Happy New Year!

So I figure I'd better do my New Years entry early in the day while it's quiet. We're just planning an at-home type of celebration with the kiddos - movies and such. Whether you're going the quiet route like us or doing the party type thing I hope you all have a safe and happy evening! May 2008 be a fantabulous sort of year! :)

a Sunday entry

I've been kind of under the weather since Thursday. I had to have a little outpatient something done & I've been in pain way worse than I'd expected since. If I could stay curled up in a ball until it stopped hurting I'd do it. I've also been falling asleep earlier & sleeping in. >< Hopefully that means that some healing is going on or something. Meanwhile, here's my Sunday meme - a Christmas recap one from my friend Kristi's blog...

Best Food: Hmmm, probably my cherry cordial kisses. I did have lunch at Cafe Rio with Brandon. Now that was good. :)

Best Gift To Me: Uh, I guess I wasn't a good girl this year. >< I did claim the Forgotten Carols dvd that Nina got our family. It had been on my list. :)

Best Gift Given: Watching Elijah open his geo trax bridge was fun. He loves playing with those trains.

Best Game Played: Settlers of Catan, even though B always wins.

Best Song: Something from the Forgotten Carols. Let's go with Let Him In.

The Christmas Recap

I hope that those of you reading this little blog of mine had a wonderful Christmas. I was all stressed out, as any less than rich parent would be who wishes they had more to give to those they love.Thankfully, Santa did come to our house and do at least a little bit for our kiddos. It only took me half the night to wrap everything up & put it under the tree. (I would have finished sooner, but we got home from Nina's pretty late.) I did get a couple hours of sleep in before my kiddos wanted to start opening gifts. I really am thankful that they're so easy to please, and that a little of what they needed was ok with them when there was much more that they wanted and plenty more that they could have used. Brandon was a trooper, with hardly anything to unwrap on Christmas morning. At his age I figure it's more important to pick out his own clothes and our shopping trip with him hasn't happened yet. (He had one little thing from us outside of his stocking & the promise of his shopping trip. ><) He still smiled & we all were together - that's what counts, right? We had fun. :) We're still working on being over this latest round of sickies, and I'm still hoping that at some point that isn't December Vern & I will get one or two things off of our lists too. I think Friday is when B and I are going clothes shopping. I'm wishing him good sales and am looking forward to the one-on-one time with him.
Meanwhile, it's late & I'm ready to find my pillow.
'Night! :)

naps, bumps & sugar

Vern & I went up to Eden yesterday to spend the night at a condo with Wendy & Quinton. Surrounded by beautiful snow-covered mountains & a hundred thousand happy snowboarders we hung out, played Iron Dragon, had steak frites and a few too many cream puffs. We made it back in time today for the family Christmas party (Which Ben & Wendy did a great job hosting this year). When I finally made it home I had a fabulous much-needed nap. Woke up to a worried Vern holding an ice-pack-covered Elijah. He bonked his head really hard & is sporting a beautiful purple goose egg. Poor little guy. I'm thinking he'll be ok. Now I'm holding him and sharing some awesome white, milk & pb chocolate covered popcorn that our neighbor made. This neighborhood is dangerous at Christmas with all of the yummy neighbor-treat type goodies that get passed around. I have a plate of fudge upstairs, some hand made orange & mint chocolates, almond bark, chocolate-dipped fortune cookies, peanut brittle, chocolate covered pretzels & this tdf popcorn. Oh my.
Well I'm sorry for being busy & slow at posting lately. Been dealing with my second cold in two weeks & finally doing some shopping. I'm sure everyone else is busy and not checking in as much anyhow. At least that's my hope. While I'm sitting here I do want to wish you all a safe and fabulous holiday season, whatever you may be celebrating.

Aloha

Kirsten has been having fun teaching Elijah to say different things. Two that have stuck and that are really cute are "Oh baby" and "Oh yeah". Today he's running around saying "Aloha". She must have had some fun with him this morning. lol

Sideways

I heard this song on scrubs tonight and looked up the vid. Good song. :) Well, obviously I like it, since I'm sharing it here. (a little secret - I put songs up on my blog that I want to find again easily. shhhhh... lol)
Well, I barely slept last night & have a monster headache tonight, so I'm off to bed.
'Night :)

Good Stuff

Now this is yumminess. So was lunch today at Cafe Rio. And Elijah's kisses. And my pillow in about 9 seconds.
'Night blog readers! :)

Skirting the stuff & sharing a song.

We all have stuff that we think about/struggle with every day right? Usually you keep those things buried somewhat in order to be able to function. Well today some of my "stuff" is at the forefront of my thoughts, making it hard to talk about anything else. I won't talk about it here though, at least not right now. This particular struggle is a very personal one - this isn't the place. Since anything else I could say would seem trivial and unimportant amid my thoughts I'll just share the video for an awesome song. It's yet another older one, but it played last night & I looked up the vid because for me the lyrics are just that good. :)

I should probably just not blog on days where my thoughts aren't available for public viewing, but I really wanted to share the video. :)

Have a happy Thursday blog readers!

Two weeks 'til Christmas?!

We haven't even started shopping. At all. Oh my. >< This way we'll get to hit the stores with a gazillion of our bestest friends. Fun! Ej has been sick again & I've been busy taking care of him. I've enjoyed the cuddles and such that result. Mmmmmm... I love my babe and his awesome cuddles. I do hope he gets feeling better. His poor little nose. :(

I did get to go to kara again tonight. Third day in a row. We got Shade down on Sunday (hooray!) and tried Prince yesterday. Then today we got to start over for the week with just Vern & I on heals. Go us! It was fun. :) Here's a screen of Sunday's shade downing for the 3 or so of you who know/care about the whole WoW thing. ;) You'll have to click for readability.And an overhead shot before I turned off my ui for kicks. :) Well I'm off to work out before bed. Have a great one!

Weekend stuff.

Friday - Forgotten Carols live. Amazing. Awesome. Fantabulous. One of my very favorite things to listen to at Christmas. The live show is even better. Just awesome. :)
Saturday - Girls day out with Lauren, Kori, Wendy, Abby, Kirsten and I. We finally went to see Enchanted. Very cute little movie. Definitely a chick flick but a fun one. Only thing I didn't like were the cockroaches. Gross. Oh, and I ate too much popcorn. ><
Sunday - Today started off well. I made my favorite smoothie for brunch. (In a blender or smoothie maker add 6 oz or so of oj, handful of frozen strawberries, handful of frozen pineapple, 1/2 banana & 2 tbsp your favorite yogurt. Mmmmm...) The only thing I can think of that's on tap for later is our kara run this afternoon. And maybe a nap.

And here's the Sunday meme - a quick one this time. :)

your latest addiction- blistex lip infusion. just. can't. get. enough.
you're listening to- Daughtry.
you're thinking about- Jody.
you're asking santa for- an itunes card. need. more. music.

Chocolate Chunkiness

Well, since I haven't posted on here since Tuesday I feel like I'm supposed to have something interesting to say by now. Sad thing is I don't. So, uh happy Friday blog readers!
Oh, I know - I'll share my cookies!

2 days late

So it looks like I'm doing Sunday's meme on Tuesday. That's what happens when you're tired, busy and not quite with-it I guess. We were gone most of Sunday, spending time with Vern's mom. I'm not sure that I ever fully woke up yesterday. Or today so far for that matter. I do have to wake up at least a little bit at some point today- it's kara night!

Alrighty - meme time!
List 5 favorite Christmas Carols
Oh Holy Night
Away in a Manger
The first Noel
Oh Come All ye Faithful
Still Still Still

4 favorite Christmas gifts
Ever? Well, Vern looks good here... lol
My ring (10 years later)
My diamond/pearl necklace
My kiddos faces while they open their gifts (that counts as a gift to me right?)
My treadmill.
Yeah, 3 out of 4 - he does look good there. ;)

3 favorite Christmas treats
Fudge,
divinity
and a toblerone for my stocking.
2 favorite Christmas ornaments
The angel that I had for 17 years that's on my banner. She was finally replaced this year. :(
My crystal carousel horse.

1 favorite thing to do on Christmas.
I love listening to the Forgotten Carols late on Christmas Eve while I finish wrapping presents & putting them under the tree. We're going to see it live on Friday. I seriously can't wait.

Happy Tuesday!

the white stuff

Happy December! This is what my front yard looked like this morning. The snow is still coming down by the bunches, and my kiddos are still having way too much fun playing outside. :)The grey skies & cold weather aren't doing much for my energy level. I still just feel like sitting by our Christmas tree with a book and some hot chocolate. Maybe I should go shovel the driveway and see if doing that will lend me some energy? The hot chocolate can warm me up afterwards. Now there's a plan. ;)