Facing Forward

On Tuesday we dropped this sweet boy off at the airport to wing his way to Utah and the Missionary Training Center. It was awfully bittersweet. 

It's tough to know who had the hardest time holding it together. Evidently Mom had a breakdown in Publix a few days later, so it might be her. On the other hand, Madeline told me today it was "too soon" for her to write him a letter. 

I have chosen to deal with things in my own way. Namely, sending letters and packages that will make him laugh. 

In the meantime we will soldier on, trying to have a good time without him. After we left the airport we headed up to Little Talbot Island to drown our sorrows in the ocean. 

 

It pretty much worked. Until later that night when I realized I couldn't even text Jed and proceeded to have the ugliest of ugly cries. 

There should be no question that Jed is loved. 

SEE YOU IN 2015, ELDER SEAMAN!!

SNOWMAGEDDON

I realize that watching other people's videos can be kind of a drag, but I promise you these are FUNNY! (As a bonus, they are only 30 seconds to a minute long.)

Looky, looky

We're fondue-ing tonight, as per our New Year's Eve tradition. I don't know how it got started, but as we are anti-social types who rarely leave our house, it's a good tradition, don't you think? We're even got a collection of fondue pots so we can have a variety of yumminess- the traditional cheese, broth (for cooking meat and veggies) and chocolate. Since all of Jed's friends abandoned him (and he heard we had shrimp and Sparkling Grape Juice) he decided to come celebrate the new year with us. I know he's only using us for our food, but I'm okay with that.

Here's a couple of pictures from last New Year's Eve (2007). Jealous??? :P



Back to the REAL reason I'm posting. If you look over to the right-hand side of the screen, you'll see I've posted a poll!! YAY!! I'm actually asking for you opinions. What would you like to see here in the Tree Fort in 2009? If you'd like to make a different suggestion than the ones offered, just leave it in the comments in this post.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!