I blinked and they were gone......

The holidays that is. After t2 straight days of Christmas excitement too much food, many gifts and lots of family it is now time to put the tree away for another year. Christmas.. which in our crazy family actually started about 3 weeks ago with one weekend party after another has come and gone again. I love Christmas eve and Christmas day but it leaves me behind a big mess and grumpy over tired over stimulated children that take about a week to get straightened out again.
This Christmas has proved to be no different the kids were spoiled by everyone once again and between the two days we had to make three trips home with presents just to have room to bring the kids home too. It did not make much sense for us to take the presents and leave the kids. Although with Mason whiney and Dylan going down the hill and falling into the snow minutes before church. I admit that idea was pondered. =-)

The kids were up and bouncing off the walls by 6am Christmas morning. All I could think of was WOW and we have three housed to tackle by 6pm... This is going to be a crazy 12 hours. Then it was READY SET GO... and off we were one house after the other enjoying, family , presents, and food. The kids had a blast but it is fair to say we were all ready to collapse by the time we made it to our last stop of the day.
Once we were back home and had fought our overtired children to bed. Josh and I just looked around at the heaping amount of presents and I remember asking him. GOsh where to me start. He just smiled that "I have no idea" smile he gives me and we just dove it. By the time I had untied and twisted more little plastic pieces then once person should have to see in a year. I gave up and went to bed. IT was a wonderful Christmas but it was gone before I blinked........

So I did it again...

Yep. I did it again. I swore I would update this weekly if not monthly nope. I have no updated since Halloween . WOW so much has happened since then. Thanksgiving came and went in a blink of an eye. WILLIAM TURNED 2.. I am having a hard time with that one. I asked Josh if we could have another baby. He told me it would have to be a Christmas Miracle" haha I guess he was referring to my tubal.

Christmas is this weekend and I feel so unprepared for it. All our holiday parties have came and gone... I always use those to practice for the real thing. I remind the boys to say their thank yous and threaten them to never EVER let on if they already have gotten a gift. Mason I guess did not catch on this year to the always be polite. He opened up some socks...... and I saw what was going to happen. YUP. the lip came up the eyes welled up with tears . I thought to myself " GOSH NO DO NOT DO IT" too late. The flood gates opened and my unappreciative child sat there and cried over that gift. ahhhhhh 4 year olds. He had gotten many other gifts from that same person, but that did not seem to matter, getting those socks still made him cry.

So we are again going to spend the week practicing our present etiquette.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

So I have been super busy this month and slacking in the blog department.
We had a super busy yet super fun October. I LOVE FALL. We hosted a Halloween party for the kids which was a blast. They had loads of fun and we had 29 kids attend. We had lots of snacks and games and just an all around good time.

Dylan played soccer three times a week this month so we were always running some where. He had an excellent soccer season this year and ended the season with I think 5 goals...=-)

This is turning into a mommy brag blog hahaha which is so rare for him. If you want me to fill it with traumatic and funny occurrences at our house I probably could think of plenty.LOL

Tonight is Halloween... this should be fun...**note the sarcasm* Halloween has NEVER been my thing. Buckling and unbuckling costumed kinds into the car all night is NOT my thing.....
Wish me luck..

Light a candle on Oct. 15 for babies lost to miscarriage or stillbirth

This video touches me greatly and I post in every OCTOBER 15TH in memory of pregnancy and infant loss awareness.....

What was I thinking???????

So I promised the boys they could have a Halloween party with their friends and family this year. Well we planned the party last month and sent out the invites. Boy things seemed so much easy to plan then carry out. LOL
So the party is this coming Saturday. We have planned games, food, and fun... what we did not plan for is the rainy day that is predicted. I am so frustrated by this because the kids are anxious and we have over 25 kids not counting parents attending.. It is of course an OUTSIDE party. The only thing more insane then planning to have 25 kids high on sugar running around your outside of your house would be having an indoor party. That is not happening. So we are praying for better weather forecasts and hoping for best............=-(

Another Mason story..... 10-4-2010

So Mason came all proud of himself to me the other day letting me know that he taught the dog to SHIT (sit) he proceeded to tell me another 4 times that he can get the dog to shit (sit) on the floor. SHIT (sit) on the bed or he can pretty much get her to SHIT (sit) any where in the house he wants.

I could barely contain my laughter at the way he pronounces the word SIT.....

Gotta love that boy......

FRIDAY October 1st 2010

 





Friday is here and William is so excited to have Mason not have preschool and be home with him today. Mason however is not quite as excited about having William around. As you probably noticed in yesterdays post. I think it is fair to say that Mason would of worked out wonderfully as an only child. =-)