Happy Birthday, Aunt Lois!

Hope you have a great birthday!
If you go to my photography blog, you can see more from the Schmerber family photo shoot!

Recipe Blog

I'm starting a recipe blog to help me with dinner ideas and hopefully to get good (also easy and healthy would be nice!) recipes from people. If you want to be a contributor, let me know...and I'll figure out how to do that! I haven't put a lot of time into making the blog pretty yet...eventually.
www.onthedinnertable.blogspot.com

Little Helper

My mom and I were planning all of our Christmas menus and shopping lists and look who decided to help us with his crayons?! So nice of him!

Dit! Dit, Buddy. Bad Dog.

The day before Christmas, Buddy ran away and then proceeded to jump in the mostly frozen lake. The sequential events include a stranger jumping in the lake (to save Buddy? to save the ducks from Buddy?) and the police being called (by the stranger). Eventually Erica and Dady tracked Buddy down and he was put into the shower to sit and think about what he had done. In his typical former dean of students way, my dad periodically gave Buddy lectures before he finally got his shower an hour later. Xavier joined right in on lecturing Buddy as you can see here! Notice the pointing finger. What a bossy fellow...I wonder where he gets that from.

The Haircut That Never Was

We attempted to take Xavier to Nate's barber shop for a haircut, but it didn't turn out so well! Check out the look on his face...you think you are going to put that on my head?? 2nd attempt was with Erica holding him. Look how much happier he was once he was out of that chair! I guess we'll stick to Mommy's scissor haircuts every couple of weeks for now!

Matching

Zoo Lights

Over a month since my last update...oops. I'm going to try to do a series of a little posts over the next week to get caught up. We went to the St. Louis Zoo the day after Christmas and took in the "Wild Lights" with my parents and Erica.

We went into the bird house and were surprised at how interesting it was. One bird (that I don't have a picture of) was really loud and Xavier needed some comfort from Daddy!


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Hopefully, more updates from Christmas break will be coming soon!