Christmas Early

I am definately excited about Christmas this year. I love seeing the snow falling outside. Not that snow has anything to do with Christmas but I always love it when there is snow on the ground for Christmas. 

Last weekend Christmas came early! We went to visit my parents and had an early Christmas celebration. It was a really positive time and fun. My step mom arranged an activity for all the kiddos and the dads to do together. She took kitchen towels and ironed on pictures of little kiddos on them. Each kid got a towel to decorate and the dads got to help them. Then they presented them to us. It was really sweet and thoughtful. The kids really enjoyed it and all the mommies got a chance to visit with each other which was fun. 

Just before we opened presents one of the grand kids read the Christmas story and then we talked about why we give presents at Christmas time. It was cute to hear the kids answer the questions. It was such a positive way to go into opening gifts. :)

I was really excited for celebrating Christmas with my family this year. Our family is a combined family. My parents got married when I was 12. We have not always been the happy family. We certainly have our issues but I have seen God come in and start to bring healing, break down walls, and reconnect my family. I think this is one of the main reasons why I feel so filled this Christmas because there is nothing like seeing God at work. I am also excited because I believe that it's just the beginning. I know that there is more work to be done and I have hope that God will do miraculous things. 

NOT ME MONDAYS!!

When my hubby gives me an opportunity to go rent a movie by myself and choose one of my liking I would never ever consider renting the movie TINKERBELL and making him watch it with us... nope not me. 

I would never go to the bank drive thru and then drive away with the tube. What kind of crazy woman would take the bank canister with her. I would never do that while talking on my cell phone either. 

I would never let Brody cry or scream like crazy in his high chair so that I could try to get through my emails quick. What kind of horrible mom would I be if left my kid like that. 

I would NEVER EVER consider giving someone a gift that somebody else gave me. Regifting is just awful and cheap and I would never be as cheap to give away something that somebody gave me. Even if I did think that it was better fit for that other person. Nope I just wouldn't do that. 

AND I Would never leave out the NOT ME MONDAYS button just because I am clueless and have no idea had to do the buttons and I would never be so lazy as to not even attempt to try to figure it out. NOPE NOT ME

Thank You!

I just told you all about my darling friend Sarah at SassyFrazz, well I need to Thank her for awarding me the Butterfly award! Sarah thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. Sarah's blog is so fun to read and visit. She always has fun hilarious stories, reviews, and giveaways! 

I also want to thank Miss Sassy for the Ipod shuffle that I won. That was a GREAT giveaway! Wahoo... I should have thanked you sooner. Thank you so much.

Now for the butterfly award... I would like to pass this award onto my MOM. My mom is a truck driver and writes about her experience driving cross country! Love you Mom.

Warning: This post may be slightly over exaggerated, and contain dramatic material!

You know you are tired when:

your eyes hurt so bad you feel like they might pop out of your head

when waiting for anything gets you so crabby you feel like screaming or just giving someone a dirty look. (Like just being in line a Target which is something that every normal person does and really isn't a big deal)

you feel as though you don't even understand what it means to be rational and wonder if you will ever get back there. 

When your child throws food on the floor and you feel like picking the food up and stuffing him with it like a Thanksgiving turkey.

the thought of making lunch or dinner makes you want to cry.

(which I pulled myself up by my boot straps and already made lunch and dinner is in the crock pot. PRAISE the LORD for crock pots... )

you can't prioritize anything that you need to do because you can't think straight. ( ex: son is napping, go nap - instead blogging!!! I promise I am going right after this.)

you can't stand yourself because your moody and crabby from being tired and that makes you more crabby. (seriously)

when someone calls the thought of picking up the phone exhausts you.

it's somehow easier to blog and complain then it is to take a nap.  

In case you were wondering

So the last month my blogging has been sporadic and at times non existent. I have been doing pretty good this week but I just wanted to share with you all what I have been up to. This fall I did a promotion for JR Photography and I had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into. :) I booked 10 shoots for the promotion but I had an additional two outside of the promotion, so in the last 4 1/2 weeks I have had 12 photoshoots!! WHEW!! So if you want to see what I have been up to you can check it here.

Cyber BABY SHOWER!!

Seriously a CYBER baby shower! What's next? What an amazing and fun idea. Words can not express how much I am blessed to have my wonderful girlfriend Sarah over at Sassyfrazz in my life. Sarah is expecting baby #4 and we can all celebrate with her by checking out her cyber baby shower and participate in shower games and door prizes!! Wahooo! I love a good party! ;)

Ok. So for the party games. The first game is to enter the sweetest picture of Daddy with their new baby! Well my wonderful talented friend Melissa took this beautiful picture of my husband and my son. My husband is beaming with pride as he is holding our darling boy and I love that Brodes is looking up at his daddy! I hope you love it as much as I do! :)

The second game is to guess the birth weight of Sarah's second son. 

My guess would have to be 8lbs 10oz. ( I am sure I have the stats somewhere but I figured it wouldn't be fair to look them up.) :)

The third game is to make something out of playdoh! I don't have any playdoh around. Maybe in about a year I will but not right now. I will pass but thanks for all the fun games!! :)

Elvis was riding in the backseat of my car today!

Yep you read it right. Elvis, the King is alive! Today I got a wild hair and decided that I would listen to the soft rock station rather then the Christian station. So Elvis was on singing  Blue Christmas. Have you ever heard that song? Very 1950's with all the oooohhh, and the awwww's... do you understand what I am saying? That is when I heard the singing coming from the back seat. Soft whispers almost, oooohhh and awww's. Very much out of tune and very much singing. I wonder if I will have an Elvis impersonator in the family when I get older?? :) Hahaha.. It was the cutest thing to hear my little boy trying to sing. :)