december 30, 2012- january 5, 2013

December 30- Look at the fun snow. Ick.

December 31- Kathy with her homemade ugly sweater! Happy New Year!!

January 1, 2013- Our lovely new quilt from my mom. So warm and cozy. We love it!!

January 2- Looks like a squirrel took a slip and slide on the garage roof.

January 3- Seriously?? Way too cold to be up.

January 4- Happy mail for me!! Pictures to catch up with my Project Life 2012 album!!

January 5- Grandpa came out to visit us. The kids were quite happy!!

december 23- december 29

December 23- The computers upstairs  were elfed!!

December 24- This is the message that was left on the chalkboard for the kids.

December 25- The elves stole my camera and took a bunch of pictures. Looks like Santa took this one.

December 26- The aftermath of Christmas morning waiting to go to the garage for trash day.

December 27- Kids playing in the playroom with their new toys.

December 28- Played a couple of games of Sorry with Alex. He won both due to him changing the rules on me all the time.

December 29- Alex, Kira and friends playing in the snow building a snow tunnel.

december 9- december 15

December 9- Each of the kids got the new Pokedex that came out. Looks like they were a bit hit!!

December 10- Alex was not at all happy about their location today. He likes when they DO something. Not just sit. High expectations on these elves!!

December 11- The elves TP'd the kids rooms as well as the hallway to the playroom! Naughty elves.

December 12- The drew mustaches on Kira's pictures upstairs. So funny if you weren't Kira.

December 13- They left the kids candy canes to put on their trees. Alex also received a great award!!

December 14- Looks like it snowed in the family room overnight.

December 15- Avengers versus the elves. What a mess they left behind!!

march 1- march 5

March 1- Well look at that, winter decided to stop in and mess up our plans to drive to Syracuse for the weekend. Looks like a foot of snow to me. Our poor tree bending because of the weight. Not gonna miss that when we take it down.

March 2- Driving to Syracuse and eating at Burger King for lunch. Look at that pretty princess! Such a goof.

March 3- Eating dinner at Tully's in Fairmount. That is Alex's hand reaching into our first helping of popcorn (we ended up having three).

March 3- This will be the main picture for that day. The above one will be an extra I squeeze into a smaller spot on the week. Great picture of the gang.

March 4- Driving home from Syracuse. Alex playing his DS and getting help with the game with his new book. He saw the camera and made his cheesy grin. So funny.

March 5- At the library while Kira is in Girl Scouts. Alex spent some time tracing/ drawing Pokemon characters. He's so serious when he is drawing.

february 8- february 11

February 8- Alex had a small battle with a sign pole at the elementary school at pick up time. Looks like the pole got the better of him. He also had a small cut on his chin. The spot is now a lovely shade of purple/ black. Poor kiddo.

February 9- My new and improved corner cabinet storage. I think I have finally gotten it to a usable space! It only took me almost 12 years.

February 10- Alex at Walmart trying to wave me over to the cupcake case. I was trying to get deli meat so he had to wait. That is definitely not something he does well.

February 11- Pancake breakfast at the elementary school for the chorus and band field trip. Pretty good pancakes and the service was great!! The kids got to the be servers for everyone who came. Wonderful group of kids.

 No snow today like was predicted. Not that I am complaining. This winter has been pretty decent weather wise. Especially since my front tires are so sad and pathetic. I cannot wait to get them changed in a couple weeks.

january 21- january 26

Catching up with my pictures!! 

January 21- Kira loves these cookies. I haven't made them in a couple years but she asked so nicely so I did. She has been slowly gobbling them up.

January 22- I took the kids out to play in the snow. Totally out of character for me as I am a total hibernating kind of gal but these kids- they cannot get enough of the snow. Maybe they are not really my kids?

January 23- We hung out at the library while Kira had her Girl Scout meeting. Alex simply loves this toucan when he is there. I thought he deserved a place of honor in our Project Life this year.

January 24- My silly silly little girl. We were finishing up dinner (Alex had already run away) and she decided she would like a 'milkshake'. More like a cup full of bubbles! What a face!

January 25- Me and my little guy at lunchtime. Kira didn't want her picture taken so I took mine and Alex's.

January 26- My daughter. As much as I love her, I question her sense sometimes. She took her snow boots and stood and walked through the rather large puddles at the school one day. Then she came home with sneakers on but no socks as her feet were SOAKED from recess. Not only were her socks and feet wet but her snow boots were drenched. Seriously, they were dripping water out of the bag she carries them in. I have no clue how to dry them out so we improvised today and she is wearing my duck feet from 1988 or so. The good part is that they are still in great shape and they almost fit her feet. At least her feet were dry today for recess.

 The end of the month is coming. I hope to get the pictures developed and my journaling done, I want to share some Project Life pages and not just my POTD's!!

january 17- january 20

January 17- When hubby goes out of town, the kiddos come and spend the night with me. One sleeps in the bed, one gets the air mattress. This night it was Alex's turn for the air mattress. He looks so small in it.

January 18- I tried to take the kids out to dinner at Friendly's in Exeter- only to find out it has closed. Man were the kids bummed. Kira even mentioned that their name is FRIENDLY'S and closing down is not very friendly at all. We then had a quick economics lesson which she totally didn't understand and tried to blame it on Texas Roadhouse. So funny. Anywho, we ended up in Portsmouth at TGI Fridays. For dessert we had their Oreo Madness. Not exactly the same as create your own sundae, but it was good.

January 19- Sitting in the van waiting for Kira to come out from chorus and it starts snowing! It was so cold Alex and I waited inside for her. It was warmer!

January 20- Open Gym at the Rec Center. Alex was hiding under one of the structures they set up. So stinking cute!! There were three kids there on Friday- Alex, a girl who was 19 months and a boy who was 14 months. But he had fun.

Bring on this week. I think we are ready for it now that daddy is back home from his conference.

january 13 through january 16

Keeping up with these pictures!! So happy for me. Of course these are my raw uncropped and fixed pictures but they are here!!

January 13- hubby doing the snow blower since we had a two hour delay. The day before we got the snow (was not supposed to be this much) and it was supposed to rain and get to 40. Nope... by the time the rain came it was below freezing so that made the driveway covered in snow now also covered in ice! Man oh man. My wonderful hubby cleared me a spot to pull my van into to get the kids. Did I park there? Nope, put it in the snow and got myself good and stuck! I need new tires in a bad way. Got out and got Kira and Maggie to school.

January 14- We took the kids to see Beauty and the Beast 3D. It is my all time favorite Disney movie. We have seen the play three times. Once in Toronto, once in Boston and once in a local production in Syracuse. I cry every time I see it. Play, movie, video whatever. I cry. Saturday was no different. I do have to give props to my hubby for actually wearing his shirt to the movies considering it was around 20 degrees out! I guess he really does love me! LOL

January 15- Speaking of love... nothing says I love you more than a faucet that does not drip. Ours was on its last legs. Really it would not stop dripping no matter which way you turned the little handle. It was beyond tightening the screw inside the handle. It was time for a new one. Thank goodness we had bought one a few months ago.

I went to a birthday party with Alex for one of his school friends and my fabulous wonderful amazing hubby switched out the faucet for me! oh my goodness. So darn happy. If you knew our house, you would understand that any project we start, usually ends up with one of us having to go to the local hardware store for something to repair a previously messed up fix from the previous homeowner. But since we had installed the sink... it went pretty darn easy. The hardest part for him was getting the old one off. He had to find the directions for it and then figured it out. Isn't it purty??

January 16- Jammie day for both kids. Seems to be many jammie days during the winter around here. This was at one point when they were attached to their DS's (Kira was looking up something on her game on the computer) Happy to say, they did not spend their entire day off with electronics. They were actually pretty darn good today considering they were together since Saturday!!

Wondering what this week will bring. Looking forward to finding out!

january 3 through january 7

Okay, I need to work on getting the pictures off my camera and posted. I'll get there. And really these are the ones from the end of Project Life 2011 so I guess I can cut myself some slack. ;)

January 3- shopping at Walmart without kids. Always a good thing as I can get done quicker which is always good when you have to go to the vortex.

January 4- Alex running around outside at PM pick up. He totally loves to run all around instead of going inside to wait WHERE IT IS WARM!! Good thing he lets me bundle him up!!

January 5- This is the mess from me working on my Project Life 2011. I was doing the journaling on all the pictures that I uploaded to York. That way once the pictures get here, I can slap them in and call 2011 done!! Go me.

January 6- Look at that. We got some snow. And by some I mean it was totally gone by noon once the sun came out. But it was snow and the kids were happy. Strange winter around here.

January 7- Christmas is all packed and ready to go back to the garage. And this is not all my totes. Some were already downstairs when I took the picture. But Christmas next year will be different- in a good way but different. I am already looking forward to it.

So now here I am all ready for Project Life 2012! Bring it on. Guess that means I should get my binder set up. Oh there's time... it is only the 9th of January!! :)