Yesterday I was webcamming and I took some screenshots which I cropped into these pictures. Abby was making faces, they were so funny!
Archive for December, 2007
Webcam Pictures
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Joe’s and my birthday
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Here’s the pictures (finally!) from Joe’s and my birthdays! First are Joe’s because we celebrated his birthday first.
Here is the famous (or infamous?) Joe M, acting like a model with his new jacket and mug.
Joe gettin’ rabbit ears from Em!
Sittin’ on the brown couch waiting for Dad to finish taking pictures!
Dad always takes pictures then he says “Ok you can open presents.”
Me acting like a weirdo while waiting for everybody to sing Happy Birthday. Ok, story! Dad finally had gotten all 13 candles lit (there wasn’t 21, so the girls did a 2 on one pie and a 1 on the other), then they made me laugh and I accidentally blew some out! So Dad relit them. BEN even blew some out, too! (He’s sitting next to me.) Abby was getting up to see what was so funny!
Me still laughing! It was lots of fun! (By the way, see my cool South Africa shirt? So it’s covered by my jacket but you can kinda see it! Got it from my friend in South Africa!)
Sorry, Guys, Santa Claus Is A Woman (and don’t let me drive a stick!!)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007I hath seen with mine own eyes that Santa Claus is a woman. She even called me.
This morning I woke up at 9:30. At 9:40, I get a call from “restricted”. It was one of the ladies who works at the post office! She had an express package for me. Yay!! I guessed it was the package from my friend in Peru, Elizabeth. One of HER friends was coming to California, and so Elizabeth sent the package with her, for her to mail from California. The post office lady said she’d only be in for a half an hour more! What did I want to do? I could come in, or wait for it to be delivered tomorrow. Well, I thought the sooner the better, right? So I woke Ben up to come with me. (Mom woke Joe up, too, to come with us.)
This is where the embarrassing part comes in.
First of all, I don’t know how to drive a stick shift. Well, I know the basics, kind of…but I’ve only ever driven one once (and that was about a disaster too!). Well, Mom suggested I could start Ben’s pickup. I was like “How?” She told me, and Ben did too…push the clutch, put it into neutral, and and turn the key. Easy, right?
Not for me.
I go out there. I get in, shut the door, etc. I push the clutch. I grab the stick and try to put it in neutral. Doesn’t work. Mom said it would be able to go side to side when it’s in neutral. But it wouldn’t! Then I realized I hadn’t pushed the clutch. I pushed the emergency brake!! So I released that and pushed the real clutch and tried to find neutral again. I wasn’t getting it! I didn’t know what was wrong! So I called Ben.
“Ben, I can’t find neutral,” I said, “and are you coming? The post office lady will only be there for a few more minutes.”
“It’s easy. Yeah I’m coming.”
I look out the window and there he was! I scooted over and he and Joe got in. Ben pushed the clutch in, grabbed the stick, and went into neutral.
“See? Right there.”
I started laughing. Hard.
I debated whether or not to tell the boys.
Finally I did.
I hadn’t been messing with the gearshift stick at all.
I had been messing with the stick to put the pickup into four-wheel drive!!!
They laughed so hard!!
Then we got to the Post Office and Joe and I went in. The post office lady gave me my package (and something else I’ve been expecting for two weeks!) and said “I’m Santa Claus today. You know, it’s early Sunday, I didn’t know who I was, so I asked Darla and she said I’m Santa Claus!” (Darla is the postmistress.) See? I met Santa Claus!
Then we came home. 
(P.S. Santa Claus is a short woman.)
Santa Claus Lives in Billings, Montana
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Funny that us, who don’t “do” Santa, have had two brushes with the famous red-wearing, chimney-climbing fat man. I’m sorry to break it to you, folks, but I do have three facts that will change forever your perception of said Santa (who really should know better than to climb chimneys in an outfit that has white on it!)
Santa Fact #1: Santa Does Not Drive Reindeer Or A Sleigh.
No, my friends, Santa Claus drives…you’ll never guess. A sewer truck! When we lived in Oregon, Santa came to visit us, and no he didn’t drive magical reindeer, he drove an ordinary sewer truck. Nice going!
Santa Fact #2: Santa Claus Does Not Go Down Chimneys.
Nope. He comes through the front door! When he came to our house, he came to the front door like an ordinary person.
Santa Fact #3: Santa Does Not Live At The North Pole.
We have conclusively found at least the city Santa Claus lives in, and no, it’s not the North Pole. Today we received a check in the mail, postmarked Billings, Montana, from Santa Claus!
I think I may just believe in Santa after all!
