Princess (and some other random pictures)

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Here is Princess Leia! Kayla says she looks like a kitten off of a calender.

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Princess has the sweetest face and her meow is close to a squeak (she was called Squeaker at the last home she had with her mommy.)

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Here I am with her, trying not to be an emotional mess.

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Here is one of the many action photos I shot this morning at about seven i the monring. She was being easily amused by that twig and was jumping all over the porch with it.

Here are a few more photos to hold you over till I shoot some more.

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And impromptu  Christmas picture by Dad; Nathan closed his eyes. I like my Mickey sweater…

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Kayla doing one of her Star Wars puzzles.

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Nathan in his new Jango Fett bounty hunter costume. Kayla got this for him for Christmas. He LOVES Jango Fett; please don’t ask me why. I’ve got no idea.

It was a wonderful Christmas!!

~Jamie

Gifts from Above

I was really blessed this year; I received many nice gifts, of which I will take pictures of and hopefully will share tomorrow.

Probably fifty percent of my gifts was Star Wars related: I got a Chewbacca ornament, a Chewbacca action figure (I’m a big Chewie fan, in case you were wondering), about a million Star Wars collector cards (old and new). I got a Captain America action figure, and Captain America Stickers. Mom and Dad bought a bunch of movies for us that had been cleaned of bad words or gore or sex scenes, including Iron Man 1 and 2, Terminator, X-Men, Transformers, Braveheart, the Patriot, Thor, Captain America, Die-Hard, Indiana Jones and maybe another film I can’t remember. I even got a old Woody doll, which was really cute.

But the best was still to come.

At the end of opening all our presents, Mom handed me a little box. Inside was an ornament with a picture of a kitten in it. A slip of paper told me that a kitten was waiting for me at Dad’s shop. We all scrambled for the car and at the shop Daddy handed me an eight week old, grey, tabby kitten; all for me. It was a little girl with the widest eyes.

I’d had a kitten on my list but I really hadn’t expected to get one. But as I held the little bundle of fur, my emotions got the best of me and I started crying. I held her so tight and just cried. I was so happy; I’ve been tearing up randomly all day since. We brought her home to live in our backyard. She has a box with a blanket, several toys she just loves, and me to love and take care of her. I’ve gone outside a million times to visit her. She’s explored the whole backyard and Patience has made sure it’s known she is still boss.

I couldn’t think of many names, but I kept thinking of Princess Leia, my heroine of the year. My kitten is now named Princess. Mom says that Princess will go with me to my home when I get married and Dad said that we don’t need to fix her, so when she grows up she can have kittens.

She is the best gift I’ve ever received, the only gift to drive me to tears. I wasn’t even this happy when I got my laptop.

Pictures of Princess to come tomorrow.

Thank you, Jesus, for all the gifts you’ve given me this year and this Christmas but especially for Princess. She’s the most precious thing ever; the first animal to actually belong to me. I’m looking forward to see her grow up with me.

~Jamie

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone… another post should be up here by tonight! Have a great day with your family and friends!

Love and hugs, Jamie

“Merry Sithmas”

~Jamie

Favorite Christmas Movie: A Christmas Story

It wouldn’t be fair to go through the Christmas seasons without getting to talk about one of my most favorite Christmas films ever; A Christmas Story. It’s one of the most hilarious movies I’ve ever seen, hands down. And it remains hilarious no matter how many times I watch it.

It’s the story of a little boy’s daily struggles of life at home while scheming of ways to find a Red Ryder BB gun under the Christmas tree. Part of the hilarity of it all comes from the fact that while we watch the movie, it’s narrated to us by the same boy: grown up!  This is very different, but VERY efficient for comedy.

The boy is Ralphie; the one in the glasses. He’s the one the movie is following. His little brother is Randy; Mama’s little boy and the kid who would starve himself to death because he won’t eat. Then there’s Mom, the patient, understanding parent though able to give discipline–sort of! And than there’s Dad (or ‘The Old Man’); he’s the hardworking, tired adult who’s trying to be a good parent but when things go the wrong he reacts in the most humorous ways!

Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas; but his mom shakes her head and says, “You’ll shoot your eye out.” It all goes great from there. Ralphie leaves advertisement where his mother will see them and than he schemes that if he asks Santa for it, he’s sure to get it. While wishing for that BB gun, Ralphie deals with school escapades, the mean bully, his father’s new prize lamp, getting a Orphan Annie decoder, and family life of a not-so-perfect-family.

Little brother Randy is an adorable kid; if a bit spoiled. Being the baby of the family, Mom is patient and puts up with more than desirable behavior at the dinner table while Dad and Ralphie look on it disgusted disbelief (cue hysteric laughter from all of us). Randy is the one that is dressed up so warmly that he can’t move.

Ralphie and Randy walk to school every day with Ralphie’s to buddies, Flick and Schwartz. The boys enjoy school life together… even when it becomes—difficult. They also share the same fear and run screaming from it until Ralphie gets a belly full:

Oh yes! Scott Farcus; the big bully. Man, is this big kid a creep! He scares them to school and from school; and they run shrieking in terror. Ralphie takes it all until pushed too far and than he lets loose with his own attack!

I don’t recommend this film for kids younger than twelve, but for mature children, teens and adults, this is a super great film! VERY funny and endearing.

Sadly, most of our friends do not like this film; if you’ve seen it and enjoyed it, please let me know!

I triple dog dare you!

Football? Football? What's a football?

~Jamie