That's A Wrap

The last day of 2011...and we are about to head to bed. We're exciting people. We've had a great year though. A few highlights:

• Jon's promotion





• Quitting our second jobs





• Our trip to Cancun - sans children





• Uncle Tom came home





• the Gin Blossoms concert (Jon made me say that)

God truly has blessed us this year....and I don't care how cliche that sounds because it's true.

Sleeping Bags

Our very sweet neighbor (whom we just love) brought the kids over a little gift this afternoon. She got them each a little pillow pet type sleeping bag. Charley got a dog, Justus a bear, and Matthias a monkey. They loved them!! They each laid out on the floor with them this evening to watch Toy Story.

Dinner

This evening my sweet husband brought home pizza...well he actually had it delivered. I guess he didn't realize I was starting my diet today : ).

Who's That Girl?

Today I decided I wanted to straighten Charley's hair...and she actually let me. It didn't take that long...and she sat still almost the whole time. It's funny to me how she looks like a completely different girl when I straighten her hair. She loses her spunk.

Ick

Today has been spent mostly sleeping. I haven't felt the greatest the past couple of days. I couldn't sleep last night because I was up coughing. At around 1230 I finally moved out to the living room because I felt bad coughing so much and didn't want to keep Jonathan up. I took some cough medicine but it didn't really do much. I finally fell asleep around 130ish, but kept waking up either coughing or sweating. The kids finally woke me up at 7...I was almost relieved. Jon got up at 730 and let me go lay in our room. I slept until 10. I got up, ate lunch and then laid back down until 2. I then moved out to the living room where I dozed off on the couch around 4. I'm pretty wiped out still and looking forward to bedtime.

Leapster

For Christmas one of the boys' gifts was a Leapster 2. They each got one. Justus loves his! He loves playing it. We love the fact that the games are educational, so it's a win/win.

Christmas

Today has been pretty eventful. The kids were up by 630...after having gotten to bed pretty late for them (930/10). I was kind of surprised they were up so early. They were ready to open gifts though. We got up and opened presents, let the kids play, and then ate some breakfast. We put the kids down for nap a little early and then when Jon's dad and sister arrived we opened more presents and then headed to lunch at TGI Friday's. I just wasn't in the mood to cook. We got home and let the kids play. They are now in bed....which is a good thing. They all had little to no nap and were very tired. Hope everyone had a great day celebrating Jesus' birth with family and friends!!