There's No Place Like Roam

After a close encounter with the corner of the kitchen table, Graham received his first black eye. It turned all shades of green before finally going away.

Well, our 12-Year Anniversary is today, which is also on Valentines Day (we have dubbed it our Vale-versary). We can't believe its been 12 years. We bought ourselves a new dishwasher last weekend, since ours had only been washing the bottom rack for months. Then, of course, our HVAC unit died. So, for our Anniversary this year, we are getting a new unit. (After having upstairs picnics all weekend.) We went to The Community Canvas last night and painted a masterpiece. We had a great time! Pictures are below:

Graham has had a terrible time since Christmas with colds and ear infections. One Saturday he had a fever which I had been treating with Tylenol. Around 6:30PM, I gave him his bedtime dose. At 7:30, when I was taking him to bed, I realized his fever had not gone down at all. I took his temp and it was 104.7. I totally freaked out, because I thought the medicine should have already worked - so what would it have been had I not given him the Tylenol??? Jason was working overtime, so I yelled to Carter and Hunter to get their shoes on and get in the car. I grabbed Grahams stuff, while frequently yelling to the boys to hurry up. The boys couldn't understand the urgency, so I unfortunatley stated something about thier baby brother's brain frying (awful, I know). Carter was ready to go, but watching me scurry about. He calmly stepped in front of me and said "Don't worry Mom, Graham is acting normally. I don't think its really that bad." Ha! Reality check. I don...

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The first Saturday of December, I hosted my first Cookie Exchange. I had been wanting to do this for years, but things were always too busy. I decided to go ahead and do it anyway this year and it was fun! Lots of ladies attended and the cookies were great! Maybe I will do it again...

While the family was in town Diana, Heather, Jackie and I decided to go to Sips N Strokes in Trussville, AL. They were doing a Holiday Wreath that we all liked. Well, this was not one of my best, but it was definitely a blast! I think everyone had a great time. I can't wait to go back!