Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas

We had 5 Christmas gatherings, and Mason & Braelyn made quite the haul! So on Monday we cleaned out old/broken and mismatched toys and brought them to the Goodwill.  You can only see 5 garbage bags in the pic, but one is hiding underneath on the left, and after I took the pic, I added one in that open space and threw one in the back seat.  Even after getting rid of the 8 bags full of toys, the kids still have plenty to play with. In fact I think they like this better because they can actually find what they're looking for, and the upstairs isn't so cluttered (which I like). 


Mason likes his new work bench set he got from his Aunt Sonja, along with some power tools from Santa!

Santa brought Braelyn a playmat...she's not sure what to do with it.

Mason & cousin Skyeler

Mason kept getting games for a Wii (a gun for hunting games, steering wheel w/ mario kart, & some games), even though we didn't have a Wii.  He was starting to get upset because we kept teasing him about it, but finally he opened his present from his Godmother, Jenny! He got his Wii!

The kids doing Cheers! Yes the boy on the right is a KID, he's just in disguise!

Marshmellow gun was a hit!

And so was the DS from Shilice!

Leaving cookies and milk for Santa

Christmas Morning presents from Santa

Mason and cousin, Ava, with their matching Pillow Pets

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I'm Back!

Well, only temporary! I borrowed my sister's laptop again until she needs it back.  I will break down and buy a new computer after Christmas.  (that is, only if Santa doesn't bring me what I asked for!) 

This past weekend we had a get-together with Shane's highschool graduating class at JP's, which was alot of fun.  We missed his 5 & 10 yr reunion because of racing, so we were thankful they planned this one over the winter!  And speaking of racing (or lack thereof), I thought for a moment that Shane was in need of medical attention when he asked me the other day if he should quit racing.  His reason for asking was because every year when he gets laid off, he works damn near every day in the garage putzing on his cars, and this year he says he can't even stand to look at them!  I knew 2 days later that it was a short-lived thought as he planned a race trip to Arizona for mid January! :)

So back to what we've been doing.. the following day we had Christmas for my mom's side.  This was the first Christmas without Grandma, as she passed away 8 days prior :(  We've been doing a little snowmobiling (well, the boys have), and me and Braelyn have been shopping for Christmas gifts.  Which reminds me, I still haven't got her anything yet :/  I've sort-of (like big-time) been the grinch this year...I didn't put a single light up outside, or even mail out Christmas cards.  I did put up a tree, and that was the extent of my decorating this year.  But thank you to everyone who sent us such great Christmas Cards, and sorry I'm not sending one in return!


 And we have SMILES!!



 The Raider Shane fixed up.

 Just relaxin'

That's all for now, I better get going before the baby wakes up!  Yes, it's 10:08am and both my kids are still sleeping.  I hope I don't jynx it by saying that Braelyn is an excellent sleeper!  She's out around 9pm, and well, today (& most days) is still sleeping past 10am.  She did get up to eat at 3:30am.  But I'm very fortunate for the sleep I do get!!  Mason on the other hand, I don't know why he sleeps so much.  He doesn't take a nap anymore so maybe 12 hours of sleep in the night is normal.  Some days (most days) I wish I could sleep in as long as they do!!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Temporarily Out of Order

being that my computer took a dive i wont be posting for a while. i was borrowing my sisters but she needed it back so this post is from my phone... i do normally use capital letters and punctuation but for some reason it wont let me. needless to say im hoping santa receives my wishlist of a new laptop. whatever did we do before technology. insert question mark. one would think id have so much free time without a computer being in our house. nope. now i attempt to use my phone as internet and it takes 5 times as long... however i do limit what i go on here for now. i used to google everything from recipes to kids crafts to baby questions. now its on a need to know basis. which isnt any fun. so im off for now and wont know when ill be back again. insert sad face.

merry christmas to all.