Frosted cookies

Every year at Christmas, Todd only requests one type of cookie - lemon sugar cookies with frosting. It takes me the better part of an entire day to make them, and he takes the kids for the entire day in return. Ah, peace!

Christmas with the Flanagans

We are so thankful to have such great friends! Here is a little glimpse at our Christmas celebration with my godson, Drew (and his parents, our friends)! The kids were so excited about their new toys!

Long time, no blog!

It's been a LONG time since I wrote anything, but I don't really apologize. It's been a ROUGH few weeks around the Lopez house. We've had flooded basements, lots of infections, a suspected kidney stone, and that's only to name a few! We're hoping that February brings a much smoother remainder of 2010!!

In the mean time, let's go about a month backwards. Here are a few pictures from the kids' Christmas shows at school. Super cute!

I don't *know* Margo!

Last night was the 17th Annual National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Christmas party. It was also the 20th anniversary of the movie's release, so most everyone came dressed as their favorite character. There's nothing like great friends, plenty of alcohol, and tacky costumes!! I hope that everyone else is having just as much fun celebrating the holiday season!

Part of the gang

Todd as Cousin Eddie - "Shitter's Full!"

Brad & Sarah as Todd & Margo

Bill and Todd as Clark Griswold and Cousin Eddie

Merry Christmas!

Here's a sneak peak at this year's card, with pictures of us in snow, just like Todd wanted. He's lucky that Mother Nature cooperated. Although, if you ask my mother-in-law, I think she'd say that Mother Nature has been a b*tch this week!! They are seriously snowed in up there! Thank goodness we got out when we did :)

Greetings from the North Pole!

Ok, so it's really not the North Pole... it's actually Rockford, Illinois, but I swear it's cold enough to be the North Pole! There's snow and temps below freezing and everything! Aside from a late night urgent care visit and the slowest 24 hour CVS ever, it's been a great trip.

Here are a few outtakes from our (numerous) attempts at pictures for our Christmas card!

Baby it's cold outside!

Just some of the pictures of our trip out to the midwest the last week... We went to Kaney Jet center with Grandma and Grandpa where we got to climb in a 737. We went to our favorite Rockford restaurants and saw several of our favorite Rockford and Milwaukee people. We even got to check out their brand-spanking new Urgent Care and 24 hour CVS! Brett (the kid who never complains of anything) had an ear infection! We headed up to Milwaukee to catch the Marquette versus NC State basketball game, even though the outcome wasn't what we wanted! And, we got to catch up with the Mularski family. We tasted some Miller beer, had some not-so-strong Gin & Tonics and some stronger-than-ever Mojitos! We even go to play in the snow!