Christmas/BD recap

Here is my re-cap, just so I won't forget.
X-mas eve morning we got up, had breakfast and headed to WR. We got there, dropped the babies off and had to run a few last minute errands. We then headed over to our Nana's house to spend the night. The tradition in my family is that our family ( my mom, stepdad and sisters) spend the night over there, my uncle and his family come over, and we watch old home movies. We used to watch them on a projector, but my Grandaddy has transferred most of them to VHS now. Anyway, we watched some of those, and saw some that we'd never seen before, mainly one of me in a gymnastics recital when I was about 10. I was the hugest kid on earth!!!!

Anyway, I digress.

Christmas morning we awoke and did Santa and presents. The babies had no idea what was going on, lol. They came into the living room ( well they were brought into the living room), and just kind of looked around. William went to some of his stuff and Emily eventually did too. William got a life sized spiderman, Emily got a doll stroller and her very first CPK, Carly. They got many other Santa things too as well as many, many presents. They didn't know what to do or where to go. William was slightly fussy, but I think he was just overwhelmed with everything.

Later that night, we did a mini BD party for the babies. My grandparents and youngest sister couldn't come for their real party, so Kristin made them 2 little cakes, with homemade icing, and we let them have cakes and sing Happy BD to them. William seemed to enjoy his cake, Emily...she wasn't too sure!

We got through the day and spent another night at Nana's. Saturday morning we got up, and drove home to Jax. We then had Christmas with Billy's family, and THEN came home to clean up, unpack and get ready for their BD party.

Sunday dawned bright and early and that was their BD. I can't believe a whole year has passed. We did a Prince and Princess theme, and both had crowns to wear with the Number 1 on them. There were a ton of people there, and they got tons of great gifts. We had a chip and dip party and a wonderful, beautiful cake courtesy of Aunt Christie. Again, the babies were overwhelmed, but considering all of the people and chaos, they did great! They were very grateful for everything they got and even though they haven't mastered " thank you" yet, or any other words for that matter, I hope everyone knew!

So that's the re-cap, in a nutshell.

We had their 1-year check-up on Monday and here are the stats, without percentiles, as I forgot to ask:
Emily - 22.13 pounds, 30 3/4 inches
William - 21.1 pounds, 30 inches
Our little girl is still about 2 pounds heavier, but she is def. not gaining weight like she was. They have both evened out a bit, which I guess is fine.

Ok, all I can do for now! Happy Wednesday!

My snowflake

The ordeal is finally over! We bought a car! After a week of looking, researching, calling, dealing with dumb car salesmen, we settled on a 2009 Acoord. I’m calling it my snowflake. We brought it home Friday night and kept it overnight and then went on Saturday morning and actually made the purchase.

In other news, the random cat that jumped into bed with me about a week ago is now our pet. Billy apparently loves the cat, and refuses to let it go on its way. So it now lives in our yard and on our back porch. It doesn’t have a name yet, I’m partial to Patches for some reason, but we haven’t decided on one yet.

Things are just truckin’ right along here. This time next week, my babies will be one year old! EEEK! My my, how time flies. Just for the sake of it, here is a picture from this very day last year…nothing else to be said after this! Happy Sunday!

Alright, on 2nd thought, I can’t crop one good enough to post here! These were my “sexy” maternity photos, lol…I’ll spare you the actual picture! :-)

Only at our house..

It started out as a regular Friday night. Billy was at work, I was home with Emily and William, doing our normal routine. Billy came home, we chatted a bit and he then he started playing video games ( stupid, yes I know). I started wrapping Christmas presents and piddled around until 11pm, when I went to bed. Billy was still awake, playing games.

About 12:15, I awoke to something bothering my feet/leg area. I thought it was Billy, trying to be funny and play a joke on me. I had been in bed for over an hours, so I was fully asleep, so I sleepily awoke to see what was bothering me. I slowly sat up and focused, and with the help of the nightlight in the hall bathroom, I saw a cat on my bed. Please note: WE DON’T OWN A CAT.

Yes, folks, there was a real live cat on my bed. I shot right up, screamed out/yelled a little and called for Billy. No one came. I yelled his name again. No one came. Emily did start crying however, but at that moment, I just had to know why in the world there was a RANDOM CAT in my house.

When I sat up and yelled, the cat jumped off the bed and ran into another bedroom. I got out of bed and walked down the hall expecting to see Billy asleep on the couch. Nope. I moved on to the computer room. No Billy. I then noticed our laundry room door open, which just HAPPENS to lead outside. I go out the door, and there is Billy, in our driveway with his friend Alex, who had come over to show him some new gadget he bought ( Alex is a nightowl, strange I know). So I go outside and tell Billy, in a not so calm fashion, that we have a cat in the house. He looks at me strangely. Yes, husband, I said it, we have a cat in the house.

So in we go, to find the cat. And there it is, a black and white cat, who is on the young side, in our house, in one of the bedrooms. Billy gets it and places it outside, only after giving it some cheese and milk and begging to keep it inside. I declined that offer.

Seriously, how many people do you know that accidentally let random cats in their house?!!?!?  I will say that everytime I have told the store, twice so far, I have cracked up and I have laughed several times while typing this, so it will definitely make for a funny story. Lol, only in our house….

RIP My friend Galant

I got the bad news today, my Galant has been totaled. I got in a car wreck on Tuesday and I have been waiting to hear from the insurance guy about the estimate for damage. The damage repair outweighs the car’s worth, so they are totaling it and my good friend will be sent to a salvage yard. I feel very sad about this for many reasons. I guess the most notable reason is because we are NOT in a place AT ALL to buy a new car of any kind. So that is stressful.

This was also MY car. I had my very first car, a Celica, when I turned 16, it was 10 years old. I wrecked it 10 days after I got my license. Yeah….

Then came my Cavalier, brand new, 1996, courtesy of my grandparents. I drove it until I got a Mitsubishi…ummm…Montero Sport, for about one month, THEN traded that in when I moved to Jax. I won’t go into the details of WHY I moved to Jax, but getting the Galant was something I did on my own, no help and it was a decision I made on my own in order to move forward with my life here. Anyway, I’ve had it for 6 1/2 years and I like it. Yes, it occasionally gets on my nerves, but overall, I have been very pleased with it.

So, tomorrow I am going to get the tag and get my sunglasses which I forgot, and say good bye to my friend. *sniffle*

Since I’m having a semi-pityparty tonight, I will say that the babies have been having an awful time going to bed lately and it’s very tiresome at times. Both babies screeeam when they go to bed, and many times I move William out in a pack and play and that’s where he sleeps. I know it’s Ok to let them fuss, I’m fine with that, but screaming down to the depths of your throat, that’s hard to listen to. Anyway, I am just feeling like complaining a little tonight, and it’s my blog, so there!!! ;-)

I guess I’ll end for tonight. Happy Thursday and safe driving!

Oatmeal and Mt. Dew

That is what my breakfast consisted of this morning. How am I going to be a good role model with eating habits like this?!!? I'm doing the Dew thing because our princess did not sleep well last night. I can give credit where credit is due and say that she has been sleeping much better lately, BUT - last night she got up about once an hour. I finally took her out of bed between 4-4:30 and laid her down with us, but she wanted to toss, turn, talk and kick for the next hour. Then it was time for me to get up in the next 45 mins, ugh! So Mt. Dew is my drink of choice today!

Life at our house is changing everyday. William has started being mean to Emily. He pulls her hair, knocks her down, grabs her face/eyes and smooshes them in his hands. He rams her with his little walking cart. He steals toys. She does steal toys too, and occasionally will pull his hair, but normally, he is the culprit. We have started having to discipline our little Prince and I have no idea how to do that with an 11 month old! Ideas are welcome!

I can't believe in 3 short weeks they will be one year old. One whole year has passed. We made it!!!

Not much time right now, and no pics to post either, but Happy Tuesday!

Kickin’ off the Christmas season

It’s official, it’s Christmastime!!! Yay! We love Christmas at our house. I’m so lucky to have a husband that loves the holidays, he actually likes to buy decorations more than I do. He loves to put lights up and put the tree up and just get in the Christmas spirit. I get informed every year that “that is our tradition.” Lol, apparently we have traditions I didn’t know about!

Anyway, we got our tree today and the babies don’t know what to think of this new addition to the house.

I have ornaments that must go on the tree every year, so I separate those out first. I have my Big Bird and Ernie, from 1982…those are my special ones. I have ones of my Granddaddy's from when he was a little boy, I’m sure that my great-grandmother made them, Styrofoam balls with sparklies glued to them. I have tons of frog ornaments, some personalized. Billy insists that we buy a Hallmark ornament each year with the year on it ( we haven’t gotten ours this year yet). He has Star Wars ornaments. He likes garland, I don’t care for it much. We both love colored lights. He likes icicles (sp?), and I don’t care for them either. But we compromise, and over the years it’s been fun to see what our tree has blended in to…a true mixture of both of us!

The babies have ornaments with their names on them, courtesy of their Nana, so they each put them on the tree.

And just because he is so sweet, look what Billy brought me – my very own Christmas owl, I looooove him!!!!

It is a happy Saturday in my house!

Floors and hallways

That’s where I spend most of my time on the weeknights. Babies play while I clean up a bit, and then we play in the hallway or on the living room floor. This is what my nightly routine consists of:

We had to move some stuff around in order for the X-mas tree to fit, so we now have a room full of furniture, way too much really. I keep telling myself it’s only temporary, one day the house will be back to normal. It might be a long time from now, but one day…it will be!

Cheers to my fun-filled nights and races in the hall!