Oh the Christmas Tree!

I am so bad, I forgot all the fun we had last Saturday putting up decorations and the tree. Danny was not very interested, JUST WANTED TO PUT THE TREE SKIRT AROUND THE TREE. Do Not really know why, but could care less about orniments.

Kids did a great job decorating the tree and not knocking it over during all of there fights!!

You know the whole Santa is watching you? Does it work for your kids??? I do have to say, the stockings were hung by the chimney with much care!!!!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!

Seem to be the song of the day in our house today!!! My kids were so excited to wake up to White all over the ground!! They love this. First breakfast, then snow. Of course Danny grew out of all his coverall's and boots this year, so him and I had to make a Wal mart run first thing. Dan and the girls went out to get a start on the snow blowing!

Then off to the little hill by our house, only to come home for a rest and dry up the cloths, only to find out that our event to Grants farm was canceled due to snow. Grants farm closed today so to save the day Dan made a quick phone call and off to meet up with Uncle Pat, Ryan and Carly for some real down hill snow sledding!!! Dan even went to about 8 stores to find each of our kids a sled of there own.

He was by far the "Best Dad on Earth" today to those 3.

Only to finish there day, the got to have a sleepover at Ryan and Carly's, they will sleep well tonight. Dan already is!!!!!

Count down to Christmas!!

Okay, enough with the illnesses already!! We made it through Emily's flu bug, then Danny's last Friday. Monday and Tuesday night Emily last preschool performance :( I am so sad. She did a great job, she is blessed with Grandmas Denise's beautiful singing voice! A voice only the parents and grandparents could truly appreciate!! He He just kidding. Wednesday is when it hit me, oh no not the 12 hour flu bug, but 102 fever. I had to cancel Bailey's girl scout holiday party cause by 6 pm I will out with the fever. By Thursday night Dan took me to the Urgent Care, and I was blessed with yet another round of bronchitis this year and an infection in my lungs. Yeah, 10 days of steroids, meds and and inhaler!! Look our winter storm I need breathing room (no serious, breathing is tough with this crap!)

So anyway, I had to miss my work Christmas Brunch on Friday and miss a whole shopping day to finish up before next week arrives.

Please pray for no more illness in this house!!!!!!!
Happy last munite shopping to all!

The count down is on!

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lets play catch up !

Okay, seems to be my going rate here. A month between each post. Well, lets get caught up here. In November: 11/9-11th Bailey and I went on a Girl Scout Mother/ Daughter weekend to Trout Lodge. It was a weekend FULL of adventure! Bailey spent the weekend in trouble most of the time, but I hope since then we have worked through her issues. She got to do the rock climbing wall (which she LOVED) and did great at. She made it to the top in no time flat.

When we got home, we received some bad news that Dan's Uncle and Godfather had passed away. We were very sad.

Then Emily and I celebrated our Thanksgiving Feast at preschool! Very fun.

We had Thanksgiving with Mom and Dad and then off to the Lake we all headed. Gene and Marie invited us to stay with them this year at her Mom's house and we went and did our morning after Thanksgiving shopping! I really struggled. I stayed up till 2:30 AM with Dan, Dan, and Uncle Gene just laughing our butts off, only to get right back up at 4:30 am to head out shopping! Got some good deals and a great jump start on the shopping though!!!

After that weekend, we headed back for the stretch before winter break: We watched the Tigers get there bottoms beat with Pat and Carol & Kids, and Matt and Taunya & kids and had a nice relaxing evening!- Which let Carol to call me Martha Stewart- I still can not decide if she was being mean or nice- watch out Carol- Santa is watching you!!! HE he, just kidding, she was being very nice. (I think)

We had Brunch with Santa at Norwood on that Sunday morning! The kids had a blast!!!! Lots of face and body painting, lots of balloon animals, and a real REINDEER! Bo jingles, he crash landed at Norwood and broke one of his antlers. The kids are really into "Is this the REAL Santa, or is this one of the helpers?" We told them the Santa at the mall is the REAL one (my reason was that he had a real beard, and he was the first one we had seen this season) so all the Santa's with fake beards are his helpers. (Bailey feels his beard as he is talking to her and she knows the fake ones)

So on : Emily got the stomach flu that Wednesday morning (11/28) so I had to do some heavy duty cleaning! Danny got it then this Thursday night into Friday morning. He got up at 12:45 am to tell me he had a puke accident in his bed, he and I were up all night that night, poor guy go it bad!

He then could not go to the Winter Wonderland party at his and Bailey's school. It is a huge fundraiser they through every year. Pancake dinner, crafts, games, raffle baskets,and so on... Well, I am on the PTC board so it was a must that I was there, and well, I made it AFTER Dan got home from work. I felt really bad not to be more help but what is a MOM to do????

I promise to keep better posted (well at least I will try)