Jonny & Jeffy **UPDATE**

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As some have discovered, this offer isn't working right now. Jeff has contacted Amazon to try and figure out why it's not being offered for free like it's supposed to be (and was several days ago). We'll let you know when it is free again, hopefully it will be!

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Friends and family,

I recently discovered Amazon's free self-publishing service, so I finally published the children's book that my brother and I wrote over ten years ago. It's FREE to download through Tuesday. Just click here, download it (again, for FREE), and join the 91 people in America, 42 people in the U.K. and 4 people in Germany who have already done so. It's a fun children's book complete with illustrations. If you like it, don't be afraid to review it online. If you don't like it, be afraid. ;)

Thanks,
Jeff

Santa

The littles visited Santa's playland at Crown Center.



We're quite convinced, and have been since he was born, that Oz is one of Santa's elves. If you've seen his ears you know what we mean!

Classic!

Thanksgiving in "the City" 2011

We went to Silver Dollar City for Thanksgiving again this year. It was our fourth year there for Thanksgiving and we had just as much fun as usual!



Gotta stop for free cheese at Osceola (AKA "Cheesetown", at least in our house)



Oz was not too excited to sit with the dancing girls from the saloon show.



The littles wrote their letters to Santa as they have every year from SDC. This year they asked for:

Capri - an MP3 player with earphones
Rome - a play bow and arrow set
Sable - a Minnie Mouse cup, Minnie Mouse bowl, princess silverware and princess plate
Oz - Tonka dumptruck








Rome was called up to the stage for the Frosty show. He was so cute about it and did a great job.





We got hot chocolate both nights we were there, it was definitely a favorite part of the trip - walking around in the cold drinking hot chocolate and seeing all the beautiful lights and decorations.



Thanksgiving! We all ate till we nearly burst.





Oz ate BOTH of those desserts in entirety. I am not exaggerating.





Serious chow down.



After eating we rode some rides and then got in a LONG line to see our favorite show, "A Dicken's Christmas Carol". It's a great show but this year we had the boy monster to deal with. And he REALLY showed his true monster colors during the show. Plus, the actors were all mixed up in different roles than usual and really didn't suit their parts. We also noticed that scenes were missing from our show, later we learned that other showings did have those scenes. It was weird. Even so, we did have a great time watching. Except for the moment when Oz head butted me in the nose really hard. That moment (and the few minutes afterward) kind of stunk.

We had a great time and were so thankful for all we have. I'll post video later if I can find the Flip that Oz apparently stole and hid. I just found the case in a winter boot.



Happy Thanksgiving!

Old News

While life is fine and good here, there isn't a lot of bloggy type new news going on. Here's some stuff that didn't get posted. It's still good stuff, just a little old. Hey no news is good news right? Except this is old news. So I guess old news is also good news.

OK. I'll stop.



Rome finished a sticker chart and got to go to McDonald's for ice cream with his best bud Evan. These two are so cute and have a great time together.



We picked and carved pumpkins.








The littles and I went to Boo at the Zoo.



Capri and Rome sported their old Peter Pan costumes. Sable, Oz and I went with The Wizard of Oz. The costumes for Sable and Oz were Capri and Rome's that they wore in 2006. It was so funny to see them in those costumes. And the wig Sable wore got her just as much attention as it did for Capri back then.




Tink and Peter



This is a true testament to how much Oz LUVS animals. He is kissing the rat. Not chewing on it. KISSING it.







Rome and Oz have been having a lot of good boy time at Edge Gymnastics during open gym. We go every other week when Rome doesn't have his "builder's class" at Lowes.





Sable built an awesome block city all by herself.



Parks are a high priority as we try to take advantage of as much gorgeous fall weather as humanly possible.





Oz continues to be highly kissable.



That's all I've got. For now. . .