The girlfriend!

Well last night's Christmas Padgent was a huge success. Tanner sang in a lot of songs and both kids are quite the little hams ( I am not sure where they get that from really) :) I have not downloaded my pictures...really Thank God for Ms. Julie. But I thought I would share a pic of Tanner and his girlfriend.

This is Hope...aren't they so cute? Anyway, Hope and Tanner are "officially boyfriend and girlfriend" per Tanner as of this last week. He also told me that lots of people are breaking up but not them :)

Well another thing is when Tanner came home from school wearing his glasses for the first time I asked how it went and he indicated that everyone laughed at him...but not his girlfriend..she didn't laugh. And not two other people either. I have to say I was a bit suprised that kindergarteners even know to laugh at kids that wear glasses :(

Anyway, I will try to post the rest of the padgent pictures soon.

Thanks for stopping!

Tammi and the boys!

Christmas Festivities....

As promised we had a little Christmas Gathering and here are some pictures of the fun. We ate, drank and were Merry....even watched some episodes of the office. ( Nothing says Christmas like the Office)





These pictures are compliments of Ms. Julie because I have not downloaded my pictures yet.

This cake was Red Velvet and SOOOO Yummy!

The kids loved singing Happy Birthday to Jesus.

Ms. Julie brought the cake which is appropriate because my kids always thinks she bring cake!

Evan in his Nerf gear that Ms. Julie and Mr. Russell bought him for Christmas

This was a HUGE hit ( for the big kids too)

Tanner Action pose

The whole gang..

(L-R Tanner, Mike,Evan, Russell, Julie, Nick, Natalie, Brian, Me and Tim)

Today is the kids Christmas program at school and Tim is the parent teacher volunteer for the day at Tanner's school. Tanner is very excited to have his Dad be at school with him. I will post some more pictures of the show when I get them.

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Much love!

Tammi and the boys!

As promised....

Little bit decorating the tree
Tanner

With the tree

I let the boys decorate the 3 rd tree in the house... they just love decorating...so why not!

I stole a few pics and one shows how cute Tanner looks in his new glasses!

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This is such a busy time of year but I LOVE it! I am so excited. We are having a small get together tonight so I will try to post some pics of that.

Much love,

Tammi and the boys

Amblyopia---

This is a bit of a public service announcement for all of my fellow moms out in blog land. I know most of my readers are moms and I think this information can be very important.

Tanner was recently diagnosed with Amblyopia. This is commonly known as " lazy eye". Many of us may think that you would notice lazy eye but for Tanner this is how it unfolded....

Tanner had a preliminary vision screen in his Kindergarten classroom and when he did he was slotted to go to the nurse for a vision screen. When you get information from a 6 year old... this is what you get..."Mom and Dad I see different out of one eye then the other...like if I cover up one eye I see different then if I cover up the other eye" Tim and I were not sure where this all come from ( he did not mention the eye testing) So, next step 2 days later I recieve a call from the nurse indicating that he failed his eye testing. She explained to me that he cannot see out of his left eye....So off to the pediatrian and eventually the eye doctor and fast forward to where we are today. We are doing some patching and hoping that we will be able to get something going in his left eye. The Dr. believes he has some vision it is just that the brain has shut off messages from that eye because it has gone on for so long. As it stands right now Tanner cannot see through binoculars or a telescope or a view finder or see 3D or have any depth perception. I am sad it took so long to catch this but I am so happy that we caught it at all.



This had made both Tim and I realize how amazing our little guy truly is. He has become quite the hockey player he is being put with kids much bigger and older then him and he is skating great and scoring a number of times everytime he plays. As far as school he is doing great despite his vision. I am growing more concerned that when we think he is reading...he is in fact memorizing. At least now we know what to watch for and he is doing vision therapy ( patching and such) and he will also be wearing glasses. I am hoping this will all make a difference in his world.



My only message here is ....Take your kids to get thier vision checked by an eye doctor. This could have been caught as early as 6 months old. I never knew this. Because Tanner's "lazy" eye is not noticable by appearance it was missed.



The patching is hard work and he gets very upset and frustrated but we continue to try and pray.



I will post some pictures soon of how adorable Tanner looks in his new glasses. If they make as much of a difference in his vision as we hope it might change his whole world or at least the way he sees it.



Thanks for stoppin' in and checkin on us.



Much love,



Tammi and the boys

Tanner's wish

I thought this was sooo cute! This is what I pulled out of Tanner's backpack today. I hope that you can read it. It says Tanner's wish is Uncle Matt lived closer and complete with a drawing of him and Uncle Matt. Melts my heart. More to post but gotta get the Christmas cards in the mail...and Year without a Santa Claus is on and that is my FAVORITE cartoon Christmas movie.

Love to all!

Tammi and the boys!

Hobbyin'

Maybe it is our age sneakin up on us but Tim and I have takin to Hobbyin'. Tim has been doing a lot more with his airplane hobby which the kids LOVE. He has takin to some ameatuer aerial photography.... I am hoping he will let me post the video that he made at some point...it is pretty fun! If nothing else you get a good view of my neighborhood.

Anyway, I have taken to stampin'. I am really enjoying it and I never thought I would. With the help of my friend Julie I have made my Christmas cards... they are done and should be headed out in the mail in the next week.

I am glad we have hobbies... I feel I am starting to have more time for it now that the kids have thier activities and thier time spent doing what they want.... yes my boys are growing up :(

Okay more soon... just wanted to pop a post in just in case anyone stops by.

Take Care

Tammi and the boys

Tree hunting

Look what we found... After much searching we found.... our Christmas tree. We had a great long weekend with Uncle Matt and one of the things we did was head to a local tree farm and cut down a tree. We had a blast!!!

The winner
Token family shot

Just the boys

This is how we found the tree farm...

Evan riding in the sled... :)

It was a fun time and no so cold and windy so that was a nice change from years past. The house is all decorated. Tim outdid himself on the outside.. I love Christmas time! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by!

Tammi and the boys!