Avery is 2!

Today is 2/2/11! Today is my baby girl, Avery's birthday. I can't believe she is already two. I have no idea where time goes. I am so thankful to have her in my life. She has been the perfect addition to our family. I love her so much. Her personality cracks me up. She is funny, playful, and extremely FIESTY. She has already entered the terrible twos, as they say. Her favorite word is NO. She throws tantrums regularly, but you just can't help but love her.

My favorite sentences she says includes "Sit mom, NO brother, I dunno, love you mom, and I want it! Yep, popular sentences from a two year old.

January

January

Jeremy and the kids went back to school.

My work is busy.

I have new hair. (which I love) It's blonde!

I have been running every single day now for a week. I am very proud of that. Trying to get this bod in shape.

I'm planning a baby shower for a friend and Avery's birthday (It's coming fast)

Waiting for W2's! I need my tax return, ok well I want it! :)

I have an urge to go on vacation to Alaska!

Have you ever noticed January is kind of a month where you are waiting? I feel like I am waiting for a bunch of things to come together. So yeah, that's what I am doing as of lately....waiting. hehe. :)

Out with the old, and in with the NEW!

So we got a new tv. I know, maybe not a big deal to everyone else. We have had the same tv since we got married almost 5 years ago. It was nice at the time. Now it looks terribly ancient. We have wanted a new tv for so long, but you know life and bills get in the way for us quite often. We went this morning and picked out a new one. Yay for us I am so excited. I took pictures so you could see how far tvs have come in five years.

Oh yeah, Christmas!

Christmas was great! The kids were very happy with what they got. Santa was very good to them this year. Even though Santa is on a very tight budget. haha. Owen received a Dragon Castle, V-tech motion (gaming system), Rex from Toy Story, Toy Story 1,2 and 3 dvds and his very own cd player. Avery received a Tinker Bell kitchen set, an Ariel doll, a Sit n' Spin, a play vacuum and a Tinker Bell chair that is her size. I love to see the kid's faces on Christmas. It was a great time, but honestly I could not be happier that it is over. Yay, on to a New Year!

Gingerbread House

Remember how I am trying to get in the Christmas spirit? Well, we thought it would be fun to do a gingerbread house with the kids. It was fun. It was also funny to see how badly Avery wanted to eat the candy. That's all she cared about. Owen did really well placing candy on the house. Literally seconds after we finished, the house calapsed and we enjoyed eating it. :)

Getting in the spirit!

Well, Christmas is almost here. Where does the time go? Life has been so crazy lately it has been really hard even thinking about Christmas. I know it isn't just me. I've talked to a lot of people who are having the same problem. You know, not really in the Christmas spirit. I want to feel it. This weekend is the goal. I am going to try my hardest to feel the spirit of Christmas.


Last weekend I tried the same thing. Not as hard as I am going to try this weekend. Anyway we went to Festival of Trees last weekend and I am just getting around to posting on it. It was really neat. I love to see all of the themes that people come up with. It's so amazing how many people dedicate their time in creating these amazing trees and donate them to charity. I just love it. You can tell they are made with such love and great intentions. Everytime I go I start thinking, oh I am going to do that next year. I start imagining all the different themes I could come up with and why I would choose that one. It really was such a fun time and hopefully next year I will be bloging about a tree I have donated.



Avery is ready to go see the trees.














Owen

This is a wave made of Chrismas Trees. Sweet!

Owen's favorite tree. (Toy Story)

Avery pointing to the tree below.

Winnie Pooh

What is happiness?

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure or joy.

(I wanted to write some big spiel on what happiness is, but I kept looking at the answer given by Wikpedia above and couldn't get anywhere. It sums it up, and to be honest I always like sweet, short and to the point answers. The truth is we choose to be happy! I'm just at a point in my life where I am looking at what truly makes me happy.) This blog is for my own theraputic reasons. Please don't judge. It's me ranting. It doesn't always come out how I'd like.