dear fetus,

While I am very happy that you are growing and have a strong heartbeat, I could do without the obscene amount of vomiting you are causing me to endure. Also, you might have enjoyed the last 5 weeks of bedrest, but I have not. With your cooperation I think we can put an end to that in the near future. I look forward to meeting you in person this August.

Sincerely,
Your Mom

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There are a few other funny videos from this same website, about the liberal elite and affirmative action. Check them out!

happy birthday mr. silvey!

Love you, Nate! I'm glad you were born, and I'm glad that you're mine. You make 29 look good.

i love me some

dino nuggets.

And I love my husband
and my kids
and my remote
and fuzzy socks
and text messaging
and commercial free tv
and bottled water
and miss marple stories
and the fact that my best friend's 5-year-old daughter thought that stealing a doorstop from the church would make her "popular and special"

christmas!

And here are pictures from Christmas Eve slash Day. We went to visit my aunt Terrie at the nursing home on Christmas Eve morning. Can you believe Nate wouldn't let me leave Kate's hair like this when we left the house?

The kids on Terrie's walker. They love to play with it.

We opened presents with my siblings early in the day since my brother had to go to work that night. We got my mom a non-leaky faucet. Huzzah!

The boys bought each other shirts. Grant's says, "Ask me about dinosaurs!" Hilarious.

Colin got lots of Toy Story stuff from his aunts and uncles on both sides of the family. He was in heaven.

We opened presents with Silvey cousins that night. Favorite Scott Hiatt got this winner of a shirt for Nate (who was a good sport and put it right on). He's also worn it several times since then. Thanks, Scott!

More Toy Story stuff for Colin.

Sara Lu Hoo. There's a small cup under all that hair.

Colin's new wearable unicorn. A must for this season's fashions.

I scored a sweet deal on canvas prints so Granny got one of my kids for her wall. I also printed a family picture for us.

Now on to Christmas morning at our house. I didn't take a ton of pictures, apparently. I guess I mostly did video. The kids needed to eat their clementines as soon as they found them. Kate took a bite before I even got the peel off.

I guess Nate wasn't so impressed with the apron.

My sister bought Colin some sweet Woody pajamas.

This picture cracks me up. I think Kate likes Minnie?

The pjs are a little big, but still so adorable. Check out that Sheriff Woody!

Aunt Hannah's tent was also a big hit!

We spent Christmas afternoon at Caleb and Heather's playing with their Xbox Kinect. I took some video of various family members dancing, but I thought they might kill me if I actually posted it. Here are some pictures instead. No, there are no pictures of me, and that's because Tia couldn't figure out how to turn my camera on. Ha!

Merry Christmas!