birthday wishes to the world's greatest grandpa.

It says so right on that cap that Owen gave you for Christmas!  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANDPA CHARLIE!

We love you!

crap.

One of the gardeners just stepped on a skateboard and fell flat on his back.  I watched him go down.  Ouch.  You think he'll sue?

Anybody Catch This?

I think everyone knows that abortion is a big issue for me. Some can look passed it, but i can't. This was more than disappointing.


Nancy Pelosi on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

Is she saying that killing babies before they can become a financial burden is now considered economic stimulus??  Seems like a pretty weak argument, my friends.  

Check out the video here.  

pic from the beach the other day

Messy Face, Messy Jacket

Just playing

Ida's HERE!!

Penny's BFF is finally here. She actually made her debut on Saturday and we love her already.

Check out Jessica's fabulous blog for more pics. (I want to gnaw on her cheeks!)

What she won't do to avoid cleaning her room.

Sophie wrote this poem the other night while she was supposed to be cleaning her room.  She'd do a few lines at a time and by the end I sounded like, "That's the greatest poem you've ever written...now, go CLEAN YOUR ROOM!"

Messy room

Sophie had a frightful mission

Put her room in good condition

Shirts, socks, and underwear

Banana peels, a week old pear

Homework, pizza, melted chocolate

Stuffed inside her blue jean pocket

Now how did she attack this mess?

She buckled down and did her best

Sophie was frightful and Sophie was mean

But in the end, her room was clean

It shined, it sparkled like diamonds galore

Until she opened her closet door

Things came tumbling into the den

And poor, poor, Sophie had to start all over again

Written by: Sophie Chamberlain

Happy Birthday Doug!

Ah, isn't he so cute?

Well, Howdy.

I've recovered from our two week holiday vacation to find that we are in a new year, I still have too much stuff in my house (despite all efforts to purge in 2008) and I am so far behind on this blog that maybe i'll skip the 'catch up post' and move on from today.  Or maybe not. Penny's first christmas seems like something i should document for the Chamberlain 2008 blog book.  

Sooo, here we go.  Warning: It'll be a long-y. (great word, eh?)

First leg of tour de chrismas was up to Utah for a week with Grandma Chamberlain and Doug's siblings. This is the view that welcomed us to Lehi . Beautiful and freezing. So christmasey and freezing. did i mention freezing?



Oh, there were games and food, lots  and lots of cousins, and some really spiritual moments (because doug's mom is a conduit straight to heaven, I swear.) It was all really, really wonderful.  

During the Christmas party we also had a white elephant exchange that ended super great for us because Doug and i conspired and took home this:  (the gift we brought)  

and the much coveted Nerf basketball hoop Rossy brought to the party.   Yeah, us.  

We also read last years predictions and wrote down our predictions for 2009, to be read during next year's christmas party.  The greatest surprise this year was that Scott predicted that Doug would have a baby and name it after a monetary unit.  Wow, he's good!

Christmas morning:

This is grandma's present from Owen.  He picked it out at the December shop at school.  She looks really excited to play it. 

This is where penny opened christmas presents.  on the side of the breakfast table with out her mom, who desperately needed a nap.  the 3 hours of sleep she got before the kids woke up on Christmas morning just wasn't enough.  

Owen's beloved wall-e.  

Sophie got a digital camera. She was really surprised, can you tell?  This is the cute, purple camera's first pic.  (oops, I didn't turn that one. Sorry, soph)

Awesome picture of a collective christmas morning coma. Need sleepy. 

We also got to see some friends we haven't seen in a very long time. We had dinner at Bombay House with the powell's, the hatfields, the christensens, the jonssons...of course, no pics but delicious food and great conversation. 

And then went up to SLC to see the Pias.  Oh, how we love the Pias!  They're the people you've known forever and rarely see but when you do it's like no time has passed at all. So much fun! We got there at 9pm and left at nearly 1am. So, i guess we had a little bit to chat about. Highlight was the Twilight spoof Julie pulled up on YouTube. I nearly wet my pants.  Go check it out!   Seriously, right now. It's that funny. 

I'm stealing pics off Julie's blog because i don't have any pics of that either.  ( can you tell i wasn't in charge of the camera this time around?)

Me and Julie

 Mason and Owen - Don't they have the exact same hair color?

Joe, Doug and Penny.  She was slightly naughty that night. 

Berkley and Sophie -  Aren't they cute? 

All the kids were great, actually.  I never liked it when my mom and dad made us play with random kids i didn't know. But these guys played like we lived down the street. 

There are other Chamberlain side highlights but i'll have to post when i get a hold of Doug's camera.  Looks like i'll have to do this in 2 parts, Penny's going nuts. 

By the way, Congrats to Scott and Karin!  they just had a little baby boy this morning! 

Indie Glenn Chamberlain.  Can't wait to meet him.