Lowe's National Sales Conference

Richard recently returned from his 3rd National Sales Conference in Las Vegas, NV. While its hard on him to be away for 5 days, it was a great trip!

At the conference, Richard won the following awards: 3rd Best Specialty sales, best increase in Internet sales and his store had #1 selling skills for the region. Richard works very hard and it is great to see others recognize his hard work! Proud of his work ethic!

In his free time, Richard hit a few casino tables and managed to leave Las Vegas with a little more cash in his pocket than he went with. Who does that?! Winning!

Winter Pics 2012-2013

Enjoying an unseasonably warm afternoon at the park.

With winter comes flu season.  No fun!  Here Richard and Mason are catching a few zzz's after what was a long couple days of the entire family suffering from the stomach bug.

Too cold to play outside, so we decided to have a campout inside.  As you can see, you weren't exactly roughing it (note the iPad inside the tent).

Grandma Gillsipie always said snow was God's way of saying it was time to make cookies.  So, we carried on that tradition the first sprinkling of snow we got.

Going for a nice cruise in your Artic Cat.

Enjoying a snow day!

 Brrr!

 "Mommy, it's cold!"

Enjoying time with GG on a cold day with a big bowl of popcorn and watching Barney.

 Getting some loving from GG

I'm not sure who enjoys these types of naps the most.  Momma sure does love these two boys!

2012 Year in Pictures

Christmas 2012

(Mason really likes to 'decorate' the tree, which is why all the ornaments are on the top half of the tree)

There must have been some sort of mix up at the North Pole, because for Christmas Mason got an ear infection and two bottles of antibiotics, we think he also were teething, so needless to say he wasn't exactly spreading Christmas cheer.  

After a trip to the doctor, we headed to Joplin to celebrate Christmas Eve with Nanny and Poppy Snyder, along with Brad, Gala, Noah, Addi, Lincoln and Hendrix Moss.  Even though Mason didn't feel great, he enjoyed opening presents and really enjoyed the steak filets that Poppy grilled for dinner.  

Christmas morning, Mason was up very early (like around 3:30 am).  Richard woke up with him and said he kept asking to open presents.  After an hour, Mason went back to sleep and slept in until 9:00 am (Merry Christmas to Mom!).  When Mason woke up, he still didn't feel very well, but was very interested in the loot Santa left under the tree.  Some of his favorites were a kid friendly laptop computer and a remote control Jeep.  

After celebrating Christmas at our house we headed down to Grandma and Grandpa Gillispie's house.  Even though Mase still didn't feel good, he was very excited to play with Jackson and see Uncle Josh and Aunt Paula.  GG and G'pa gave you a Furby and Mason loved shaking it to wake him up and feeding it from the iPad app.  

Mason loves going to Bass Pro to ride the Christmas carousel and seeing the fish, turtles and the alligator.  As you can see, someone couldn't put their candy cane down long enough to take a picture.   

Well, Mason hasn't exactly made friends with Santa yet.  

Pretty sure Santa would have rather have Mason or Mom sitting on his lap, instead of Dad.   

 Christmas at Silver Dollar City!  Mason loved the lights and riding on the train.  He also really liked seeing Uncle Josh blow glass in the glass shop.  

Merry Christmas from the Moss family!

Thanksgiving 2012

*This blog post copied from The Life and Times of Mason Moss

"Mama, I jump in the leafies (leaf-ees)!"

Mase and mama on Thanksgiving at Nannie and Poppy Snyder's.  You and dad played catch in the backyard.  You also had  fun playing with your cousins Noah and Addy, and Nannie and Poppy's dog, Emma.  

Halloween 2012

*This blog post was copied from The Life and Times of Mason Moss

Halloween 2012 was a great one!  For a week leading up to Halloween, Mason was practicing saying "Trick or Treat, please."  While typically shy, we were really proud how Mase put on his brave face and went trick or treating.  His favorite was anything chocolate.  He also really liked suckers.  One house had a bowl of mixed candy and Mase pointed to a box of Milk Duds and shouted "Rectangle!"  

 Even Superman cries for his Daddy.  

 Ready to save the world... Or at least go collect lots of candy.  

 Mason was so proud of his Superman cape.

Definitely my favorite little super hero!

Say CHEESE!

Well, I recently bought a new to me camera.  I obviously have no formal training.  Mason and Richard have learned to run away when they see me getting it out, but before they learned that, here are a few shots they let me take.  Pictures were taken during the Fall 2012.