Santa Projects

I have been waiting for these Santa Projects. Olivia made this great stocking all by herself.
She also made this wonderful Reindeer necklace. I'm hoping next week she makes an ornament for our tree.
And here we are the letter"N".
Ava needed her snap shot of the necklace too.
Today was a good at school for Olivia. Ava played and colored while she was away. I had the misfortunate opportunity to pick up and clean dog poop and Ava's wet sheets. For Joy!

Home Depot

Gotta love the kid workshops at HD. We attend every month. Today the girls built a wagon and had a great time wheeling it all over our house.

Look at that brave man. His daughter is ready to swing the hammer and he isn't moving his thumb!

This is before Ava wacked herself in the cheek with the hammer... See we are building!

The finished products.

After all the fun at HD we went across the street and made a craft project at Michael's. The girls were in heaven.

Anniversary Recovery

I redeemed myself and made Dave his favorite meal and the girl's their favorite homemade alphabet soup. He bought some bubbly and we ate dinner, put the girls to bed, and then took our bubbly to the hot tub. It was a relaxing evening and very enjoyable. Dave hid a card for me in between the sheets of our bed so I found it when I went to sleep. It was a good end to a great day. I love you David!

5 Year Anniversary

Today's obviously not going well. I thought our anniversary was on the 5th for some reason. Maybe because I kept thinking it's our 5 year anniversary somehow that was transposed in my brain to December 5. It didn't hit me either when Dave was leaving for work and he said, "Happy Anniversary." I think I was still in a sleep coma. So lets just say I haven't scored any points thus far.

Since I was so on top of everything I managed to forget to buy a card, a few days ago I talked Dave into taking the girls to a book reading at B&N tonight which obviously they don't need to go to anymore, and I didn't save any money to get Dave a gift to show him how much I appreciate him. I guess my only saving grace is that our anniversaries in the future can't get any worse.

BUT

In my life there's always a BUT:

I'm trying to redeem myself a little bit. I have laid out a chicken to cook Dave his favorite meal. I've made banana nut muffins with the girls and we have also made sugar cookies that we will frost and sprinkle later for when Dave arrives home from work. I have mathematically figured out that my period will come on Monday so we are safe for the weekend. I also decided to not think about the mortgage for the rest of the weekend and will go back to dwelling on it on Monday. I mean if I have my period anyway, you know the saying, "when it rains it pours.." Might as well have everything negative happen the same day.

So maybe there's still a chance of something good coming from today. I'll post tomorrow the results.

The X-Mas Tree

We put up the Christmas tree over the weekend. The girls really enjoyed themselves and the dogs and cat have too. Everyone's been playing around it. thankfully this year the girls are older and can't cause to much damage to the tree or ornaments. We did lose one today but I checked and the other breakables are now planted on the top of the tree.
Look at those elves decorating their tree. Olivia keeps asking me why we have a tree, why it has lights, why did we decorate it. I've explained a few times but apparently she needs a better reason.
Olivia's pointing at the beloved Star Wars ornament.

School Day

Look at these beautiful girls. Another school day and more art projects to display on the fridge.

Exhibit 1: Santa with removable beard pieces as a countdown to Christmas.

Exhibit 2: The monkey puppet.

Thanksgiving Week

How to begin this very long post... Dave's brother, sister-in-law, and their two kids came for Thanksgiving. Along with them they brought a Cajun Turduckhen (a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken and between all the layers was sausage stuffing). Sounds crazy right? Oh but tastes so good. So here's the first morning Wii session before we headed to Union city to do the IFLY. Everyone took their turn. (Michael is wearing yellow, Jacob is wearing white)

Here we have arrived at the IFLY and everyone's waiting for their meeting to begin. I was getting as sick as a dog by this point. Olivia still had her cough/sneezing/ sinus infection and was on day 8 of her antibiotics. Ava was hacking like a smoker and sneezing all over herself. I was wiping my nose every two seconds and getting very light headed, not to mention my watery eyes. So you ask why did I even go... Well someone had to take the pictures.

Here's the gang getting in their flight suits.

Here's Dave and his baby ready to fly.

Scott, Lisha, and Dave prepare for flight.

The kids. Ava still thinks she's involved at this point.

And they are off and in the tunnel.

Look at my man in goggles. Hot stuff!

Here's Michael flying high.

This is Olivia flying away!

And this is Thanksgiving morning or as I like to call it...moments before my death. At this point I could still sit upright. Scott's tickling the kids.

They ganged up on him.

After several hours we dressed the kids. I'm not really sure why. We weren't going anywhere but it was Thanksgiving. I was so sick by this point our relatives and Dave had to cook their own Thanksgiving.

The turduckhen... Umm turkey good. Umm duck good. Umm Chicken good. Suasage stuffing good. Put them all together and we give Thanks!

Here's the kids table.

Friday we went bowling. I was feeling a little better. All the medication I had taken the day before was still in me and I could breathe a bit. Liv was still spraying everyone with her sneezes and Ava- well she coughed and gagged at the same time. Real Fun. But we managed to make it through bowling and had a good time. It was at this time that I just began apologizing for our sickness to the relatives. If they make it through this next week without becoming violently ill, it would be a miracle. Oh and P.S. Olivia can throw her own ball thank you. As she told me, "Mommy, you go sit down over there please."

Here's Michael and Ava bowling.

The boys and their balls (pun intended).

Lisha and Ava saying hi.

Cousin love.

And since the boys had never had a black jack taco from TB we picked up a few on the way back from bowling. They were stoked and the girls even ate a taco too. (They would have never eaten them if it weren't for their cousins. I've tried tacos before. It's always a no go.)

During Ava's nap the kids helped build a gingerbread house.

And when Ava woke up, they ate it.

The next morning Dave's family flew home, we went to a birthday party at Pump it Up, and then we rested the rest of the weekend. The girls are better now. They still have the deep cough, but the sneezing is gone and they look better. I feel better too but now the mucus has decided to unleash itself so I'm full of wonderful phlegm.

Olivia went to her first day of school wearing her glasses today. None of the kids even noticed. Thank God for some miracles.