ode to holly...

oh my - hello there!!! it's been so long since we've posted that only our true, loyal fans are checking in to see if there's an update... so, surprise to you!!! :) and this would be a good place to say something like we made a new year's resolution to be better about updating this thing, but that wouldn't be meaningful, or true, so we'll just try hard to do better, but we'll always make it up to you with cute pictures whenever we do update, now matter how frequent or infrequent that may be... blah, blah, anyway, moving on... this is luke by the way, so... christmas was awesome and things are going (mostly) okay so far this january - but more on that to come. first we have to catch up with our special visitor all the way from november!! look at this beautiful face, folks - we love aunt holly!!!

we actually really do love her. especially me. i was smitten with her and also loved getting to see her again (although briefly) in indy at christmas. i look at pictures of her almost every day... :)

too bad i wasn't smiling very big in those pictures above, but just trust me on the loving her part. i even wrote her a little poem, titled "ode to holly." here it goes:

roses are red,

violets are blue,

then why are they called violets?

who knows, but holly, i sure do love you!

i'll probably get that published in a book of poetry pretty soon... and now to finish up the year, we have some pictures of other things ben and i were up to around the house. nothing too exciting, but we wanted to share them anyway...

fun on daddy's mower...

yay for momma's chocolate chip cookies!!!

cute hat...

ben pretending to be a gypsy pirate (i guess)...

my reaction to ben's goofyness...

brotherly love...

awesome tire swing daddy hung in our backyard - we love it!!!

okay, i know that doesn't seem like much, but that's it for now. hopefully that will tide you over and you'll still check back in on us again soon. and hopefully we'll be back again soon, which would mean that we have survived the bermuda triangle of events that have happened to ben this month so far. first he fell a couple weeks ago and knocked his top two front teeth loose and we're still waiting to see if they'll tighten back up on their own (please, please), or if they'll die and have to be pulled out (boooo). then he fell this weekend and luckily momma talked the ER doctor out of stitches and they did the skin glue instead and that seems to be working well so far. but mostly he's distracted by this terrible cough he has, which has left him sounding like a troll with whooping cough. he did also turn four last week, which was a very fun day for all, and we'll update more on that later too. but now i have to get off the computer because mom needs it back in order to search the web for a bubble to put ben in for a few weeks while he gets better, so that nothing else happens to him. we have lots of fun christmas toys to play with though, and we make bread in momma's new bread machine all the time, so we're definitely still having fun and enjoying things. we're just hoping nothing else crazy happens around here for awhile!!!

okay. bye!!!!!!!! :)