Catching Up

Saturday afternoon I got a call from Jason that started out like this, "Let me start off by saying, I'm OK and it wasn't my fault". Of course I'm sure you can guess what he was talking about but if you can't let me tell you. He was in a car accident while on his way to Christmas shop.
Here's the scoop, he was stopped behind a car at a red light when all the sudden some one plowed into him from behind. Our car was then propelled forward and hit the car in front of him which then propelled 3/4 of the way into the intersection. He was fine and so was the man in the car in front of him. The teenagers that hit him were a little worse for wear but everyone walked away and that was good. The car that hit him was pretty much totaled. Our car will need to go in the shop for new bumpers (front and back) a new tail light and possibly some work on the trunk, pretty minor thankfully. The car in front of him has a cracked frame by the rear bumper.
camera. I am so thankful and you will be too since now you will see better pictures on the blog.Next: Jason and I exchanged gifts Saturday night because I guessed my present. I hate that I almost always know what he got me. It's not his fault and he always gets me really good presents but IT BUGS TO NOT GET THE FABULOUS SURPRISE OF CHRISTMAS MORNING. O, to be young again. First let me say that we agreed to only get stocking stuffers this year for one another because we are buying a house. So I bought him a water bottle, I know, I know, how lame but it's one of those polycarbonate bottles so that he doesn't have to refill his grocery store water bottles any more. This past year I sent him to school a few times with a breakfast drink (cranberry juice or orange juice) and he had to take it in one of Abygail's sippy cups so that it would not spill, that's the only beverage container we had. I did put thought into it but again - it's a water bottle so nothing to spectacular. He on the other hand bought me a digital I'm glad we opened them early so that we can use it to take good pics for Christmas. Thank you sweetie!

Finally: Abygail has been very excited about the presents under the tree. She has been trying to sneak them out of the living room to open them. We opened a few early, our new ornaments to commemorate this past year. I haven't blogged about this but I LOVE ORNAMENTS. I love pulling them out each year and thinking about where I/we got them, who gave them to me/we and under what circumstances they were received. My most prized ornament is this one, it's one that my brother Paul made for me when we were all much younger.

Here is Jackson's ornament for the year, he loves reaching up to the tree and trying to pull the ornaments off.

Abygail's, last year she got one similar to this one with the same kitty in a stroller. Notice she (the cat) is holding a baby kitty (brother).

Last Year's

This Year's

Jason and I got this cute little house to remember this is the year we bought our first house.