"This is my favorite Christmas card with my mom...I mean my dad...or maybe it is my mom...anywho" 
"I sure do love Mr. Snuggleworth, and we sure do wish you a Merry Christmas"
"We love Christmas so much that we decided to dress up like it was Halloween"
"Dear Humans, Please save me, these people think I am the baby Jesus. Seriously, someone call animal protective custody"
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I've never gotten a sultry Christmas picture of my mailman.....I'm just saying.
I LOVE to get Christmas cards in the mail! Especially the ones with pictures. That way I can see how much your babies have grown over the year or if you got a new dog or went on an awesome vacation, etc. I also love to send them out for the very same reason. I have discovered, however, that I am apparently on the very low side of creativity when it comes to wishing all my family and friends a Happy Holiday Season. I found a few examples of Christmas cards, that truly embrace the holiday spirit.
"We used our DSi's to make funny faces and dyed our cat green this year"
"For the gunlover in everyone"
"We just got a new puppy! The doctor's say we shouldn't have real babies"
"We wanted to share our impending joy.....and nakedness"
"Hold on just a sec, I'm right in the middle of a game"
"In case you didn't remember our names, we labeled ourselves.....and some dude in the background"
I really don't even know what to say about this one. It's just creepy. Poor kids.
However, maybe you could give them a slight pep talk before each game so that they show up playing their best as well. I am a major fan and am over the moon that you guys have the chance to win the World Series, but I'm afraid if your guys keep going back and forth, my blood pressure is going to sky rocket by the end of the week. I'm going to need you to use more of your bull pen strength and let Pujols, Holliday and Berkman know that they are called "power hitters" for a specific reason, to hit the ball into the stands. I sure hope my suggestions help, I know if you would follow them, we could win the next two straight games and call this World Series WON! Wouldn't that be fantastic?! So let's do this! I want to see this after the next two games, please!
With much respect, because I think you're the man,
Aimee
Myer is the same. He has finally pushed through 1 bottom eye tooth, but is still struggling with the other 3. He sleeps through the night some and others he's up a bajillion times. He goes right back to sleep, but he wants a drink, or can't find his paci, etc, etc. Last night was one of those nights.....
2 weeks ago today, a horrible thing happened in our Klinge Klan. Boomer, the beloved family yellow labrador was hit by a fellow farmers grain truck and passed away. It was very sudden and beyond devastating. Luckily, last Thursday, Boomer led Fred to a 10 1/2 week old yellow lab puppy in Carrollton whom is now named Bennett. No dog will ever replace Boomer, but Bennett will be a great edition to the family for sure!
Here's a wonder for you.....THE CARDINAL'S ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!! Can you believe it? Who'd have thunk it? It's fantastic! Wednesday night, you can guarantee we'll be rooting for the Card's to start out strong and show those Texas Rangers who's boss!
Don't worry, I'm still keeping up with all of my reality tv, along with Grey's Anatomy and loving them all! Tonight, however, I'll be skipping Dancing with the Stars to celebrate the birthday of one of my BESTIES! YAY! A GIRL'S DINNER! Perfection!
Poor Elisabetta on Dancing with the Stars. She really did improve from last week, but I think she just didn't have a big enough fan base. I mean, honestly, you can say she's an Italian model until you're blue in the face, but the few people that actually did know who she was, knew because she dated George Clooney. I still think David Arquette should've gone, though, he's pretty not so good. 
Of course Biggest Loser was on last night, and I guess I'm good with the choice to send Boston Johnny home, but I think Bonnie should, at least, be the next to go. Just my opinion, folks, take it or leave it for sure!
I finished my Joyce Meyer "Battlefield of the Mind" book yesterday. AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING. She helps to put you on the right path to being a true believer and live in the life of Christ. She uses awesome scriptures, and breaks them down for the feeble minded ones (myself) to truly understand and identify with. 17 thumbs up! I will definitely be reading more of her books in the VERY near future!!!!!
That's all I've got, I really only blogged because I have a new awesome picture of my brother's last race, but being a chatty Kathy, I've always got something else to talk about!
Secondly, a friend of mine posted this as their status on facebook and it is cute:
The Sing-Off is "off and running" and the first 8 groups were ones to be reckoned with! I thought it was really cool that a regular group from Branson, Missouri was on there (The Cat's Pajamas).....until they got kicked off on the first night. Honestly, though, they've already made it. They do 200 shows a year and some of these other groups are trying to get their big break! Definitely too early to pick a fave there too!
Last night was the season premiere of Biggest Loser. OMG I LOVE THAT SHOW! All the stories are so heartbreaking and these people are just looking for the opportunity to change their lives for the better and I am amazed every season by their transformations and successes! I am also highly impressed with the new trainers! Of course I love Bob, he's Bob, for heaven's sake, he needs no introduction, he's proven his talent and his team spanked the competition in the first weigh in! I'd never heard of Dolvett Quince, but he is hard core! He definitely proved himself in the gym and he is so motivating! He speaks so tenderly to his team members and they certainly benefited from his training by way of the scale! Now Anna Kournikova I wasn't so sure about. I know tennis players are great athletes, but I wasn't sold on her ability to train, but she's got it! And she is so emotionally involved as well, I love it! I thought I would miss Jillian, but the three trainers on Biggest Loser right now are AMAZING! I think they are perfect, and I think they are perfect for their teams too! As of the first episode, I am really liking the blue team's Becky and the black team's Antone. Maybe it's just because they both had major break throughs so early, but they just both really seem to be there for all the right reasons and they are ready to do what needs to be done!
Tonight starts X-Factor. I do love me some Simon Cowell, but we'll just have to see about this show. Did you know the winner of X-Factor wins 5 million dollars?!?! Holy cow! They better have some SUPER TALENT for that kind of money!
AND GREY'S ANATOMY STARTS THURSDAY! I hope this season is better than the last, but the preview shows Meredith being fired, so I don't know where it can even go from here.....
I really don't just sit around and watch TV, I swear. I do feed my family and bathe my kiddos and do household chores and such, just with the TV on. And with an occasional rewind on the DVR ;)
You've been a spitfire since the day you were born and I have loved every minute of it. You are growing into such an amazing young (dare I say it) woman. I love you so much!
This weekend, we leveled all the bushes, remulched and decorated! Here's the ending product:
Man, oh man, is summer over! One day you're maxin and relaxin with nothin to do, and the next you've got school, work, dance, acro, cheer, orthodontist, dentist, doctor, sinus infections, and so on and so forth!
She has the super Mr. Makings as her teacher and has several friends in her class too! We had a bit of drama on day #1, however, as she had told me she would eat an "All American Hot Dog", but when she got to school, she apparently cried because her crappy mom forgot to bring her lunch! Super Joe to the rescue! The rest of the week went great until Friday. First thing in the morning I got a call on my cell phone from the Southeast Nurse (whom is really, really nice) to tell me that Kailyn felt like her expander was moving around in her mouth! NOT GOOD! I went straight there and she was right, that darn thing was on the verge of falling out! Dr. Kavanaugh's nurse was in Chillicothe, but could meet in Sedalia at 3:30, so my wonderful mom took Kailyn and they ended up taking it out. I guess when it started jarring loose, some food got wedged in her between her molar bracket and molar and she got an infection. Nothing a few warm salt water rinses won't cure and her expander will get put back on at her regular ortho appointment here in town! What's the first thing Kailyn did when the nurse took that expander out, you ask? CHEW GUM! I don't think she's gone a single second without chewing gum since it came out (she's either making up for lost time or trying to beat Violet Beauregarde's record!)
This past Saturday was an nice break from the norm, though, our really awesome friend joined the big 3-0 club with a surprise party. Let me just tell you, his amazing wife had been planning it for months and kept it a secret the WHOLE TIME! Now that's talent! There was great food, great friends and great times! I may or may not have taken advantage of a lawn jockey, but really I feel like he may have taken advantage of me, so the jury's still out on that one.
My AMAZING brother has been placing the heck out of some races lately! Lots and lots! I've always been so proud of him for being such a talented rider!
Unfortunately, here's the bad news. First my mom had bronchitis and sinusitis, then Joe got a sinus infection and this morning, Kailyn woke up sounding just like them! Luckily, we have the BEST DOCTOR AND NURSES on the face of the planet, and since they saw Joe yesterday for his funk, they just called Kailyn in a Z-Pac to get her back on the mend.
