Ni-Night

We finally took the plunge and got a DSLR camera!!  Yay, Yay, and Yay!  Its my 35th birthday present that we got late so we could find the best deal, in true Perz style... I think Mike is more into it than I am, which I love.  So we had to try it out tonight!  Here are our first pictures... how great are they?!.... the handsome little man and pretty girl help.

 Make a silly face, Pete!

Oh, Hi, Lily!

Trying out the focusing abilities :)!

 I've been wanting to document some of my favorite parts of our bedtime routine.  

After the hygienic part ;), we gather on Pete's bed and Mike takes over.  We do prayers... Mike prays then we do 'God Bless....' and say the people we are thankful for.  

 Then Mike tells stories.  These remind me a lot of my Dad or my cousin, Matt (Hi, Bettie!)...

Oh, the stories.  He just makes them up (I am so thankful for this talent of his, I have nothing left at this point).  Most common characters are:  Jip (Pete's dog), George (Curious George), Petunia (Lily's pink dog),  Clove (our cat), plus any of the 4 of us.  Stories often involve: trash trucks (of course), trips to a creek, playing ball, a big mean dog (but Jip protects Petunia), 'kitty stuck in a tree', airplane trips to CO.  He's adapted these, added in stories that address things we are needing to work on... ie, we don't lay on the floor when its time to leave a place we like.   The current favorite is the story of the 4 of us going to drive race cars.  We each pick the color of our car.  Lily always wants purple and Mike always spins out (and they like the noise that goes along with that) and P&L tie for first place.  ;)  Then he always ends with 'The Good Shepherd'.  They love adding in all the places the shepherd has look for the lost sheep ('by the tractor') and talking about what the lost sheep's name is ('Randolph', 'Gandolph').  Then someone picks Lily up and 'carries her back to her flock'.

 Sweet times!