Merry Christmas

As this Christmas Day nears an end, I thought I better post a few pictures. We had a nice Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We departed from our normal holiday routine and stayed at our own house for Christmas Eve, something Cowboy and I haven't done as a married couple. We figured Paige was entitled to wake up in her own bed on Christmas morning once. My parents braved the weather and came over on Christmas Eve and we went to mass, and then had a wonderful shrimp supper. Then came the presents. It was a good thing Gramma came over, because the present level quadrupled when she came!

One of Paige's presents she was so excited about; a new princess dress!

Opening up presents from Santa; all smiles. I asked her later in the morning if Santa did a good job. She said, "Santa did a good job." We all slept in this morning which was needed after the late night. Paige slept until after 8:30 and I was walking around the house waiting for her to wake up. The funny thing about her and presents is she only wants to open a few and play with those; she doesn't care if there are a few more remaining. So this morning she played with some stuff; and then opened the remaing 2 an hour later. She also just likes to tear the paper off and look at the box--if its a generic box she thinks that's the present!

Our family gift was a Wii and it has been a lot of fun today keeping us enterained while we wait out the blizzard that is still raging outside. Cowboy got a big game hunting game, complete with gun, and has spent a good chunk of today attempting to master it.

Paige and I attempted some MarioKart this morning; and she did a pretty good job. Mom has to assist with some steering, but for her first attempts she did well. I image in a few years she will be better than Mom or Dad; all kids seem to be that way with video games. Note the big pink castle; that was from Santa and has been a big hit today.



We had a wonderful Christmas despite the blizzard that has shut down the state. We won't be able to go see some family tomorrow like our plan was; but hopefully we'll be able to catch up with them in a weekend or two.

On the 8th day of Christmas

On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to meeeee. . . .a bathroom where the toilet tank is emptyyyyyy. So. I come home after getting groceries, etc. and find out there is no water at all in our house because the handyman Cowboy has it shut off so he can fix the leaking messed up shower. Our old house does not have a separate bathroom shutoff valve. Its the whole house has water, or none of it has water. So there goes dishes, laundry, etc. tonight while he is working on the shower. Oh well. Bad side of this, Paige and I have to use the bathroom every 10 minutes! Think we are road tripping to Gramma's to use her tub tonight. . .

9th day of Christmas

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to meee. . .a movie date with his favorite little ladyyyyy. We are all going to the movie tonight--I don't want to do anything and want to rest; so why not at the theatre where the temptations of laundry and dusting aren't even there?

Paige quote of the day:

"Paige, look, Mom's owie (?) is gone on my lip (referring to my lovely cold sore)"

She scopes out my face and is happy to see its gone. She analyzes and saids, "How's your chicken pox?"

"I don't have chicken pox anymore." I had them about 2 months ago. As an adult. How fun.

Then I look in the mirror and see the huge zit she would think is a 'pox'. Wonderful.

3 year old wisdom

"So I heard you had a nap today at Kim's house (daycare)," I say as we are taking our coats off at home yesterday.

Big blue eyes turn and look at me.

"Mom, how do you hear me at Kim's house when you are at work?"

Note to self, use proper verbs when speaking to a 3 year old who takes everything literally.

On the 10th day of Christmas. . .

On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me. . .gift wrapped presents under the tree-eee. (If you sing it, it rhymes.)

The beauty being we had only 3 presents under the tree, and he came home disgusted that the massive pile of Target bags hadn't wrapped themselves. So he went through the stack and is in the living room right now wrapping presents. This is not a normal occurance at our home that he wraps the gifts. He secludes himself to wrap mine; and that's it. I just finished up Christmas cards; so we are officially in Christmas prep at our home.

The downside of Christmas fast approaching is our household is trying to get over some colds. I stayed home today with my head cold; and Paige is almost over hers. Cowboy, of course, is never sick. The good thing is since we are all feeling poorly this week, we'll be healthy in time for Christmas!

Happy Anniversary!

Wow, what 29 years does to people!

I hope you guys had a great day yesterday and glad you still

like each other after all those years :)

I love you.

Favorite things

When we unpack all the ornaments its amazing how a few will transport you back and how a few are more special than others. This is my favorite Christmas ornament. Its my first Christmas ornament when I was a baby. The beautiful baby is me :) Its always the first ornament to be put on the tree and it has its 'spot' right on the front, two thirds of the way up. My mom offered to give me my ornament this year as we helped her decorate her tree; but it seemed wrong. It still belongs on her tree. My favorite ornaments are still on her tree, the ornaments I remember unpacking for all those years. Our tree at our house is starting to get some favorites, currently they are Disney characters, but that's what my favorite person is into right now. Belle was the new ornament this year. She was a hit.

Speaking of favorites, Miss Paige has another one. Its Mickey Mouse pancakes. Gramma Shelly; this is what they are supposed to look like :) I'm told yours weren't like mine. Thought I'd be courteous and show you the secret! (Put the chocolate chips on last--not in the batter) Too bad she likes to eat the chocolate chips first and then only eats a little bit of pancake.