I am so glad it is OVER!

Can you tell Christmas was just a little stressful? I started out the season saying I was not going to get stressed out this year, and get all of my stuff done early. Well, as my earlier post said, I am pretty good at putting things off so I was really stressed. Then we pack up the boys and off to grandma's house we go for Christmas Eve, we all had a great time and everyone was feeling much better. Matt and I got the boys in bed and ourselves in bed by 2am (which was better than last year) then as soon as my head hits the pillow I start to feel really sick. That was all she wrote for me the whole rest of the night. I was able to walk out with the boys that morning and lay on the couch while they looked at their stuff, and then back to the bedroom I went. My poor father in law came over and Matt had to cook him breakfast since I had told him I was going to fix this really nice meal. So I spent my first Christmas night ever by myself while Matt took the boys back to his mom's for their Christmas gathering with his sister. Anyway, I later found out that I infected Matt's Grandpa, Dad, and Cousin with the stomach flu, and I really feel bad about it, but I had no idea I was sick until a few minutes before it happened! Matthew ended up getting it about two days later, and was up all night puking, oh the fun of the holidays! The boys did love their toys that Santa brought them. They got a batman cave and speed racer cars among many other things. I am a little sad that I have no actual pictures of Christmas though, just a video and I am sure that probably didn't come out well. Well, enough of my gripping about Christmas! I am so happy it is a new year I love a good fresh start! I need to go check on my husband that just informed me he is getting sick, I will blog later.

The procrastinator of the year award goes to......

Well, I am famous for waiting to the last minute for everything, including Christmas wrapping and present buying. So it is 9:44am on Christmas Eve, and I still have wrapping to do, batteries to buy, cookies to bake, and a spaghetti bake to make! Why I do this to myself I will never know! It is not like Christmas doesn't fall on the same day every year, so I have no excuse for why I am not prepared and enjoying a relaxing morning with my children. Well, tomorrow it will be all worth it to see the faces on my boys when they walk down the hall way to see what Santa has brought them. I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas, and I will post pictures of Christmas morning as soon as I have them. I guess I should stop procrastinating now and go cook my spaghetti bake! Merry Christmas!

Only a few days left!!

Christmas is only days away now, although in my boys minds, it is years away! They are certainly ready for a visit from Santa, and quite frankly, so am I ! This time of year they start to get board with their old toys, and they are ready for something new to play with. We don't buy them toys through out the year so their birthday and Christmas are really bit events for them. These last few days before Christmas are always busy for us. We had a Christmas party on Saturday that we went to, and tomorrow is our play group's Christmas party. Also tomorrow night some good friends of ours are coming over to visit. Then Tuesday I will have to do some grocery shopping for stuff to make for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Wednesday we will have our Christmas Eve party at my Mother-in-laws house. So a little crazy over here, but at least we will pass the time before the big day. Oh, and the big news of the week is that we got a plasma big screen TV! Matt is a very happy man. Well, I need to go wrap something and then off to bed!

Snow Day!

Here are the pictures of the boys playing out in the snow today! I have to admit that I am a little kid when it comes to snow, I just love it! Especially here in Nashville when you don't know if you will have any snow during the winter. The boys were excited when I let them go out and play in the snow after MOP's today. My cookie exchange was still on because most of the childcare workers were still able to come help. I went with my 16 ugly cookies and exchanged them for a lot of really nice cookies:) So the day turned out nice with a good time with my MOPs friends and a really fun snowball fight with my boys. I really wanted to make a snowman but the boys just wanted to throw snowballs. I guess I need to borrow someones daughter if I want to make a snowman:)

It's being to look a lot like Christmas....

We got our first snow today! That is right you heard correctly, Nashville has its first snow on December 11!!! I have lived here in Nashville for five years, and have been coming here for eight, and I never remember it snowing before February. So I am feeling in the Christmas spirit now with the pretty snow outside. The boys did not seem really excited about it though, probably because I wouldn't let them go outside and play in it tonight. The only downside to the snow is that they closed school tomorrow, and that means my MOPs group won't meet for our cookie exchange. I wish I had known that it was going to snow so I wouldn't have made 3 dozen cookies, well only 16 of them were edible, but that is another story:) I guess I am not the baker. Matt says I should get our friend that is a great baker to make my cookies next year and she could be my "ghost baker". Not such a bad idea! Well, I hope the snow is still around in the morning so the boys can go play in it. You never know in Nashville if you will see snow again or not. I will post pictures if we get to go out in it.

Christmas Decorating

I have gotten most of my Christmas decorating done except for the most important part, THE TREE! Matt is working on the rental house this whole weekend, so I have to find a time that he can spend helping us put up the tree. I was going to buy a new tree this year since our current one is quite small, but I have decided against it. My MIL has a nice big tree that she is going to give me after this Christmas because it is too much for her to deal with. So if I can just get over not having a great tree this year, hopefully next year we will have a nice one. I still need to put the lights up outside too, I think I might try to do that tomorrow while the boys nap. It is just so darn cold outside I really dread doing it, and since we were at my parents house for almost two weeks, I missed my opportunity to put up the lights while it was still kind of warm outside.

Here are some pitures of the boys helping my mom put up her tree in VA, they really had a good time with it!

Pictures from our trip!

Here are some pictures from our trip to VA. We had a great time, now we are back home and the real Christmas fun begins!