New do's!

As you may notice I have peeled away the cobwebs, from the lack of not doing any Flash work in a long while, and have designed a small Flash banner above. "Christmas photos???", you may be thinking. Well, I have been feeling guilty since I never got around to getting a good enough picture for a Christmas card this year, so I took a year off...sorry! Hopefully I will get a good one next year! Thought maybe you would at least enjoy seeing that I attempted to capture a nice picture of the kids. ;)

We have had a fun week here at the Best household, haven't done anything too extraordinary, but had a great time anyway. On Thursday, Emma, Nolan and I each got our hair cut. It was Nolan's first, and he was not a fan to say the least! My mom got back into town after being with my Gram in Chicago for a week and a half. She had been up there going to doctor's appointments and being with my Gram while she got some more tests done to figure out what treatments she will need for beating the breast cancer she was recently diagnosed with. Hopefully Gram will find out more on Tuesday when she goes to the doctor and also gets the results back from her PET scan. So, Thursday night the kids and I had dinner at Darcy's Pint with my mom before she heading to Texas to meet up with my dad on Friday. It was great to see her, I know that my Gram really appreciated her being up there with her!

Saturday night we were getting a bit of cabin fever, so Brett suggested getting a bite to eat and heading to the mall for the kids to run around a bit (of course we were both thinking that the mall and the play area, wouldn't be that crowded, I mean it is Springfield and all, but boy were we wrong!) After we grabbed some dinner at Chipotle, we headed to the mall. We didn't last long in the play area since there were a couple kids coughing with really snotty noses (YUCK!) and there were some bigger kids that were a bit, hummmm how should I say this, routy. I did finally manager to catch Nolan, on video, walking.



Emma was happy to leave the play area once we told her we could ride on the carousel and get a cookie at the Cookie Factory. We had a nice family outing and it was great to get out of the house!

As always, Emma has entertained us this week! One day this week while I was laying Nolan down for his nap, I could hear the water in the bathroom running. When I went to go check on Miss E, she turned to me and said "I have a beard!" SO I decided to capture it on camera in between laughing! Hey, at least I know she can entertain herself! Then, on Friday I had a doctor appointment, so as we were getting ready to leave the house Emma ran back to her room to grab her shoes and bumped her neck on the handle of her door. She came running out to me crying and said (in a very whiney 3 yr old voice), "I hurt my neck on my door." I gave her a hug, made sure she was okay and then finished getting ready to leave. She was still whining about it a bit so I asked her, "Are you going to be okay? Or are we going to have to cut your neck off?" To which she replied, ever so cutely, "No I fine. We can't my neck. We only cut bread. We don't cut Emma's."

We ended our weekend at the Coker's house, last minute on Sunday night, to celebrate Campbell's (Coco's) six and a half year birthday and for some yummy cupcakes! Ashley makes her own chocolate frosting and it is to die for, seriously if I lived at their house I would probably weigh 500 pounds! All the kids (well except baby Nolan) got to have birthday candles, which you will notice in the video. Unfortunately, I didn't have my video camera with me, so I had to capture the video on my regular camera and right before Coco made her wish, my memory card filled up and ended the video....I am sure it was a good wish though!



When my parents went to visit my sister in Australia back in December, my sister had sent home a couple items/gifts for the kids. One of the items was a pair of adorable Koala bear slippers for Emma to open on her birthday, but got put aside after unpacking by my mom (and then repacking for Chicago and then packing again for Texas, I mean, who can blame her...that is a lot of packing and unpacking)! So, she got the slippers today when I stopped by to check on my parents house and here is a pic, mostly for my sister since she lives so far away ;(, of the cute Koala slippers she sent.



Another video I have added is just a silly one that I captured of the kids after finishing dinner one night this week. Nolan really loves to dance and does this silly head shake...Emma of course likes to encourage it too! ;)



NOTE: Don't forget, you can view more images, by clicking on the title of the article above. Enjoy!