Back into the Swing of It.

So I've been writing this blog post in my head for the past oh almost two weeks now.  I figured it was time to actually sit down and do it.

Hmm..I just remembered that was going  to be one of my new years resolutions...blog more.  Let me just add that to my ever growing list.  Along with catching up with my other regularly read blogs, I've really got to get on that.  Sorry guys!!  

Christmas is finally over and we are just trying to get back into the normal day to day swing of things.  My house is a chaotic mess.  While all of the decorations are away my house is a mess of toys and STUFF.  I hate stuff...a lot.  I must say my house is looking rather depressing without the decorations up.

 Not only am I trying to get cleaned up/organized from the holidays I now have to plan a birthday party.  We do a joint party for the boys because they were born 4 years and 1 day apart.  I don't recommend it. 

Really. 

Logan is at the age now he wants to invite school friends but yet our house isn't big enough to have a bunch of school friends plus family & friends for the both of them.  I had considered having it somewhere else like Chuck E. Cheese or this new indoor bounce place that opened but there are just so many reasons that I decided against it.  Maybe next year.

That's what I said last year.

 I'm just not into big birthdays.  It would be SO much easier if the boys had been born in the summer.  My parents have an in ground pool.  Enough said. 

Anyway,  Christmas was good.  Everyone stayed healthy and I believe both boys were happy with what Santa left for them.  I have a few pictures but my camera has been taking super crappy indoor pictures.  I'll post some of them at the end.

Ryan actually surprised me this year...well I guess he did last year too with my netbook.  This year though he actually got me something that I didn't think I wanted. 

I got a Kindle 3G Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 3G Works Globally, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology and I <3 it.

A lot. 

  Honestly, I was the biggest naysayer when he came to the whole ebook thing.  I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and I would never have one and I couldn't imagine ever not holding a book in my hands.  Now I will say I won't give up regular books because come on, there isn't anything else like the smell and feel of your favorite book in your hands.  There is also nothing like the instant gratification of an ebook.  I have already downloaded at least 5-10 books since Christmas and I've read two  of them in less than a week.  I can see my ability to download books instantly is going to be more dangerous than my ability to download music instantly. 

Now the ability to be able to download books in an instant wasn't the thing that won my heart.  It was the fact that not only can I read books, check facebook and email (sort of) but I can also read pdf files.  Guess what is usually in pdf format?  You got it... knitting patterns.  How cool is that?!  Now no more lost, wrinkled, messed up patterns when I'm working on a project.  Just get out my handy dandy Kindle and right there it is! 

:::sigh:::

So yeah.  I haven't really been doing much besides downloading and reading my Kindle. Maybe that's the real reason my house is such a mess ;) 

On to the pictures.  Again sorry for the crappy quality.  I'm afraid my camera has bitten the dust.

Nevermind. Now I can't get my camera card slot to work...I give up.  Really.

Yeah...

So, yeah....I was wrong.  I DID get my netbook back and it does work (thankfully!).  Though having it back hasn't helped me get back on track with blogging more regularly OR keeping up with the blogs that I read. 

I think we are almost ready for Christmas here.  The shopping is done though nothing is wrapped yet.  I plan on wrapping on Tuesday...hmmm...I wanted to bake Tuesday too AND go for groceries...not sure I have to rethink that.  I also need to make 3 doz cookies for my MOPS cookie exchange on Monday night.  Hmmm...I'll have to think about all that later.  Ugh maybe I'm not as prepared as I thought I was.  I'm not even going to mention the Christmas knitting I have yet to finish.  Oh wow...no I can't think about it, its making me a little sick.

Why do I do that to myself every year?  I KNOW I need to get these things finished and yet I always wait until the last minute to even start them.  You'd think I'd learn my lesson by now. 


I was going to leave you with a picture of our Christmas tree all light up but ummm...not now.  My house is a wreck and I thought this was cuter anyway....

Cole went to work with me today (gees!  my desk is a mess!).  He decided he wanted to wear his Halloween costume to work today.  He was watching an Alvin and the Chipmunks dvd on my computer and drinking a diet pepsi @@ 

Long Day

:::sigh::::


Its been a ridiculously long couple of weeks.  Actually its just been a really, really long day. 

For starters Cole has been up since 5:30 am just because.  Logan is on day two of Thanksgiving vacay, he is off until next Monday.  And I pretty much cleaned my entire house today after being sick all weekend. 

I did get to Logan's teacher conference this morning.  It was originally scheduled for yesterday but I had to reschedule because I still wasn't feeling 100%.  She had really good things to say and said that's she seen alot of improvement in him even since the first marking period ended.  Not that his report card was bad but just improvement overall. 

I just cannot get over the fact that Thanksgiving is this week.  I just can't wrap my mind around that. Not to mention the fact that Christmas is right around the cornor.  I am so not ready.  I have hardly anything bought yet which is so unlike me.  Ryan and I are planning on going Friday, not early but at some point.  Just hoping nobody else is sick and I'm feeling better by then.  I just really don't know what to buy at this point. 

One thing I did get accomplished for the holidays is ordering my Christmas cards...finally!!  I'm actually even 'early' this year. Normally I don't get them ordered until well after Thanksgiving because that's when I get the pictures taken for them.  A few weeks ago my sil came up and took some family pictures and pictures of the boys.  We have never had family pictures taken, how crazy is that?! 

This is one of them. I love it.  There were alot of the boys taken at our pond that turned out great too. 

I just got notice that my netbook is on its way back to me...AGAIN!  Its supposed to be here tomorrow, I just hope that I'm home when the fedex dude shows up.  I also really hope its fixed for real this time.  I miss having it so much. 

Mama’s Holiday Wish List 2010

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme






TodaysMama and GameStop  are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.





1. What is your holiday wish for your family?

To have a safe, fun & healthy holiday and new year.

2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?

be woken up super early by our oldest son and rush downstairs to open gifts.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?

new living room furniture!!!!


4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?

spending time with family & friends, playing games and watching holiday movies

5. What games did you play with your family growing up?

Monopoly, various card games, Super Mario Bros.

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?

leaving cookies and milk for santa

7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?

I'm not really all about being away from home for the holidays but if I had to pick...probably a cabin somewhere, complete with fresh snow and sleigh rides.



8. Check out  Gamestop and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?


Wii Udraw Pad
Xbox 360 Kinect
Pictionary for Wii

Always Catching Up

So, yeah, I thought my life would slow down once football stopped.  Yeah, not so much.  I feel like I'm on the go now more than ever.  

After football ended Logan decided he wanted to sign up for wrestling.  While it hasn't 'offically' started yet, he has been having twice a week optional practices.  He's been going to all of them not because we've been making him but because he WANTS to.  I've never seen him more excited about something in my life.  Its crazy.  I just can't wait to see if he remains interested in it even when they start really wrestling. 

So, its been sports practice, MOPS stuff (steering team meetings, setting up for regular meetings and the meetings themselves) plus trying to have lunch or something occassionally with my MOPS girls because I miss them when I don't.  I'm also participating in a bible study on Proverbs 31.  It has been really interesting.  A little more indepth than I can go into right now or probably ever care to go into but its still helpful all the same.  Its really helped me to focus on what's important in my life.  Those are the things I squeeze in on the two days I'm home from work along with helping out in Logan's class. 

Logan's class....oh my.  I went in this week to help again.  I'm just at a loss.  I don't agree with alot but I have nothing to compare it with, I don't know what they are doing in the other first grade classes but this teacher needs to reevaluate her situation because she has no control over these kids but yet in some areas I think she's a little extreme.  I just pray we can get through this year without any trouble and move on to second grade.  Right now I am so thankful Logan was placed in all day Kindergarten because I think its the only reason he hasn't fallen behind. 

Then there is knitting.  I have many things I need to finish ASAP.  I got my swap package mailed out and recieved mine, let me find a picture.  It came all the way from Norway, how cool is that?!    

It was a really fun swap and I'm glad I participated, I can't wait for the next one!  

I feel terrible because I haven't been to knitting in forever, now I don't know when or how often I will be getting there. My knitting group meets on the two nights that Logan has wresting practice.  Now that normally wouldn't be a huge deal, but we only have the one car that both boys can ride in.  I have to figure out what I'm going to do about getting a ride to knitting, my one knitting friend has offered to come and get me and bring me home.  I feel bad though because its out of the way for her.  I'll still probably take her up on it because I miss them...alot!

I've really got to get better about blogging again...maybe if I EVER get my netbook back in working order I will!  I had to send it back again the other day because the new power cord still didn't fix it.  The Acer guy and I had it out over the phone.  I will NEVER buy one of their products again, its such a pain.  I'm tired of paying all this shipping for something that is under warranty.  At least when I had my HP laptop I could get it shipped back at no charge. 

So of course with all this stuff to do what is it I really want to do?  Read of course!  I started reading Wuthering Heights the other week.  OMG!  Its my new favorite book.  I can't believe I've never read it before.  I also just picked up Outlander after hearing a bunch of my knitting friends discuss it.   I just want to curl up with it and read. 

 ::sigh::

I'm hoping to get the chance someday...

That's about it for now...

Hopefully I won't take so long to update on everything going on around here. 

 



Playing Catch Up!

Hey all I haven't forgotten about you.  I just really haven't been in the blogging mood lately.  It has become something I feel I MUST do and well that's never a good thing for me because then I just don't do it ;) 

So alot has been going on since I've posted last.  Football is ALMOST over tonight is their last game, the two different smurf teams are going to play each other at the big field.  I will take my camera to get lots of pictures!  I thought we were going to get a break from sports but Logan just signed up for wrestling last week.  Can't wait to see how this goes!  Ryan and I both had talks with him about it NOT being like the WWE and I even found youtube videos of real youth wrestling and made him watch them.  He was still excited about it.  I was really looking forward to a break until baseball starts in the spring but oh well.  At least he wants to try something, I want to give him every opprotunity to try whatever he wants.  Hopefully we will all have a better experience with wrestling than football.  While I love football, the parents had a tendency to be very cliquish and I can't stand that.

Other than that, I've been busy organizing and cleaning my house.  The house that we used to live in was the house I grew up in.  When we moved out I left some things behind and just hadn't made the time to go back and get it and go through things.  Well, last weekend my brothers house burned down so him and his family had to move into my parents old house, so I really had to get my stuff out of there.  Its really amazing the things you find!  So I've been busy throwing things away and getting bags of clothes ready to donate.  I have so many friggin clothes that I don't wear anymore or don't fit.  I REALLY need to go through them all, Ryan's included.  It seems the kids get new clothes every season but neither of us do. 

As for my brother and his family everyone is fine.  Nobody was home at the time so nobody was hurt or anything but the house was destroyed.  So they are busy getting back on their feet. 

On the knitting front I have sort of stalled out.  I was moving along on an item for the Halloween swap I'm doing on Ravelry.  I got that finished and its currently blocking (will take pics tomorrow!)   I'm planning on getting the package in the mail tomorrow. 

This is the yarn I'm sending.  One of my friends from my knitting group has opened her own Etsy shop for her hand dyed yarn and other knitting things.  She does some amazing work and I am convinced she can dye anything :)  This picture doesn't do this yarn justice...I'm not  a big fan of your typical black/orange halloween colors but what she did with this yarn...I love it.  I honestly want to keep this whole package for myself.  I'm going to have a hard time sending it out tomorrow.

That's about it for now.  I'm sure there is more I'm forgetting about but I'll remember later :)

Fall Fun!

Yesterday my mom and I took to the boys to a local orchard's fall fest...have more pics to upload later!