Hannah's Meet Dec. 14, 2008

Hannah did rather well at her second meet of the season. These pictures are of her on the beam. She placed 1st place on beam, 2nd place on vault, 3rd place on bars and 3rd place on floor in her age divison. She also placed 3rd place for all-around with a score of 33.00 (she needs a 35 to be able to go to Nationals.) I think she can do it! Yeah I know I am her mom...but Hannah has the drive in her...she is really excited about summer this year...she is going up to a camp called International Gymnastics Camp and Shawn Johnson is going to be there (please pray that Shawn's week does not change!!) Hannah is so excited about meeting her! Well I think that I am actually caught up on the family activities...but our family is always on the move and we are going sometimes in different directions...but that's okay, and hey we are having fun!

Christmas Day 2008

We hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas! Our children were waiting for the day to arrive...we got them a wii system to all share; but of course "Santa" still came by with some small gifts for each. Our cat Tate even enjoyed the wii box as you can see with the pictures above. I love to see the excitment of children of all ages openning there presents on Christmas Day! And best of all...each and everyone of us got the best gift of all!--yes Jesus--God's Son gave the best gift of death on that cross--but rose again to save us all from our sins.

We had a great day of people coming and going all thru out the day...Craig cooked (yes ladies I have got a good man--does all the Christmas cooking every year!) He made chicken, ham, potatoes, veggies--but then I come in and top off the evening with many desserts! Kevin made the cheesecake this year and it was very yummy!! Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves...so until next year we can do it all over again. I think that food is a big part of the holidays.

We hope that you enjoy the pictures of the Waterman kids openning up some gifts. We miss you Grams, Pappy Althouse & Nana Mertz! Hope you enjoy your package of goodies (so sorry that it was late getting in the mail).

We wish everyone a Blessed New Year! May the Lord bless you with good health...remember to treat everyone in a loving, respectful way & to do your very best whether it would be in school or work--no matter what you are doing in life do it to the best of your abilities!

Christmas just around the corner!!

Well I hope all is well...and everyone is almost done with their Christmas shopping...NOT!! Yeah this year I am really behind in that department. I am really just not in the spirit of shopping...hate the long lines...hate the rude people in the long lines...and hate the fact that I have to be pinching pennies. Okay enough feeling sorry for me cuz I know that you don't. Anyway the real reason for Christmas is JESUS. I think that people really have forgotten the reason for the season. Remember to celebrate the birth of our Savior this Christmas season. And yes--I am saying Merry Christmas to people in the stores.

Actually to be honest with you Craig and I are getting away cheap this year...kids in the Waterman family took a vote and all agreed with getting a wii--so good old Mom (that's me) shopped online in Oct and got a great deal on one. Hopefully Craig and I will get to play sometimes too!

We are still upgrading everything to our new computer (thanks to my inlaws--they got us a family gift of a new computer for Christmas and gave it to us early) We have windows vista--pretty cool now that it works...word of advice--use Norton antiveris not Panda...Panda was locking up our whole system and yes it was not even getting to our pretty desktop...so I want to say sorry that I did not get to update the blog for so long. But never fear good people--everything is working great and we are actually enjoying windows vista...great things like videos and other stuff can be done...so when I figure out how to videos I will then try to figure out how to post to blog.

Well everyone please have a Blessed Christmas with family and friends.