Adelle's 1st Birthday Party at Grandmas

Happy 1st Birthday Adelle!!!!

The" Wheres Alena Game" that Sebastian most absolutely enjoyed

Adelle eating her icecream birthday cake

Mmmmm......Birthday cake

Christmas at Grandmas....2007

opening presents!

Alena feeding mashed potatoes to a teddybear

Katie and Lindsay playing the Piano together

Uncle Rich and Adelle

Alyson and Alena

Sebastian hugging Alyson and Alena

Time to open Presents

Sebastian had a most exciting time opening his presents

Seb opening some playdoh and wearing the slippers he gave me

Seb relaxing and watching a Movie

Seb watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Grandma opening presents

Grandpa opening presents

Sebs favorite present was his crash race car set

from Grandma and Grandpa

Seb got some fun and new exciting bath-tub toys

Seb enjoyed a new squiggle pen he got for Christmas

Seb opening all the little goodies from his stocking

So I bought this fake kitty toy for Adelles B-day and Tedly was
totally scared. I wish I could've got a pic of her with her tail puffed up

we tried and attempted the GingerBread House and it was

unsuccessfully completed but It was tastey according to Sebastian

Seb posing in my heels one of Adelles bibs and a flashlight

Seb LOVES playing in the boxes that his diapers come in

Christmas with The Burnsides:)

We have been blessed

So, we had a acouple of scares lately with our house. For the past 3 weeks I have not been able to shake this scary feeling about our house. I could'nt figure it out. Anyhow I have a mini-heater in our room and one night it began to smell like burning so I turned it off and the cord was hot. We went and bought another one. I decided to test it out on another outlet which actually sparked fire, smoked smelt like burning very strongly. The same night I went to get something from the living room and turned on the switch which buzzed and then smelt of electrical burning very strongly. So, It was a rather sleepless night that night but I told Dad and Mom what had happened and that I was afraid for our house. They called an electrician who came that morning and repaired the dangerous outlet in my room and the switch in the living room. He also said that the whole house needed to be rewired asap. The crazy thing is that appaerntly he had been called to our house about a yr ago for our wasing machine and remembered telling us the same thing then. He also said that every outlet and switch need to be accessable and they chrge extra to move furniture. So we have until the beginning of January to move everything because he was leaving for vacation and we felt it would be right to have him repair the house. Lesson learned.......sound advice we should have listened to a year ago. Anyway, at least we figured that one out, but I kept having that bad feeling again. Then last night, Rich went to replace our thermostat with a new one but did'nt have the right tools at the time so he just put the other one back. I went to turn the heat on and it clicked but nothing fired up. Dad called PG&E and they thought it sounded just like the pilot light went out so they gave us an appt. the day after xmas. I asked him If they could move it up and he said only If I could be home. So we called back and set it up for their 1st available on Thursday. Mom and Dad went to go to bed and I passed the furnace in the hallway and YIKES! I could totally smell gas!!! So I told them and they called PG&E back and they said they'd send somebody out that night. The technician got here around 12:30am and said It's probably just the pilot light. Then he realized that the gas valve was not closing it was staying open which means that It will and probably has been leaking gas. So he capped off the valves and recc. top find a heater repair dealer to come fix it. So we are SOOOOOOOOOO greatful that the tech came by and shut it off and capped it off. We are a bit cold today but an insignificant price to pay for our own safety:) We are so greatful that our house will be getting the proper and necessary repairs it has sooooo desperately needed. My hands are like ice right now but it's okay....:)

Sebastian

Sebasitan was excited to be just like Grandma in one

of her old tap-dance recital hats he found!

Blast from the Past

Some old drawings I found from HighSchool.... I Loved drawing portraits and was a huge fan of surrealism