What happened?

What Leeza does when you ask her..."What happened Leeza?"

This was taken with my phone on the way to get our Christmas card photo's taken by my incredible photographer friend Karen. It will be the first Christmas card I have done since Sean's first Christmas...9 years ago. It was always so hard to get everyone together, then I just blew it off. Since I have not gotten Leeza's adoption announcement out (never did a birth announcement for Sean either...man, I am a horrendous mother!!), I knew I HAD to do a Christmas card photo of at least the kids that live at home!

We will see if any of them turned out. Sean looked incredibly desheviled, and he cut his bangs (just one strip of them) so he looks really pretty stupid. (I know that sounds mean but truly, he looks stupid!!) He was "bored" so he just cut his hair. For such a smart, mostly sweet kid, he can be so..."10"!!! UGH!! Leeza would not cooperate either, and wanted to walk instead of sit still, and would not keep her shoes on. LOL
I had the cutest lil headband for her, but she ripped that off too. {Sigh} She also had a cute Christmas purse that was handed down for her older cousins, but of course she threw that aside as well. She did not get the memo that she needs to be Mommy's perfect Christmas angel and cooperate with me for the perfect Christmas photo, apparently.

So, we'll see of all the millions of photo's Karen took if we can find a couple that will work for a Christmas card.

Since I also do not have a family photo since Christmas 1998, I am going to try to have Karen do our family photo's this year since Joey is coming home for Christmas and we are not going to Dallas. I am trying-really-I am. :)

Leeza has been crabby lately-and TIRED. She will go into her room and try to crawl into her crib. She will yell until I come in and put her in her crib-gotta give it to her, she knows when she's tired. She is a great lil sleeper though and for that I am grateful.


No Nasal Puncture-but surgery on Tuesday, December 9th!
Please say prayers and send warm thoughts for Joe. His chronic sinus infections and another one in Kazakhstan prompted him to FINALLY see a doctor, and it's a good thing he did. Not only does he have 2 polyps that have to be removed, he has a huge cyst that must be removed too. YUCK! It's a good thing he did not let them do that "nasal puncture" in Kaz-it would not have done any good and probably resulted in some insidious infection. It's an outpatient procedure, but he has to NOT eat for 2 days after surgery-cold liquids only. He did ask if Guinness counted-which made the nurse laugh-but said NO ALCOHOL. He also has some trough he has to have below his nose to drain all the gook. That sounds pretty disgusting to me. They said he should be able go back to work that next Monday. He wanted to wait until after the holidays but they refused to give him ANY MORE antiobiotics-it's that bad. In fact, they wanted to do it today, but he can't be on an any Advil, so they had to wait for that to get out of his system. I am anxious for him to be rid of this so he can feel good ALL the time. Poor guy!!

Happy Birthday sweetie!!
We celebrated Joe's 53rd birthday yesterday and I think he had a great day. We kept taking pictures of Leeza and emailing him on our iphone. :)

When I look behind me in the back seat, I still am so thrilled and excited and amazed that "Baby Kaz" is here and home with us. Her blue eyes are just so stunning to turn around and see...and look much prettier when she is not screaming her head off in the back seat....