Gingerich Christmas

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I know we did. We have been re-doing Trinity's bedroom a little bit at a time and last week we painted the walls pink and painted a huge chalkboard on one of the walls. Here are pics of the chalkboard.

Christmas Eve morning we opened presents at our house. We have so many get togethers that this is our only time to open presents without being rushed. Christmas Eve all of the Miller's went to Crystal's for food and dirty santa. Then Christmas morning we always go to dad's for breakfast and gift exchange. Trinity got lots of toys that she wanted and she even made the comment "I'm livin' the good life"! I do not encourage santa and feel like it's a lie but the last couple of years she will see santa at different events and say "see mom, there is a santa. There he is." I would try to explain but she wasn't hearing it. So instead of arguing with her, I just go along with whatever she says. So Christmas morning when she woke up and seen her stocking she said "Why didn't santa come?" and I said he brought your stocking and she said "But I asked for Barbies!" I didn't know what to do then. She had already opened all of her barbies from us. And then I remembered that LeighAnn had bought her a barbie too. So I told Trin that santa must have forgot and took it to papa's house instead. I called LeighAnn real fast and had her change the name tag to "from Santa". Trinity never new the difference but next year I will definately have to save some stuff for santa. Here are some pictures of the holidays. Marshall and Breanna are Taylor's step-children and Daniel is Rachel's boyfriend.

Picture Update!

I notice that I haven't updated pictures since October! Here are a few, hope you have time.

I Made It, Barely

Well I now officially have a screw loose! I know, some of you have known this for some time but now I have the proof. Anyway, I made it. For future reference, don't ever do something like this with a local anethesia. I had a nurse that was just wiping tears, it was extremely painful. I don't have a lot of post-op pain, just discomfort. They wrapped my leg with ace bandage until Sunday, and it doesn't fell that well. So hopefully now I won't have some of the bone pain that I have been having. Thought I would give an update.

Here I Go Again

It has been six months since my knee surgery and tomorrow I go under the knife again. I have a screw in my shine that they put in during my first surgery and it has been causing alot of discomfort, so tomorrow they are going to take it out. He should be able to just do a local anethesia, but just in case I have to have general, I can't have food or drink after midnight! The worst part, my surgery is not until 2:30 PM! I don't know how I will function with no drink that long since I am always sipping on something all day, normally a Mt. Dew, so I will probably sneak a couple sips of water. Anyway, think of me tomorrow with every bite you eat and every drink you take!
Trinity is having her first program in kindergarten tomorrow evening and she is terrified. I am sure there will be lots of tears. As long as I can get her on the stage we might be fine!

Our Thanksgiving

We had a really nice holiday this year and I am so thankful for my family. We all had dinner at my house and everything turned out really well. We hung out all afternoon watching videos on You Tube! Dad thought this was the neatest thing he had ever seen and kept wanting us to find another video! We took Jonathon back to the airport Monday morning and we settled back in to our normal routine. My husband John came home from Iowa last night from a two week trip. Hopefully his rotation does not fall over Christmas also. Today we made a trip to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and my wonderful husband decided that we needed a new christmas tree. This tree was really pretty and stood 7 1/2 feet tall and he thought we just had to have it. So we brought it home and began putting this thing together. What we didn't look at in the store was how big around this thing was when fully assembled, try 4 1/2 feet! This tree definately does not belong in our house and dominates the room but we definately have had a lot of laughs! Trinity has found her easter eggs that we hidden in her closet and she thinks that it is so much fun to hide them in the house and have someone find them. I think she is confused about what season it is and cannot see the HUGE tree standing in the corner!

Thanksgiving Already?

It seems like yesterday we were swimming in our pool and playing outside and now Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Jonathon is coming in from NC tomorrow. We are going up in the afternoon to pick him up from the airport and he will be here for two days. My husband John had to leave for another round in Iowa Saturday so he will not be here for Thanksgiving. We are hoping he will at least be here for Christmas. He might have to make another rotation around that time. Anyway, I am heading off to school to sub today. I have been doing alot of subbing but this is good. Today I will be the music teacher at the elementary school. This could get pretty funny because I can't carry a tune for the life of me. I am not sure what I will really do today in class, but I'm sure I will be required to sing a little! Trinity thinks this is pretty funny.

LeighAnn's sister and her family have been in all weekend from Nebraska and they have a little girl that is six also. She and Trinity are big friends so Saturday night I took a car load bowling. We had fun and they really enjoyed themseleves. The two cousins (one is Nicole's age) had never been bowling before so this was all new. It seems like everytime they come, we teach them something new. Two years ago when they were her, Trinity taught the girl her age how to "pop-a-squat" in the parking lot at the park! They are from downtown Lincoln and are not real outdoorsy so this was very funny. Anyway, I need to get us ready for school. I have some pictures but will have to post later. My kodak software does not want to work this morning.

Alot has happened since my last post. My friend that I was talking about ended up passing away the following morning on her 40th b-day. It was so sad. John came home from Iowa that Sat., Sunday I went to the viewing, and Monday I went to the funeral. Then I worked at the school for the next two weeks. Last night we took the girls (Trinity and Makayla) to the movies to see Madagascar 2 and I was a little disappointed. It was funny but not as good as the last one. John, Trinity, and I all went up to the craft show at the high school this morning and then a friend of Trin's came this afternoon. Tonight, John and I are going back to the movies to watch a more grown up film, "Fire Watch". We have heard that it is really good. Anyway, that's all for now.