Long weekend

Well Thursday I woke up to snow. So Gabe and I stayed home where it was safe, we had a great day playing and taking silly pictures and dancing in the Kitchen, I even made a pie :)

This morning I woke up sick...ugg. So again I stayed home, however I would have preferred to be at work and well.

Here are some of our silly pictures.

Here is to the rest of the weekend getting better :D

Train

Here is a video of Gabe's train he got for Christmas :) I think he like's his Cho Cho. Mommy personally wishes we had more space so we could buy a cooler and bigger track :D I might just be a big kid.

Gabe's point of view

I am sitting here at the table this morning with Gabe while eating breakfast and I told him that after he eats he was gonna go to Daddy's house. He told me that he likes Daddy's house now because Logan feels better. I asked him why and he told me cause Cristy took "it" out of his belly button cause it was making him cry. Who knew that umbilical cords were so dangerous, lol.

Here is a video of Gabe talking on the phone, yes we went back in time a little :)

Christmas an Appendix and the New Year

Well I am just sitting in Patrick's hospital room waiting for him to come up from recovery and thought it would be a good time to blog. I was going to start with Christmas but since I am in the hospital I guess I will start with Patrick instead. Well Last night around 6ish Patrick started having stomach cramps and neither of us thought anything about it. Then this morning things were getting worse so he tried to lay down and take a nap and he decided we needed to go to the Emergency Room I was really hoping that he was blowing it out of proportion but come to find out his appendix was swollen and "jumping" which is a term I haven't heard a doctor use before. I guess he had a stone in it that was clogging up the works so the doc comes in tells us all this and shortly after they are wheeling him up to the OR. they did it Laproscopically or however you spell it. so three little incisions later he has one less part. At least it's not an important one :) so now I am sitting in the room and they tell me it might be another hour, but at least I have my very own room and bathroom and stuff.

Now, on to Christmas since I haven't seen him yet. well I had a total of I think 8 Christmas parties woo it was quite busy. I had a great time and Gabe's favorite toy was can you guess it....a box...lol. Isn't that how it normally goes? Patrick Proposed on Christmas :) Best Gift Ever! Ok well here are some pics for you.

Gabe in his box

New Clothes

Right after he proposed

My Ring

Presents

Gabe's "Computer"

A House with his new blocks

All the boys got Pillow Pets, Wesson got Sponge Bob

Shawn with his MUSTANG!!

Patrick and his Nook

Boys in matching chairs :)

Patrick and I at a work Christmas party

Christmas is almost here :)

: well Christmas cards have been sent. It took me a while to decide if I was going to use a picture I already had or take a new one. Due to time restraints there are pupkins on my Christmas card lol. The boys are cute though :)

: oh the shopping, I just keep thinking that I'm done but it seems there is always another present to buy. I think I'm just down to a couple.

: Lots of Christmas parties, I just keep trying to schedule it out so everyone gets to see atleast some of us and all I have to say is ahhhhhh. I have no idea what is going on. Oh well, I guess it will all work out, right?

: I have taken my final, got a B in the class and there is no more class for 3 weeks. Woot! I am so glad to have a break. :)

: Gabe's new favorite things are M's or M&M's to most of you, Marshmellows, which is really funny to hear him say :) and coco puffs which I recently discovered are made of corn. so they are on the safe list YAY!

hehehehehe I had to this is sooooooo cute

Grandpa Kite

Kenneth E. Kite
Kenneth Eugene Kite of Columbia died Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011. He was 83.

Born on May 7, 1928, Mr. Kite led an adventurous life full of travel, said Jane Stuart, his oldest daughter.

"We always say he had gypsy blood in him," she said. "He was the independent type."

Mr. Kite's wanderlust started early. The fifth of six children, he quit school and left his home in Woodlandville at age 12 to work on a neighbor's farm for 25 cents a day.

Two years later, he bought a bicycle. "He got on that bicycle, rode it to Columbia, and never went back," Stuart said.

He met Martha Sue Nichols in the summer of 1944, while he was working at the drive-in at Ernie's Barbeque, which used to operate on South Ninth Street. She was on a date with another boy, but that didn't stop Mr. Kite from flirting. They were married soon after, on March 3, 1945.

Their wedding day was full of bad omens, Stuart said, laughing.

They had to ford the floodwaters of Perche Creek in a 1931 Model A Ford, blew out a tire, then lost the spare when the lug nuts fell off. An attendant at a nearby gas station sent them across the road to a junkyard to dig out enough lug nuts to make it to the Booneville Courthouse. But the greatest indignity of all was that Mr. Kite had to be accompanied by his mother because, unlike his bride, he was not yet 18.

"It worked out though," Stuart said. "They were married 66 years."

After getting married, the couple left the city and spent two years as sharecroppers on Shanklin Farm outside Columbia. The day before she was born, Stuart said, her mother was in the cornfield, pulling ears off the lowest part of each corn stalk, a process called "shucking the down rows."

It was after Stuart and her younger sister, Phyllis Ann Leach, were born that their father's gypsy blood started stirring again. For years, they moved around the West, lugging the family's horses in an old trailer while Mr. Kite worked as a short-order cook at movie drive-ins in California, Idaho and Washington.

The Kites returned to Columbia in 1959, bought his old place of employment, Ernie's (then Long's Barbeque), and started Kenny and Sue's Barbeque, which they ran for a couple years. After a brief move to Kansas to manage the 73 Diner in Leavenworth, Mr. and Mrs. Kite returned to Columbia for good, and Mr. Kite worked construction jobs until he retired in the mid-1980s.

Mr. Kite spent the last years of his life enjoying his five-acre property on the outskirts of Columbia with his wife. There, he was content to watch his grandchildren grow up, ride horses and raise cows, chickens, ducks and donkeys.

"He became a real homebody. Isn't that funny?" Stuart said. "After all that traveling."

He is survived by his wife; four children, Mary Jane Stuart, Phyllis Ann Leach, Rhonda Kay Bias, and Randy Eugene Kite, all of Columbia; one sister, Ruth Samuel of Columbia; eight grandchildren, Tony Stuart, Chris Leach, Wendy Leach, Brittney Scott, Benjamin Kite, Kathryn Kite, Hayden Kite, all of Columbia and George K. Stuart, of Chicago; and four great-grandchildren, Chad Stuart, Russel Leach, Sarah Leach, Gabriel Scott, all of Columbia.

Two infant brothers and two sisters, Ida Lee Pipes and Allene Pipes, died earlier.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Smith Chapel Cemetery, 925 County Road 416, Rocheport, three miles from the farm where Mr. Kite grew up.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Alzheimer's Association.
 
 

I love you Grandpa

Tree is up :)

We put up the tree as planned on Tuesday. We being Gabe and I.

My big helper

The finished product

The work tree