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It's CHRISTMAS TIME!  I can't wait for Santa bring me everything I want!  Well anything would be great!

Lots going on this month as you will see!  Hope we can keep up with the website this month!  We are busy people!

 

I love all of you...you are all so nice to me!  Oh, and a big thanks for all the gifts!  We hope you all have a great holiday with your families!

 

Mommy will always have fond memories of "Uncle Harold" and hope that he is in a much better place and that they have the Sports Channel so he may never miss a Pirates baseball game and local Kittanning wrestling match. 

Memories~
*I will always remember Uncle Harold eating dessert, no matter how large the meal was before hand.  I will always remember our car trips (thru Tarentum) to Pirates baseball games, honking the horn under overpasses.  I will never forget playing ping-pong in the basement!  I will always remember visiting the barber shop and watching him with his customers who genuinely loved him.  I enjoyed attending church with him and Aunt Kitty.  I can picture in my mind the way he would nod his head and smile right before he would tell you something "witty" or that he believed to be "witty".  I will forever remember how he could barely get up from a chair and how he got down on all fours to the floor to play cars with my son.  And I will never EVER forget how this wonderful man treated and loved my Aunt with all his heart. *

Rest in Peace Uncle Harold...you will be sadly missed but fondly remembered.


 

This is my 6th Christmas and they just keep getting better and more fun!  I am getting like Mommy and absolutely loving this time of year!  The only thing that would have made it perfect for me would be just to have gotten a little bit of snow!  (I know, I know Pa-Pa & Daddy, but you can't tell me that when you were a kid that you didn't feel the same way!)  Anyway, NO ONE had to get me up this year...however, I was the last one to rise in the morning.  I snuck up on everyone as they were in the kitchen drinking their coffee and whispering. 
The FIRST thing I saw was my drum set....oh boy!  Nice!  It had fire on it just like I asked for!  I only told Mommy about that...how did Santa know?  We moved that out of the way and then I saw my nutcracker!  Ever since I was "little" I have loved these things...I always make Mommy stop at them when I see them in stores.  I was excited when I got a set of little ones to hang on my tree too!  The only conclusion I can come up with is...yes, Santa IS watching!  He is really nice too...he is about half my size and has a beard and is holding a sword.  He is just like the one I was looking at in the store!  It didn't take me long to tear into the gifts.  I knew if I saw the letters C-O-L-E, it was for me!  I opened up a small box from Santa and it was a Lego's truck.  Before I even had all of the paper off, I yelled, "Lego City! I know it's here someplace!"  I jumped up and looked around the tree for a really big box and I found one, but Mommy said that one was from Uncle Mark.  I didn't care, it was big, from Uncle Mark, so I wanted to open it next!  WOW...my very own pinball machine...a big one too!  Thanks!  I can't wait to play that!  Next, I did find my Lego City box and Santa brought me the airport set!  That will be fun to put together.  (*Update, it took Grandma, Daddy and a little help from me about 2 1/2 hours to build!).  I also got almost all of the die cast cars characters from my all time favorite movie, Pixar's CARS!  Next, I opened up a gigantic bag gift from Grammy & Pap.  It was Army bedding for my room and a tank pillow!  Uncle JG's packages were next....oh, boy...GI JOE'S and lots of them!  He got me some good guys AND bad guys, the motorcycle and the ATV.  Thanks!  Package from Nickoli...more Army guys!  Yeah!  I can't wait to set them all up to fight!  Grandparents Proper got me a cool experiment set for the bath tub,  I had picked this out and was glad to see they remembered.  You can mix colors in the test tubes while you are getting a bath!  Mommy is glad for this as well, so now I wont waste all of her bath soap!  They also got me a game about the USA and a soccer ball practice set!  Given the beautiful weather we are having, I won't have to wait until Spring to try that out!  Whoa, another big package under the tree...from Aunt Susan and Uncle Allen.....Mega Blocks Pirates of the Caribbean building set!  Awesome!  (*Update, this set took Daddy & me about an hour and a half to build).  I will be playing with this a lot while watching Part 2 of the movie that we got from Santa!  Oh my, how could I forget....Santa also got me Rock'em Sock'em Robots!  I can't wait to "knock your block off!".  Mommy & Daddy got me some stuff too....I got some new games (Guess Who and Battleship), large floor puzzles, marble maze and the Ninja Turtles movie.  Oh, but the BEST GIFT that Mommy got for ME AND DADDY was.....everyone was done opening all of their gifts (yea, other people got stuff too, not just me!).  Grandma noticed another package way under and towards the back of the tree.  Mommy said she couldn't reach it and it said it was for me....so I had to carefully crawl under and get it.  Daddy was sitting on the couch watching me open it up....he seemed confused, not sure why.  Anyway, I wasn't sure what it was...I saw "Cars" on it and there was some weird looking thing that reminded me of a remote wrapped up too....as I was saying "Cars", Daddy yells out...."hey, that's XBOX stuff!".  Mommy just nodded and said, "it's behind the couch!"  No sooner was Daddy over the backside of the sofa!  And they say only kids get excited at Christmas!  heehee!   I really had no idea what the big deal was....I'm sure I will figure it out later. 
Well...once the packaging opening frenzy was over, which did take about an hour almost two, this year.  We cleaned up the mess, organized the "pile" of my stuff.  Mommy started fixing dinner and the we started to put things together that I got and take them out of the packaging.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone for all of my gifts!  I absolutely got everything I ever wanted and am so happy that we were all able to be together for the holidays!  I hope everyone had a nice time too!

                 THANK YOU ~ THANK YOU~ THANK YOU!
 

Well...Uncle JG had to leave last night...I hated to see him go, but he had to work today!  I was happy that he was able to come for the extra night though.  I love playing with him!
It has been pretty rainy out the last few days so Grandma and Pa decided to get on the road and head back home today.  We wish they could have stayed longer but they wanted to go home. 
We didn't do much today, except play with all my new toys.  Mommy and Grammy did some shopping at the Hershey outlets.  We all headed to Wal-mart, surprisingly, it was not overly crowded at all, I had some Christmas money that was burning a hole in my pocket.  Also, Daddy was itching to by himself a "grown-up" game for the XBox!  That area of the store was really, really busy...heehee!
It was a nice relaxing day and Daddy and me played the CARS game over and over again.  I really like video games and have quickly become addicted.
 

Mommy had to go back to work today, but Daddy has the entire week off!  I got to stay home so we could have a day all to ourselves!  Daddy thought we have been spending too much time hanging out at home, so we headed downtown to the Whitaker Science Center in Harrisburg.  I have been here before, but it's been awhile and they were having a K'NEX exhibit and Daddy thought I would enjoy that!
After playing there, we had to stop at Best Buy to return a DVD and Daddy got us a new game for the XBox....Lego's Star Wars!  Well, let me just tell you....that it is the best game EVER!  It's so funny and so much fun.  Daddy and me have to work together to solve puzzles, put together things with...yes, LEGO'S...and help defend the universe from the evil Darth Vader! What fun, fun, fun! 
 

We went bowling this morning.  We are going to try and go as much as we can.  It's a lot of fun and a nice Sunday morning activity.  I picked up a really messy split.  The lady working the counter saw it and cheered for me too!  My ball just rolled right down the lane and then across the pins, knocking them all over!  It was great and like nothing Mommy and Daddy have ever seen before...heehee!
After bowling we went grocery shopping and picked up some of the ingredients we needed to make Grandma Proper's New Year's sandwiches and to get some things for the party at the Hartley's in the evening.  I helped the soda delivery guy too, he was trying to take this huge pallet of soda boxes down the lane, they wobbled and about 5 boxes crashed to floor, two of them ripped open and sent soda cans rolling everywhere!  Mommy and me helped him to gather them up and put them back in the boxes!  Whew!  He was very grateful for my help even though he probably could have gotten it done faster himself...heehee! 
We had a nice quiet afternoon and got ready to go to our friends house.  We didn't do too much, hung out, ate food, talked a lot!  Our friends, the Fisher's came too.  We all watched the big ball drop down at midnight.  This was the first time for me and I thought it was pretty cool!  I had fun with all the kissin' though, I gave Mommy a kiss and she gave Daddy a kiss and I gave Daddy a kiss and he gave Mommy a kiss and they both gave me a kiss!  It was great!  It wasn't much longer after that we all started to clean up and head home.  I think I fell asleep as soon as we pulled out of the driveway!

                          HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!