Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas Day


Christmas was great this year! My family came down and spent the night to spend Christmas morning together. Ed was supposed to work from 6:30am until 4:30 pm, but the guy he is training with right now asked the supervisor if it was OK if Ed came in at 9:30- it was great he was there form Christmas morning. At 3:00pm he called me to tell me he was on his way home!! What a great Christmas present! Here is my favorite present I got this year. It is a HUGE (queen size) soft, warm blanket! The girls had a great time, Quincey loved her "barbie" doll house and JJ loved her "dollhouse" (rose petal cottage) too!!!






The girls loved playing in the snow!!




Quincey, JJ and baby Adalie!




Santa brought Quincey a new pair of roller blades!




JJ playing with Uncle Nate (who is a barnicle head) in her new house!


Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Passed!!!

Just a short little blog today to share with you all my excitement! Many of you know that I took my EMT Practical Exam almost 2 weeks ago with no word if I passed or not. I felt good about taking the exam when we were practicing in my class, but when I got to the testing center, I found out that I only had 9 minutes to take each of the practical tests instead of 10! I knew that on the Medical one I would be fine, it was the Trauma in 9 minutes that made me nervous. I left the testing facility feeling really bad about the Trauma and just knew that I failed it (I did NOT want to re-take the entire thing!!!) Well, yesterday at work, I decided to check my e-mail once more for the night and sure enough- there it was- my results..... PASSED!!!! i celebrated with some of my co-workers last night!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Family Christmas Pictures






Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Amacher's
Jes, Ed, Quincey and Emma J

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Traditions

This Christmas I am looking forward to some of our family traditions, new and old!

Old Traditions

*On Christmas Eve, we always open a pair of new PJ's that our Grandma bought for us. On Quincey's first Christmas, my mom was so excited to be able to give the "grammie jammies" !!

*When we were kids- well I mostly remember when my 2 younger siblings were little kids- we would sit on the stairs from downstairs and yell to ask if we could come up to see what Santa brought. It was so fun to see how excited the little ones were!!

*On Christmas Eve, after we opened our jammies, my sister Stephanie and I, would watch It's a Wonderful Life before going to bed.

*On Christmas morning, my dad would read from The Bible, the Birth of Christ, before opening any presents. My dad will be here for Christmas morning and so I hope that he will do that again for us this year!

New Traditions

* A new tradition that we have started is that my family comes down to my house on Christmas morning and we play games, play with new toys listen to music (and do NOT watch any TV!) all day and then I make a big dinner for our family. This has been my favorite new tradition!

* On Christmas Eve, we go to Ed's mom's house for dinner and presents. She always gives the kids a "sock" her own version of a stocking. Ed's mom puts a lot of thought and effort into what she buys the kids for Christmas and makes it special for each of them.... we love her for it!!

I am excited for new and old traditions alike!

Merry Christmas to all of you- May you all create new traditions this year!!!!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Dance Rehersal

Quincey's dance rehersal was this weekend. They got all dressed up in thier costumes and practiced at the Jr. High School! Quincey and Savannah had a great time!!!

Miss Michelle, dance teacher

The whole class




Tuesday, December 9, 2008

How little they once were!

It amazes me to go back and see these pictures and realize how fast my girls are growing up!! It really doesn't seem like it was that long ago that these were taken! Quincey was just 2 and we were up at my mom's house. She loved to carry those kitties around everywhere!!!









This picture was taken the same year. Notice both of my girls did not have a whole lot of hair!! Quincey, at the time, was going through a stage where she would pull out her hair. During that time she lost a lot of hair. Boy has it ever grown back!!!













Little did I know at the time that Emma J would
become the prankster/joker of the family. I guess that the signs were there early on!!!