his electric guitar and Ryan and his drums I am going to need it! Also, little miss Emily has taken to periodic, ear piercing screams...we can't seem to figure out why!!! She is very happy to have received Baby Alive who really goes potty from Santa...this is helping Emily with her potty training progress!

I just wanted to send out a quick note about what's going on and let you all know that I am still here!

Mary...so sorry...really about the Bears loss...NOT!!!! (Love Ya though)
Kristin

Pre-Holidays

Hello,
My life has been a whirlwind of activity for the past several months. Time seems to fly by more quickly than I realize! Work has been keeping me very busy and stressed most of the time. We are still Praying that Owensboro sales will increase-hopefully once the new "big" sign arrives our sales will skyrocket?! Please pray with us as we need all of the help we can get.

Ryan has had all of the testing that can be done to someone regarding his abdominal pain and "ill" feelings every week. Thank God there is apparently nothing wrong with him other than probable pain from intestinal cramping and normal digestion. The specialist has come to the conclusion that he is extremely sensitive to his body functions and that he will need to overcome this somewhat on his own. She did prescribe a medication to reduce intestinal cramping and somewhat slow down his acid production. He takes this when he is in pain and "knock on wood" it seems to be lessening the pain!!! Ryan is playing basketball this year again and is having a lot of fun.

Patrick is recovering from his 2nd-3rd degree burn on his left arm. He will end up with a scar, but it has healed well and without getting infected! Patrick is now 5'11" and 155 pounds. I believe he is heading for a growth spurt as he has gained 15 pounds in the past 2 months and he seems very tired all day long.

Tyler has been busy doing his "projects" that he thrives on. He has grown as well and is 5'5", I know that he weighs 105 now as he is a freak about his weight...this is worrisome to me! He weighs himself before he eats and then after he is done eating...if he gains weight he doesn't eat as much later! I have talked to the dr. about a possiblity for anorexia...only to be shot down as Tyler has grown a lot and gained quite a bit of weight in the past year...still, I am ever watchful of this!!!! He is also proud of his six pack that he has deligently been working on.

Ben is still the same old Ben. Tom and I are still convinced that he will or should become a lawyer. Ben argues about everything, he even continues arguing even if you have agreed with him. I think he likes to argue so much that it takes him a while to comprehend that you have agreed with him. Ben is still noticably smaller than Tyler as he is 4'10" and weighs 78 pounds. His time for growing should be heading his way soon!

Miss Emily is having some problems with potty training. She knows exactly what she is supposed to be doing, but, I fully believe that she doesn't "want to" do it yet! Every once in a while she will just go to her potty and go, however, when I make her sit on her potty she refuses to go potty!!! Talk about being in control!!!!!! She is really starting to talk quite a lot more and most people are able to understand pretty much everything that she says. We are finding that she has quite the Southern Accent. It is just adorable. She keeps talking about Santa bringing "Lots of presents, toys and dolls"...this is her "catch phrase" when asked what santa will bring her. She is extremely excited this year about the whole christmas season and all of the decorations. It is a joy to watch the "awe" we see in her eye and face and to hear it in her squeals of delight! This will be a fun, fun Christmas for her.

I had better be going now, I will try and get my pictures updated soon! Take Care, K

Been Gone A Long Time

Hello,
I can't believe that it has been 2 months since I have updated my Blog...what a bad thing!!! Life has been kinda crazy and I am just feeling flooded with everything. I need to update this at a later time though as I am starting to (finally) get tired...it is 4:05am! I will talk to you all later