Oh, the night shift...

Oh, the night shift...

It occasionally morphs me into an unrecognizable human...
It forces me to live on ridiculously small amounts of sleep...
It made me delusional enough to tell Canyon that Gary was Santa...
It confused me enough to pay my costco membership 10x the amount...
It makes me grumpy, irritable and emotional labile...

BUT only for 3 days and not always. Sometimes we hold it together just fine.
...it pays our bills and puts Gary through school.
...it enables our lovely life.
...it allows me to spend more time with my boys.

HOWEVER, when I am done with it I wont miss it!

It's been nearly 60 degrees...

And we have been outside enjoying it, hiking it, breathing it, and LOVING IT!

Trek spends a lot of time doing this...

Behind the door is a line of cars and trucks and the sweet sounds of make believe voices and growls.
Trek makes me smile.

New Year's

We went to our neighbor's.

We played ping pong and danced with the wii.

We ate snacks and toasted with Martinelli's

Trek and Canyon ran and played and made it to midnight.

We blew horns and cheered when the clocked struck 12:00.

Gary & I kissed.

And John Lennon's song Imagine played just before the ball dropped in NYC.

My favorite verse from the song:

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

Each year brings new beginnings, new opportunities, and change.

Dream.

Hope.

Pray.

React.

Love.

Imagine.

Happy New Year!

P.S. While getting ready for the party I was putting lotion on Canyon. He was excited for the party and said, "I really do need lotion, because I don't want to get a party rash."

:/ :o :-)

I laughed the rest of the night thinking of this.

Rainbows

Did you know that not everyone knows the color of the rainbow?

At work someone asked me what order to fill the viles of blood. I said "in order of the rainbow (they all have color coded tops)." He replied "well that doesn't help me."

And while talking with Gary about colors he was unaware that the order of the rainbow is exactly the same every time the light shines through droplets of moisture in that perfect way.

Do you know the colors of the rainbow and their order?

P.S. This picture was taken by my mama on Evening Star.

Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas.
We got everything we wanted. Family. Love. And a few fun gifts.

We are grateful for the message this holiday brings. We are grateful for each other.

We are grateful for the blessing in our life and the people who bring them to us.

Christmas Eve

The Caroling.

The Sugar Plum treats.

The Christmas Story. Bless my S-I-L Lyndee for making this happen year after year. This picture cracks me up with it's complete wildness. However the sweetness of best birth story ever was felt as it is every year the Kirkman grandkids act it out.

Love.

My mother and father in law jamming out.

And as Gary strapped Canyon's limp, partied out body into his car seat to head home Canyon summed up the night by saying, "That was one cool party."


And after we arrived home in Flagstaff we layed our sweet angles down and we all slept in our room.