December is OVER

December Is OVER

Thank goodness, December was waaayyy tooooooo complicated. Jan. so far has been nice and easy. My NEW plan is to try and keep my life that way too. Although I don't do resolutions, if I did, I would have to say that I would do what everyone else in the world does. Loose weight, get in shape, simplify my life/schedule. Of course I need to do all of these but hey, I would be like the rest of the world on that too......FAIL. My favorite saying is "If it were easy, everyone would do it...but its not, therefore that is why there are some of us out there who have to keep this world fat, out of shape and busy....That's me.....just contributing to society.....you're welcome.

Ok just kidding, lets get serious, Christmas was good, it was all a big blurrr, it went something like this. Go to work, come home change clothes, go somewhere open presents, eat, load up go somewhere else, eat, open presents fight over toys, load up go home crash, get up the next morning and; Go somewhere, eat, open presents fight over toys, load up, go somewhere else, open presents, fight over toys, eat, load up, go home, crash for 45 min, load up go somewhere else open presents, Yes EAT, Fight with our kids (b/c of course no one got there nap out) fight over toys, and load up...go home, crash and get up the next morning and go to work.

Tired yet, this is a true story only it was much more EXCITING (to say the least) in real life. I believe that it took me until Jan. 4 yes another true story....Jan 4 to actually unload all of the christmas presents from my car because we had to create more space in our house before unloading. Sad but true.... at how we are so spoiled.

Jan. is going to be a pretty lazy month of just hanging out and trying to clean my house up from all of the slacking I did in December....my laundry room is killing me right now. Some of the pics I included are from Christmas morning and Austins bed head, as well as the barn that my mom had made from Pop Pops tobacco sticks (how cool)??? Also are some pics of our New Years Eve get together.

Boys, Boys, Boys

Boy do they grow up fast. And where in the world do they come up with some of the stuff they come up with???? The other day I told Austin " no" and he ran out of his room and pointed that finger at me and said...."Don't you say me no" I mean come on, I thought I had till 4 years old before the back talk came....guess not....And Avery, he is hilarious. We were looking at the photo album from when Austin was little, and I said " AWWWW look at him, mommy is sad because we done have any little babies around here anymore" (and here's where I went wrong) " Avery don't you think that we need to have a baby sister..." and without missing a beat he said (just as serious as could be) " There is no sense in a little sister...I mean we have two boys and that's enough there is no need for a little sister...." Where do they learn these things???? (I think Avery got that one from his daddy, what do you think). It's hard to stop and enjoy these little things in life with everything being so busy around our house. This week has got to be the worst...Monday I cooked dinner for six and Tuesday I have a mtg after work and then Avery's Christmas...I mean Holiday Program at school and then on Wednesday I have a Christmas dinner for work and then have a City Council mtg....Thursday I am actually off work, but have a chiropractor appt., Family Pictures, a catering event AND BRYANS BIRTHDAY, guess he's gonna feel left out huh. Friday is a journey around Perryville, to all of the churches and Saturday is Avery's school Holiday Bazar AND Matthew's birthday party...I can't even remeber whats going on Sunday, but I hope nothing, cause I prolly gonna need a nap. Pray for us to get through this week and stay sain....staying sain.....are you kidding me, in our crazy, wild, loud household with two, I mean three (if you count Bryan) kids running around playing all the time....isn't it great?

December December December

WOW>>>>>So okay I am working on my December schedule, you know how I get. And I really hope no one plans to schedule anything with us because WE CAN'T. We have SOOOOOOOO much stuff going on. Pictures, Pictures again, Meetings at work out the ying yang, training at work, christmas dinners, parties, church get togethers, two school programs, a parade and WELLLLL Christmas..I know this is how everyones December is but geeez I am going to meet myself coming and going.
Everyones good at my house....WE ARE DECORATED....whooohoooo. I have really been putting this off, so finally I broke down on Saturday and decorated, I haven't stopped since. I still have to decorate my pot rack in my kitchen...other than that we are all Christmased out (is that a word????) Ok dont have much time have to get back to scheduling!!!!

More Pics

Okay, how in the world did I forget Halloween???? Here are some pics of halloween this year, along with some pics of Avery's surgery, Thanksgiving and others.

Austin's 2nd Birthday

Well Austin is now two....we've been in the terrible two's for a few weeks now, but for the most part it's only at bedtime. He is into pointing and talking back, whoohooo!!!!! He is sleeping in a "big boy bed" now and that has been a struggle. We had a great birthday party. We had lots of friends and lots of fun in the big "jumpy thing" bounce house.

And yes the picture above is a cake I MADE for Austin!!!!!!

Avery just had his tonsils and adenoids removed and boy was that fun...He's doing much better now and haven't had anymore PUCKING at our house, whooohooo!!!! (ok I know that gross, but think about me having clean it up all the time).

Nothing has been going on, other than just getting ready for the big holidays, not having a CLUE what Santa is going to bring the boys, how sad is that, we need NOTHING. If anyone has any ideas let me know.

Pictures

Yes that's Avery playing tug of war with a snapping turtle.

Our September vacation to Indian Shores, FL