Keeping up with the Kants

Aw man! Did you know that my last post was my 100th post?! I was going to do something special, but alas...I guess posting about Xmas with the fam is special, right?  OK, now let's aim for the 201st post I guess.  Book update while I'm thinking of it; am 2/3 of the way done with A Lion Among Men. Kind of slow going, but my plans of completing the book this weekend were thwarted with Erich's, "I don't have the flu" flu. Whatever, if you're in the bathroom more than not, it's not normal.  Harper has discovered so many new words and phrases lately, you can really tell she's picking things up from the new room she's in at daycare.  Here are some of her favorites: No, Mama, Daddy, Abbey, Go Away, Please, Bubbles, milk, Elmo, Olivia, BYE!, Hi!, Grandma, Pa-pa and numerous other jibber jabber things we've yet to identify. She loves Elmo right now, and not just Sesame Street, but Elmo. I did get her to settle for Cookie Monster, and she does th...

Last weekend we visited my sister and family in KC and had our final Christmas, or maybe you would call it the first Christmas of 2012. Either way, a good time was had by all. We haven't seen them since before Thanksgiving, and so it was nice to catch up and see the kids. Harper also had fun playing with her cool cousins, their dog, and their two cats. Her biggest phrase of the weekend was to Brady, their golden retriever...Go Away! Poor dog just wanted to lick her face.  Abbey stayed at the kennel, which was a good thing because I don't think we'd have had room for one more item in the car. We stopped in St Jo on the way down to get some dinner...and wouldn't you know it, there was a Chicfila, Chipotle, and Panda Express all at the same intersection of the mall. We of course chose Chicfila, but man, if we lived in St Jo...we'd be poor, fat and in heaven lol. On the book news, I am still working on A Lion Among Men; this last weekend really set me behind, and I am...

Every year I make a goal to read x amount of books. Last year I went off the deep end with 50; I lost count but I can guarantee I didn't read that many. I love to read by never take the time, outside of the 15-20 minutes before I go to bed, which I don't really count because I fall asleep and have to reread most of what I already read. Vicious cycle really.  So, this year, I am setting a more specific goal, a list of 15 titles I want to read in 2012. 15 is pretty realistic, and I am almost done with the first one of the list. And, I already own nearly all of the books, so I don't have to go find them to read them. Here's the list. If you have any suggestions of a good read to add, let me know. A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire (the third in the Wicked series) Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (the final book in the Wicked series)  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame Smith Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Rigg...

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, we really can't complain.  And we have one more Christmas in a couple weeks with my sister and her family, so we are definitely looking forward to that.  Harper got to start her Christmas off with a trip to Chuck-E-Cheez with her boyfriend Patrick. She had never been before, and she found out pretty quickly how much fun the place is.  And she received a Mr. Potato Head, so now Mrs. Potato Head has the love of her life. We were really blessed with such beautiful weather around the last few weeks of December. While a white Christmas would have been nice, I am OK with a nice, sunny Christmas as well. Instead of going into detail about our Christmases, I will let the pictures do the talking.  Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, and are ready for 2012. Baking cookies at Aunt Sandy's house mmm, frosting! Playing with Luke All the kiddos Playing with Lynn Lynn and Erika I wish you could hear Harp...