Happy Birthday Matthew and Jackson!!

My sweet boys are growing up, today they turned four years old! It has really been a nice birthday for them. They opened up their presents from Gran Debbie and Poppy this morning and played with them until it was time to eat lunch. Then they opened up their gifts from us, and they were thrilled to have new bikes. They both helped Matt put them together and then we went out to do a test ride. It seems Jack is catching on really fast, but Matthew is still trying to get used to the brake on the petel. Matthew was pretty tired too, and needed a nap so that probably didn't help matters much. So I got them both down for a nap so they could be rested for their birthday dinner at Red Lobster. Yes I know Red Lobster is a strange place to take four year old's for their birthday, but they both said that was were they wanted to go! What can I say they love seafood! So the boys had a great day, and are looking forward to their party tomorrow at Monkey Joe's.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Ok, so Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday by a long shot, or my husbands for that matter, but today turned out nice. I got my hair cut this morning, and Matt had a nice Valentine's Day card and present for me, along with a card from my sweet boys. All in all this turned out to be a nice low key Valentine's Day.

Tomorrow is Matthew and Jack's birthday, they will be four years old. I almost started crying tonight tucking them in their beds thinking about how they won't be toddlers anymore. They are so excited about turning four though, I think they are half expecting to wake up 6 feet tall in the morning :) Hopefully they will have a nice day tomorrow. We got them bikes for their birthday so they will get to open that and presents from my mom and my Father-in-law. We will probably go somewhere to ride the bikes, and then the boys requested to go out to Red Lobster to eat dinner. So we will go out with my FIL and have the waiters sing to the boys. I need to go wrap their presents now before go to bed. I will post pictures of the birthday boys tomorrow!

Valentine's Day Party

Today was our Valentine's Day party for our playgroup. We went to Chuck E. Cheese and the boys had a blast! We got to visit with a friend that we haven't seen in a long time which was nice too. We carpooled with with one of our friends and the boys got to ride in their mini van, and I got to drive. This made me really want to get a mini van, even though I know that is not going to happen for a long time if ever (since my husband HATES them). Anyway, this week is crazy with Valentines Day parties at their school and the boys birthday on Sunday and their Birthday party on Monday! I can't believe my boys are going to be FOUR years old already!! It really feels like only yesterday that I was pregnant with them. I will download pictures of today later on and post them, but laundry is calling my name!

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:)