Shopping with a Cop

Big Brother Big Sister had their annual "Shopping with a Cop" event.  We had never been since we just started this program last January.  Wow, what a great program! We picked Markus up after work and everyone had to meet at Wal-Mart.  $100 gift cards were donated and each child gets a gift card to shop for his/her family. Markus came prepared with a list of gifts for his mom, dad, brother, and sister.  Each kid is designated a police officer to walk around and talk with us while we shop.  Markus picked out a flat iron for his sister, a red lobster gift card for his mom, t-shirts for his brother, a watch for his dad, and some treats for his dogs! It was so special to see Markus be able to buy gifts for his family.  He said he never gets to do that!

Below is a pic of Markus opening up his gift from us.  I love his facial expression in the first one.

MIA

Sorry, I've been MIA! Wish that meant in Miami, but it doesn't! It's been crazy at work, which is a good thing. The last few weeks have been such a whirlwind. So I will try to recap a bit.

Thanksgiving-We went to Brian's parent's house for Thanksgiving. Had a great time. Ate too much.  Nice to spend some time with his grandma.  She cracks me up! We went to my dad's house Saturday and also had a great time and ate too much!

Colby is still a little stinker.  See pic below.

The week after we had Brian's friends birthday party and Kaelyn and Jennifer stopped by to visit.  See pic below.  It was so funny, we were just trying to get her to just smile regular, but she kept giving us a big cheesy smile. It was hilarious.

Also had date night with Jackson, Sheila's son. He just turned 10 so he got to pick what we had for dinner. As you can see from the pic below....it was real healthy.  We watched Smurfs and both crashed early! We were long overdue for a date!

Ok that's all for now!  I hate going too long without blogging.  Hope my readers are still out there!